Seeing the International Space Station?

[brbear1]

Is the bright object I see at dusk (approximately 8:30 PM CDT) in the south-southwest sky the International Space Station? I am located at latitude 35.66 north and longitude -89.2 west. The ISS is my best guess especially since the last shuttle mission added the additional large array of solar panels.

[BMAONE23]

if the object is in the same portion of the sky at the same time every night then it is most likely Venus (still quite visible in the daytime sky).

later in the evening Jupiter is in the SSW

If the object you see moves accross the sky over a period of a couple of minutes then it is likely the ISS

this link http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/si ... ted+States
will tell you when the ISS will pass over your head

[SittingDownMan]

Is the bright object I see at dusk (approximately 8:30 PM CDT) in the south-southwest sky the International Space Station? I am located at latitude 35.66 north and longitude -89.2 west. The ISS is my best guess especially since the last shuttle mission added the additional large array of solar panels.

if the object is in the same portion of the sky at the same time every night then it is most likely Venus (still quite visible in the daytime sky).

later in the evening Jupiter is in the SSW

If the object you see moves accross the sky over a period of a couple of minutes then it is likely the ISS

this link http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/si ... ted+States
will tell you when the ISS will pass over your head

If you got to:
http://www.heavens-above.com/main.aspx? ... ied&TZ=CET

you can pick ISS, or quite a few other little whizzies, like Iridium
Flares, and get *lots* of really cool information.

Your ISS page would be:
http://www.heavens-above.com/PassSummar ... t=0&tz=CET

and has 9 passes between 2 and 9 August. (of course, I've ignored
your timezone data. It's too early in the morning for me to work
out things like that.)

Heavens-above is a wonderful resource.

I'm not certain, but it's possible I found the website here, many,
many decades ago...
SDM.