Space Station Spotting

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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

December 01, 2007

5:49, 31deg, beautiful!

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

star track for Friday, December 15, 2006
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star track for Friday, 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.

Satellite Spotters Glimpse Secrets, and Tell Them

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/05/science/space/05spotters.html?_r=1&ref=us&oref=slogin

http://galaxypix.com/

http://satobs.org/

news

Toilet trouble for space station. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7425180.stm

Lexus of space station labs poised for launch. http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080526/D90TD73G0.html

links

What You Don't Know About Living in Space. As Astronauts Begin Spacewalks, a Few Things of Note About Life in Space. http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/Story?id=4450259&page=1

A Space Robot With Arms to Make R2D2 Jealous. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/11/science/space/11robo.html?ref=space

Scale Model Drawing Package http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/station/models/index.html

Space Station Gallery

List of meteor showers