Tuesday, May 20, 2008

International Space Station Sighting For Tuesday

This is for Columbia, but Camden should be very, very close:

Tuesday, May 20 at 10:18pm
visible for 3 minutes
maximum elevation 45 degrees above the horizon
approaching from 10 degrees above WSW
departing 43 degrees above NNWThis overpass should be very visible if the nighttime skies are clear. There are other opportunities for the next few days and I will be adding some later.

Pick out the correct compass orientation and look for a very bright light moving through the sky. The ISS is approximately 230 miles up and travels at 17,500mph so it is not like looking at a passing airplane.

[update] Interestingly the ISS is viewable at my house at exactly the same time (although Central time), but it will be almost directly overhead. The space station travels in a continually changing elliptical orbit so the directions here will be different from the Columbia directions. Here in a couple of days I'll post a screenshot of just how the orbit looks.

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