standard time
Nov. 7th, 2009 07:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
astroaztecBeing back on standard time after Halloween means that there is less urgency to get out trick or treating early. The girls were trolling the neighborhood until after 21:00 because of their late start. As a result they were declared the final visitors to several houses, and they received the entire remaining stash of candy. I'm glad the new dates for the daylight shift didn't happen until the girls were old enough to mange the lateness. I'm not sure that anyone can handle the amount of sugar they hauled in.
Being back on standard time also means seeing the space station earlier. Tonite as we arrived for an evening of gymnastics I looked up and saw something so bright that it could only be ISS heading over. I imagined out loud what it would be like to see a fleet of ships of similar brightness passing overhead. As the girls exercise I ponder that even more.
The ISS cannot quite reach magnitude -4, not quite able to match Venus at its brightest. But the ISS is a very sparse structure. It's less than 100 m across no matter how it's measured, and it's sparse. The entire ISS would fit inside the saucer section of the original starship USS Enterprise. It's daunting to imagine looking up and seeing structures of that size in orbit. It's awesome to imagine what the sky would look like with space elevators extending to and beyond geosync.
Being back on standard time also means seeing the space station earlier. Tonite as we arrived for an evening of gymnastics I looked up and saw something so bright that it could only be ISS heading over. I imagined out loud what it would be like to see a fleet of ships of similar brightness passing overhead. As the girls exercise I ponder that even more.
The ISS cannot quite reach magnitude -4, not quite able to match Venus at its brightest. But the ISS is a very sparse structure. It's less than 100 m across no matter how it's measured, and it's sparse. The entire ISS would fit inside the saucer section of the original starship USS Enterprise. It's daunting to imagine looking up and seeing structures of that size in orbit. It's awesome to imagine what the sky would look like with space elevators extending to and beyond geosync.
