Over the next several evenings, the International Space Station currently with Shuttle Discovery docked, will make dramatic passes overhead. I regularly visit a site called SpaceWeather.com; the site features articles and widgets about things going on in space. I tuned into the feature that predicts satellite passes for individual locations (based on zip or postal code) and found these for my zip code:
Date....Rise........dir.duration.el..magnitude
June 05 10:03:34 pm NNW 10:05:44 30° -1.3 (very bright)
June 07 09:12:24 pm NNW 09:14:32 31° -1.4 (very bright)
June 08 09:34:02 pm WNW 09:36:22 59° -2.6 (very bright)
June 10 08:42:33 pm WNW 08:44:54 67° -2.8 (very bright)
I’ll be looking at the times specified. I wouldn’t want to miss an opportunity to see something like this nice image from APOD:
