Space Station Spotting
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+ | 8:38pm, 5 minutes, 29deg max elevation. a beautiful sighting | ||
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The International Space Station (ISS) is a manned research space facility that is being assembled in orbit around the Earth.
It's orbit is about 220 miles above the Earth. It is easily visible when it passes overhead a just before sunrise or just after sunset.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Space_Station
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Sighting opportunities
http://esa.heavens-above.com/esa/iss_step1.asp
http://esa.heavens-above.com/esa/iss_step1_3.asp?CountryID=US
http://spaceflight1.nasa.gov/realdata/sightings/cities/skywatch.cgi?country=United+States
Journal
August 2, 2007
9:00pm, 5 minutes, 55deg max elevation. another beautiful sighting!
August 1, 2007
8:38pm, 5 minutes, 29deg max elevation. a beautiful sighting
December 15, 2006
This looked like a perfect sighting opportunity, but, a storm is coming in and cloud cover was 100%.
December 14, 2006
Used the sky chart from ESA. I was a little late picking up the station but it followed the track on the chart and disappeared right one time. A nice sighting, low along the southern sky.
December 09, 2006
Very nice sighting this morning. Appeared low in the Southwest at 5:48am, moving toward the south behind low clouds.
December 08, 2006
I missed seeing the station this morning (5:24am) but did see another meteorite, trajectory straight down, to the west of my location.
December 06, 2006
Very pretty this morning. Rose in the NW at 6:12am close to the almost full moon. Crossed almost right overhead.
December 05, 2006
Great transit this morning starting at 5:48am reaching a max elevation of 32 degrees. Also saw two meteorites; very fast moving straight down towards and near the northern horizon.