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."

Comments

ISS

[Bill Pela]

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!!!!

Re:ISS

[nightfire-unique]

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!

Well, now it will become visible to the other 90% of slashdot readers, whose eyes have long since been burned out by our noble CRTs. :)

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Yeah, and it's available directly from NASA

[gfilion]

Yeah, and it's available directly from NASA:

http://www.hq.nasa.gov/osf/station/viewing/issvi s. html

Also, little detail, it works...

GFK's

Track Man Made Objects in Space

[SubtleNuance]

Nasa provides this applet wich you can use to track your favorite man made object in space - including the doomed Iridum sats & Mir.

Straight from the source

[Auckerman]

The supplied link is slashdotted, so.... Link for all US cities times. (>1MB)

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")

here is another site...

[hitchhacker]

that ALSO runs IIS.
I hope it does better than the other one.
liftoff.msfc.nasa.gov/temp/StationLoc.html
cheers

Link to Previous /. story and Nasa Site

[ackthpt]

Article and Nasa (which does still work.)

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