Follow the ISS

Posted on February 6, 2014 by admin-gexynet

The third brightest object in the sky is the ISS – the International Space Station.
NASA has made a simple site that guides when to spot the ISS, depending on where on Earth you are located. Click on image below to find the guide.

Current location

You can see the station’s current position here.

Be sure to click the button “Snapshot” to open an extra map of the current ground area in a new window.

Some facts:

The ISS is maintained in a nearly circular orbit with a minimum mean altitude of 330 km (205 mi) and a maximum of 410 km (255 mi), in the centre of the Thermosphere, at an inclination of 51.6 degrees to Earth’s equator.
It travels at an average speed of 27,724 kilometres (17,227 mi) per hour, and completes 15.410 orbits per day

Andromeda

Posted on February 5, 2014 by admin-gexynet

To make things a bit brighter now: this is a picture I shared on Facebook, it said:
“If Andromeda were brighter, this would be how it would look in our night sky”.

(Origin geekation.com)

Quite nice indeed.

Andromeda actualSize

Deep Web – first steps

Posted on February 5, 2014 by admin-gexynet

The riddle of Cicada_3301 eventually lead me to the deep web, a place I have much heard about but never had the time to explore.

To get there I had to use the Tor network. In the beginning I thought to make it via some of my Windows7 installations, but after some consideration I decided to connect via Linux and my Ubuntu 13.04 partition.

After a few configurations and using the Tor Browser, I finally succeeded to connect and explore the Onion World. Some first screen-shots here: