Heavenly Palace

My sympathies that you haven't been able to get away from urban light pollution more.

But I don't believe you actually saw that many stars as a kid, or ever, by naked eye. That photo goes beyond visual magnitudes.

 

i was probably in the planetarium.

 

The best I saw, we were over at Long Beach, on the west coast of Vancouver Island. It was a moonless night, and the resort we were at mercifully had no lights on (over the years that's worsened ). I managed to wake myself up around 2:30 am. My wife had agreed to a stargazing walk earlier, but at 2:30 said no way.

Anyway, stumbled down to the beach, and man what a view: first time I'd clearly seen the milky way, one or two meteors too, IIRC . Wife finally did get up to see, was really worth it. Someone's beach fire remnants was still glowing, like a darkroom safelight.

 

Aerospace's re-entry central prediction is offshore Chile at 00:30 UTC. After nightfall there. Sparsely populated (far south of Santiago) but debris sightings are certainly possible.

Interesting (to me) this is near Chiloe Island where Chas. Darwin walked through a real old-growth forest, with dead wood laying about in every stage of decay. He hated it

 

Beijing is having 'passover' right now, TG-1 about 118 km above.

 

oy vey

 

Too bad it stayed silent. The calls help pin down the species, plenty of recordings online.

 

Owls also 'answer' if you can make any sort of fake owl hoo-hooing.

 

i always mistake morning doves for owls.

 

mourning

 

thanks hkmb.

 

wounding 2 birds with one stone there eh?

 

A little TG-1 overshoot could put debris field in Pampas of Argentina. That might be findable.

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Owls are so slack in qualifying calls to respond to, that if you make mourning-dove sounds they might answer. Gotta get up before the chickens to play that game.

 

Per Aerospace, the final sinkage has just begun. Maybe maybe blow past S. Amer completely and fall in S. Atlantic.

 

zero chance for a north america landing?

 

Yep. Maybe maybe maybe 'stretch the glide' past Atlantic and Reach Ghana or nearby.

 

Late-night up lookers in Buenos Aires or Montevideo (Uruguay) might get to see sparkles.

 

Ooooh Aerospace stopped updating at their 00:30 prediction. Need real-time info!

 

Heav-Ab indicates it got past S. Amer. but they have not done best work updating their page