Brisbane's autumn skies are often clear and really good for early evening satellite spotting.
As I left work a couple of nights ago, I looked up to see what I could see with the good view I had to the west, and saw what looked like a pretty bright satellite moving in such a way that I thought there was a good chance it was the International Space station. I turned on my phone and said "OK Google, ISS sightings for Brisbane Australia", and in a flash, information from a NASA website showed it was indeed the space station.
This is the undeniably cool side of near instantaneous information from the internet.
I am not sure that it makes up for the creation of a self supporting community of idiocy that the internet also enables. It should, but gee at times I have my doubts.
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I saw a shooting star not long ago. Instead of streaking across it was headed straight down. It burned up with a triangle head. It was about 3.00 am in the morning. It must have been a big rock since it didn't burn up until it was quite near the ground. Must have been about a month ago. It must have burnt up somewhere around Dharawal National Park. It was a big one.
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