I have been reading Stephen Hawking's "The Universe in a Nutshell" (Bantam 2001, hardcover) borrowed from the town library.

On page 68 is an extraordinary image of Hubble/Shuttle overflying my part of north-west Australia. If you're interested you can see where I live at (hope this works) http://images.jsc.nasa.gov/images/pao/STS61/10093085.jpg

In the picture west is up, so rotate your monitor anti-clockwise 90 degrees for correct orientation. After which you may see me and the kids about in the middle of the bumpy east-west bit of coastline. (Guess is that in excess of 1,000km of coast is pictured.)

The shuttle is the Endeavor which I think is appropriate even if James Cook never came to this coast. But William Dampier and others did.

Thought my fellow ppruners might be interested. Any high-flying pics of where you live?

(If the link don't work, sorry to waste your time...the address is doubled checked though and ok.)

best wishes,
rainbow
;)

rainbow where I live now, SE London, is not particularly photogenic so I have found a satpic of where I grew up in E Kent, the Isle of Thanet (the waypoint known as TANET to those who fly in to LHR).

Here is the pic I found...the object that looks like a piece of road starting and stopping in the middle of nowhere just in the middle of the pic above the single curve beach visible (Pegwell Bay) is actually Manston airport - the longest runway still, I believe, in the UK!

Thanet from Space (http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/scripts/sseop/photo.pl?mission=ISS001&roll=E&frame=6039)

:D

Theres a site that you can download a picture of your house from ten thousand or five thousand feet, just by typing in your post code, if you live in the UK that is.
minimaps or something its called, will try and find URL again, facinating it is.

Found a site for Multimap - coverage seems to stop at Hadrians Wall though...seems the North/South divide is still at work ;)
Drat.....:(

It's www.getmapping.co.uk, TD - my house is clearly visible, if you know where I live, here (http://www2.getmapping.com/sorry.asp?method=showMapImageView&osEast=416786.2&osNorth=160402.7) .

There is also a book, by the same people, covering the whole of England - note not Scotland, Ireland or Wales, but excellent detail. I can pick out my house, route to work, where I fly, all sorts of stuff. Amazing to browse, but at £75 when on offer, and weighing some 10 - 15 lbs it's a bit of a handful. And it's called "England, The Photographic Atlas" ISBN 0-00-
712277-2.

[Edited to add stuff about atlas]

sno fair!!
seems that getmapping.co.uk discriminate against the Scots too:(

Thanks Mr Draper and what a great picture brockenspectre!

I see the runway but I dare say I should prefer to approach with a shallower glidepath to visit! Of interest also is the seascape; channels and tidal runs. Must have been a triffic place for a lad. Any fish? (We release more than we kill here these days..)

The land use; crops, dairy, wool or grazing or other?

best wishes,
rainbow

Edited to ask Nr Fairey where do you get all of that green grass?!! Can you swap for some faded yellow spinifex?

rainbow Thanks! It was a great place for this lass to grow up in (kind of tomboy in those days). The pic shows the area to be much more built up than it was back in the 60s when along with playing imaginary games of Romans vs Britons (yes, just along from Pegwell Bay towards the bottom of pic) is Richborough Castle where the Romans established a supply base for their invasion of Britannia (as they decided to call it!). The castle ruins are now walk roundable and you can even rent an audio tape!

Rock pools, swimming twice a day (with the tides), hanging out at the beach hut, riding bicycles along the seawall - marsh to one side and sea to other - to hunt frogspawn were all grist to one's mill as a child!

Thanet was highly agricultural too, cattle, sheep, wheat and veggies mostly but a lot of this land has been sold and where there were field paths are now housing estates dammit!

Kent as a whole is a brilliant County - most folks miss it as they head speedily for the Continent! Like East Sussex there is a wealth of history (Roman remains, Norman castles) and even the Lamberhurst vineyard!! It was also home to Britain's hop industry without which Britain's beers would not have developed, and the oast houses (where hops were dried in conical topped round buildings) are unique to this area.

I won't go on but you get the picture!

:D

Please forgive me brockenspectre, as soon as I sent I thought to myself.."self, you idiot, brockenspectre is likely a lady!"

Anyway, what a childhood...and I do get the picture..had one myself! Thanks for enlightening my morning. Seeya.:)

and I live here (http://www2.getmapping.com/sorry.asp?method=move&dir=Down&osEast=527818.1&osNorth=171097.6&cellid=1106134005005) although I still can't locate my house :)

I live in Ha Noi. So what CIA or Pentagon site do I hack into to get a pic of my house? :confused:

Slasher

If you go to this website:

NASA pics database (http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/sseop/)

you can search for both Hanoi and Vietnam...the latest series of the Red River Delta available were taken in September 2000!!

Hope this helps.

:D

You're a real angel brockenspectre and I might just have to marry you! :D Just when I was gettin' all despondent about not bein' able to show where I live, you come up with that great NASA web site!

So, for the edification of all - and with HUGE thanks to brockenspectre - this (http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/sseop/images/ESC/small/ISS004/ISS004-E-5809.JPG) is where I live! :eek:

The black snake thingy going across the image from left to right is the Barron river.
A train line can be seen next to it.
Part of the Coral Sea is in blue. [Current surface temp app 27deg C.]
The pink area is a golf course near the coast.
The red area is rainforest

And I’m somewhere in the white circle. :D


MyPlace (http://members.optusnet.com.au/~thesme/mypic9.gif)

Stunning image, sprocket. :cool:

Stoorie GetMapping (http://www.getmapping.com) seems to have Scotland. Well, it has a picture of my wee flat anyway.

I'm in the centre of Edinburgh (http://www2.getmapping.com/sorry.asp?method=move&dir=Up&osEast=325603.5&osNorth=673240.2&cellid=1999170004006), on the street that curves round in the middle of the image. I overlook the green-roofed building at the top of the picture, which is the ministerial headquarters of the Scottish Executive at St Andrew's House. The straight road running from left to right across the lower half of the picture is the Royal Mile; scroll left and you get Edinburgh Castle, scroll right and you get the Palace of Holyrood House and the construction site of the new Scottish Parliament. The big black square in the top left is Waverley station.

:)

Really must do some work now...

Wow! I've been in the Centre of Edinburgh ... it's really amazing that I never ran into ya ajamieson! :D

sprocket ... I KNOW where ya live, muhahahaha, and I can prove it! ;)

ajamieson
Tried again :(
They come up with my house number and street but no photo available:( - obviously not reached Perthshire yet.
Tried the Nasa one too:( - all I got was lots of water.....maybe its me :eek: :confused:

Well, not exactly live - just spend a lot of time there!


http://met.open.ac.uk/group/kaq/vipages/littlemarlow4.html

Well, I work somewhere in here.

Satellite view (http://www.terraserver.com/image.asp?x=-77.02885&y=38.87445&scale=13&theme=101&datetime=6/1/1996&zone=18&image_id={0B4D5025-6392-11D5-88E5-006008A61514})

ajamieson: It definitely isn’t a big city …. Nevertheless, it’s still a jungle out there. :)

OzEx: Ha, a likely story! Any way the Aero Club isn’t quite in the picture. Is that the POM runway in your pic? Think I could see a B200 doing aerobatics just off the end. :eek: :D

While we’re on the subject of where we live, I had had a query recently, about someone called Slassa or similar sounding name! :D I think that person might be a fellow Ppruner and I think one of his ex’s might be looking for him.
I was walking through a local park near a big tree (after dark) with a cask of the finest premium moselle under my arm … and I heard a noise from near the tree and then this, “Hssssst, hsssssst …….. hey .... hey white boy, you know airoplane bloke call’ Slassa?”
I looked over to see a scraggly figure of a woman staggering toward me.
I said. “ nooo!”
She said, ”You know ….. dat Slassa bloke, he ply big plane, he come an always puck me, an’ den he never kiss me! He tell me he lub me too an’ den he look at my sista all da time.”
I said “nup, don’t know him!”
She said, “You no lie me met! You see ‘im nex, you tell ‘im he gib me plaggon nex time or no bluddy puck, unstan’?”

So if you’re out there Slassa, you’re more than welcome to use my pic to point out one of your residences. :D

Unwell_Raptor: How did that chimney get bent in your pic? :eek:

OOh...I may have found me after all!here (http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/scripts/sseop/photo.pl?mission=STS009&roll=48&frame=3187)
Amazin what a bit of insomnia will do for you!:)
I'm at the bottom of the frame.
I'm surprised they managed to get a piccie with no cloud cover!

My Sandstrip (http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/scripts/sseop/photo.pl?mission=STS102&roll=712&frame=85)

Hope this works. :eek:

Here's a snap of me sipping a cold one on the verandah, while I watch the monkeys cavorting in the trees over the fence. You'll need a bloody big magnifying glass though... :D

The Kingdom of Unexpected Treasures... (http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/scripts/sseop/photo.pl?mission=STS073&roll=736&frame=54)

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Through difficulties to the cinema

Sprocket:

The chimney was built that way to make the fire draw more strongly and to prevent the pub filling with smoke.

The building is over 450 years old, so a lot of the building techniques are diferent from today's!

I took a bit of stick from my wife when I showed her the photo, because it has my car in it. She said that it would be hard to find a time when the car wasn't there.:eek:

Heres a satellite picy of Teeside for yer Brite @<hidden>



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:rolleyes:

sprocket ... it's next to impossible to get a landing clearance if ATC doesn't notice ya! :eek: :D

Now then, who might this "Slassa" bloke be? :p

can someone find my house????? pweaaseeeeee???????????

GUELPH.. ONTARIO.. CANADA

:D :D :D
fanks!!!!

Hi locky,
Couple of pages of options for you at

http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/results?st=1&page=1&query=ontario%20and%20canada

Good luck with your house. You really should put your things away properly so you know where to find them again.:D

Our planet is stunningly beautiful. :o

Absolutely cool! This is where I live:
http://www1.getmapping.com/business/frameset.html
which is Brockham in Surrey. Where I work is here:
http://www1.getmapping.com/business/frameset.html
which is..well you know

Locky

The problem is that you left your house is on the wrong side of Yonge Street (tracks) ???? :rolleyes:

Cheers