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Seeing the International Space Station?
Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2007 11:44 pm
by 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.
Posted: Tue Jul 24, 2007 5:35 am
by 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
Re: Seeing the International Space Station?
Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2007 5:43 am
by SittingDownMan
brbear1 wrote: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 wrote: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.