{"id":2018,"date":"2008-06-04T18:38:29","date_gmt":"2008-06-05T01:38:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2008\/06\/04\/watching-for-the-international-space-station\/"},"modified":"2008-06-04T18:38:29","modified_gmt":"2008-06-05T01:38:29","slug":"watching-for-the-international-space-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2008\/06\/04\/watching-for-the-international-space-station\/","title":{"rendered":"Watching for the International Space Station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spaceweather.com\/flybys\">feature that predicts satellite passes<\/a> for individual locations (based on zip or postal code) and found these for my zip code:<\/p>\n<p><code><br \/>\nDate....Rise........dir.duration.el..magnitude<br \/>\nJune 05 10:03:34 pm NNW 10:05:44 30\u00b0 -1.3 (very bright)<br \/>\nJune 07 09:12:24 pm NNW 09:14:32 31\u00b0 -1.4 (very bright)<br \/>\nJune 08 09:34:02 pm WNW 09:36:22 59\u00b0 -2.6 (very bright)<br \/>\nJune 10 08:42:33 pm WNW 08:44:54 67\u00b0 -2.8 (very bright)<br \/>\n<\/code><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be looking at the times specified. I wouldn&#8217;t want to miss an opportunity to see something like <a href=\"http:\/\/antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap080604.html\">this nice image<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov\/apod\/astropix.html\">APOD<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/apod0604.jpg' alt='streaks' \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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;&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aerospace","category-rocket-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2018\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}