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On a Road Trip – to be a guest on @TWiT TV’s Coding 101 show this Friday at 2:30pm PT

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Following the nice review/mention of ISS-Above by Leo Laporte (The Tech Guy) on his show on Sunday Feb 2nd I have been invited to be a guest on a special episode of the Coding 101 show.   I’ll be driving the 400+ miles from Pasadena to Petaluma, CA in the morning which is where the TWiT.tv studios are located.

This will be a 30 minute show that is being “pre-taped” this Friday (14th March). The show is usually broadcast live each week on Thursday at 1:30pm PT but next weeks show (featuring ISS-Above) will actually be taped this Friday at around 2:30pm PT.

code1400_0The Coding 101 hosts, “Padre” (Fr. Robert Ballecer) and Shannon Morse, have featured projects with the Raspberry Pi platform before – so this is no stranger to the TWiT.TV studios. Padre will be grilling me on all aspects of the project and how I came to choose the Raspberry Pi platform and we’ll be going over the entire development process and launch through Kickstarter.

Even though we are just “taping” this show to be officially played out next week – you can actually “tune in” to the live “taping”. Just head to http://live.twit.tv/ shortly before 2:30PM on Friday and you should see all the shenanigans.

After this show Padre has also invited me to be on a little 10 minute segment of the Know How show.

Can’t get me enough of TWiT.TV!

ISS-Above at The Griffith Observatory – Monday 10th March

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Well… actually I am speaking and presenting the ISS-Above at the March 2014 monthly meeting of the Los Angeles Astronomical Association. The meeting is on Monday 10th from 8pm to 10pm at the Leonard Nimoy Event Horizon Theater. My presentation will be for 30 minutes.

Although the Griffith Observatory is closed on Mondays.. it is of course open for this meeting. When you arrive… just mention you are a friend of the presenter (that would be me of course).

See you there!

ISS-Above worldwide reach – is your country represented?

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Table showing the worldwide locations for the ISS-Above devices from the KickstarterThe recent Kickstarter for ISS-Above has devices heading to 17 countries around the world.  Is your country represented?

If not… you can still purchase one via the ISS-Above Kickstarter Grace Period Purchase option.

The furthest North is the one going to Sweden (Stockholm) which is at 59 degrees north.  Now.. as the ISS orbits between 56 degrees north and south it will never be directly overhead for that device.   But still… it will nevertheless be above their horizon very frequently and visible sometimes as well.

I am still waiting to hear back from 16 backers with their shipping address details – so there may still be additional countries.

@NASA_Johnson @VirtualAstro Very bright #ISS pass over UK Sun Feb 16 6:30pm. Every #issabove in UK will be going #craycray

ISS Visible Pass

 

 

If you live in the UK – just go outside and Look Up at  6:30pm on Sunday Feb 16th.   ISS will begin low in the W and go directly overhead at 6:34pm.

The numerous ISS-Above devices currently in the UK will be making a big fuss with their colourful displays to show how close the ISS is to you.

UK-Feb-16

 

Date: 16 February 2014
Orbit: 413 x 418 km, 51.7° (Epoch: 15 February)

 

Event Time Altitude Azimuth Distance (km) Brightness Sun altitude
Rises 18:29:04 0° 269° (W) 2,354 2.7 -11.7°
Reaches altitude 10° 18:31:10 10° 270° (W) 1,491 1.1 -12.1°
Maximum altitude 18:34:31 85° 358° (N) 421 -3.3 -12.6°
Enters shadow 18:36:25 24° 87° (E) 913 -2.2 -12.9°

All information provided by Heavens-Above.com

The Planetary Society Offices in Pasadena

ISS-Above at The Planetary Society

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I am very excited to announce that today I installed an ISS-Above at the offices of The Planetary Society in Pasadena.

The Planetary Society, founded in 1980 by Carl Sagan, Bruce Murray, and Louis Friedman, to inspire and involve the world’s public in space exploration through advocacy, projects, and education. Today, The Planetary Society is the largest and most influential public space organization group on Earth. Bill Nye The Science Guy is their CEO.

Here are some photos of the ISS-Above in their offices.

Look out for tweets coming from this ISS-Above!