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Keep An Eye Out For The ISS
DarrylM writes "With the solar panels installed, the ISS should be visible with the naked eye.Heavens-Above will tell you when the Station will be passing over your city as it orbits.It also tracks Mir, some satellites, and the Space Shuttle."
Even since Alpha acquired the Rus-hab module
its been very bright. It was brighter than
anything save for the sun, moon, and Venus.
Probably it will be brighter than Venus next week.
I've seen several times, some intentionally and
some accidentally.
Best visibility is an hour before sunrise or
after sunset. The orbit is inclined to reach over
the US and FSU, but it doesn't always go over
both every orbit. The axis of inclination precesses, so you only see it some the time. The further south you are, the more likely to get visible orbits.
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Try the combination of these sites instead: To get your GPS coordinates for your address: http://www.geocode.com/scripts/eagle/eagle.pl?cmd= td_i
Then plug the coordinates into the applet on this NASA site:
http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/sightings/ind ex.html
I've used it for my location and it's perfect! And what a pretty sight the ISS is, too. A little white dot moving across the sky at Mach-25 is just too cool.
I decided I'd take a look at what they have scheduled for the folks on the shuttle for the next few days. I found this site via NASA's ISS webpage. If you check out the official NASA itinerary for December 3rd (posted in a PDF file) you'll see that from 6:40am to 7:30am on that day, the shuttle crew has been scheduled for - in capitals - BREAKFART.
I'm not sure what to think, especially given that this event occurs shortly before the, "Toilet breakthrough indicator data collection".
Guess they're not as worried about air quality up there as I thought.
You should be able to see that even through some pretty severe light pollution.
I may not see it every Night. But I know I will see it. And I know a lot of people will see it.
Just the fact of people seeing it up there in the night will have a positive impact. This is because of something that the cynical might discount or might not have heard of.
This is the power of dreams. And seeing it up there leads to speculation and to dreaming about what might be.
Now of course, you might disrepect this.
But I have found that the ones who disrepect this notion are often the ones who have most often have been disrepected themselves.
Or sadly have had no dreams at all in the first place.
"It is a greater offense to steal men's labor, than their clothes"
If you'd like to know when you can see the ISS - when is the viewing window for your geographical location check out this NASA site. The possible 'locations' are naturally Yankee-cenric, but it works very well nonetheless.
... but the IIS got in the way.
Techie: Oh.. god.. no.
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This 'wing set' should brighten the ISS considerably. It IS already visible with
the 'naked or unassisted' eye, I've seen it
about 6 times so far!
And this visibility is only when the sun reflects
off of it, i.e. just after sundown/before sunup.
It looks WAY cool!!!!
Yeah, and it's available directly from NASA:
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http://www.hq.nasa.gov/osf/station/viewing/issv
Also, little detail, it works...
GFK's
Nasa provides this applet wich you can use to track your favorite man made object in space - including the doomed Iridum sats & Mir.
Link for all non US cities times. (>1MB)
If you want to look it up city by city use the following URL formula
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/osf/station/viewing/?.html
US: Where the ? is the first letter in your city name (lower case)
Outside US: Where the ? is first letter in your city name followed by the letter "f" (example for Moscow, the "?" is "mf")
Burn Hollywood Burn
that ALSO runs IIS.
I hope it does better than the other one.
liftoff.msfc.nasa.gov/temp/StationLoc.html
cheers
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