ISS begins flybys over the USA

[guyver01]

http://spacefellowship.com/200...pace-station-marathon/

The International Space Station (ISS) is about to make a remarkable series of flybys over the United States. Beginning this 4th of July weekend, the station will appear once, twice, and sometimes three times a day for many days in a row. No matter where you live, you should have at least a few opportunities to see the biggest spaceship ever built.

Check NASA?s ISS Tracker for flyby times


http://spaceflight1.nasa.gov/realdata/sightings/

 

[BUTCH1]

Cool, they even have an app. on the website that tells you exactly when/where/what time in your area to spot it!..

 

[skyking]

I used the app, got my relative azimuth and range info, and then realized





It's F'n cloudy

 

[CptCrunch]

Nice, it will be over my head at 2242 tonight. I might go out and look for it

 

[BW86]

awesome i'll see if i can see it sometime tonight

 

[Unheard]

I talked to VA3CSA (for the uninformed that is a amateur radio callsign) aboard the ISS on field day 2 weeks ago. We made contact on its 3rd pass overhead.

 

[Spacehead]

Thanks for the heads up.
If i could get out tonight there are 5 passes over me between 10:45pm & 5:00am tomorrow morning. First & last passes are magnitude -3.5 & -3.4
Hope i don't have to work tomorrow


Over the next 10 days most of the passes for me aren't very high in altitude, 20 degrees or less.

An alternate site to calculate passes is http://www.heavens-above.com
You can set up several different observing sites.
It will also track alot of other objects for you too. I forgot about the "ISS tool bag", should of went out last night, it was just about naked eye.

 

[Unheard]

Check out SATSCAPE (http://www.satscape.co.uk/main/satscape.php) for tracking of orbital objects.

 

[ElFenix]

should be pretty good tonight if it's not cloudy. 5 minute pass and 77 degrees max elevation

 

[SonnyDaze]

Might be able to catch it tonight. It's raining today though.

 

[Damn Dirty Ape]

is this naked-eye spotting or ? I see it will be very near tonight at 2140-2146 cst, which of course will be a dark sky.

 

[funkymatt]

Nice, looks like we'll have to bust out the tasco.

 

[Damn Dirty Ape]

I got to see it! Wife thought it was so cool as did I. Thanks OP for the note.

/awesome.

 

[GagHalfrunt]

12:21 tonight and 11:09 tomorrow night, I'm going to try to catch it.

 

[zerocool84]

It should only be like a bright star right?

 

[Gothgar]

awesome!!!

 

[funkymatt]

just saw it fly over socal

 

[jEnus]

Cool, saw it tonight - was still light out enough where no stars could be seen, but still saw it.

 

[GagHalfrunt]

Saw it, about 3 minutes from first view til it faded out. Even here in the cloudy and light-polluted northeast it was bright and easy to spot.

 

[effowe]

Sweet, I just saw it in Chicago. I didn't think I would see much as there is a lot of light pollution, but I was able to see it clearly moving across the sky. It was brighter than I expected, and it was moving really quickly. I will be going out to watch it as much as I can now, thanks for the link :thumbsup:

 

[evident]

doesn't change that fact that you make some shitty posts

 

[zerocool84]

Originally posted by: funkymatt
just saw it fly over socal

What is there to see? I went outside and just see the usual amount of stars.

 

[Candymancan21]

Thanks for link, Acording to nasa, it will fly over at 3:56AM tomarow morning for me. So hopefully if it isnt cloudy i will get the chance to see it with my new 10" telescope.

 

[ProfJohn]

Originally posted by: zerocool84

Originally posted by: funkymatt
just saw it fly over socal

What is there to see? I went outside and just see the usual amount of stars.

It should look like a very bright moving star.

Saw a cell phone satellite last year and that was how it appeared. Flared really bright for a few seconds then slowly faded away. Pretty sure the ISS is even bigger so it should be easier to see. Just have to make sure you are facing the right directions because it happens within a few seconds.

 

[funkymatt]

Originally posted by: zerocool84

Originally posted by: funkymatt
just saw it fly over socal

What is there to see? I went outside and just see the usual amount of stars.

down here near irvine, it moved from the south to north east, it was definitely the brightest thing in the sky and at 45° it was pretty high up. The 10:47 flyover will be much lower in the sky at 13° and will be going roughly twice as fast in the opposite direction.