ISS Visible in Evening Sky (North America)
Hello Everyone,
This is a quick reminder that there are several ISS eyeball viewing opportunities this week for North American stations. They are evening passes. On a couple passes you may be able to watch the ISS enter eclipse.
Use your tracking program or the tracking resources on-line:
http://www.heavens-above.com will print you a table of 10-day visible passes if you enter your city data.
NASA's SkyWatch Web site at http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/sightings/ allows access to USA and global visible passes, and a downloadable SkyWatch 2.0 applet.
http://spaceweather.com/flybys/ may perhaps be using old keplerian elements as it says nothing is visible. Check your keps - there have been a couple of recent ISS reboosts.
-- 73 de JoAnne K9JKM [email protected]
Or if you're an APRS user, just send an APRS message (any content except a valid APRS callsign-SSID) to ISS. The response will contain the next pass information for your last beaconed position (or the last beaconed position of the callsign-SSID that you send as the text to ISS). Unfortunately, I don't (yet) flag the visible passes.
The response message format is described at http://aprsisce.wikidot.com/doc:satsrv and the response server works for other satellites as well.
Lynn (D) - KJ4ERJ - Author of APRSISCE for Windows Mobile and Win32
On 4/10/2012 8:58 AM, JoAnne Maenpaa wrote:
Hello Everyone,
This is a quick reminder that there are several ISS eyeball viewing opportunities this week for North American stations. They are evening passes. On a couple passes you may be able to watch the ISS enter eclipse.
Use your tracking program or the tracking resources on-line:
http://www.heavens-above.com will print you a table of 10-day visible passes if you enter your city data.
NASA's SkyWatch Web site at http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/sightings/ allows access to USA and global visible passes, and a downloadable SkyWatch 2.0 applet.
http://spaceweather.com/flybys/ may perhaps be using old keplerian elements as it says nothing is visible. Check your keps - there have been a couple of recent ISS reboosts.
-- 73 de JoAnne K9JKM [email protected]
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As a postscript, running that cool SkyWatch 2.0 Java applet shows there are ISS evening passes worldwide.
1. http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/sightings/ 2. Click Start Applet (some systems may require Java upgrade) 3. When Skywatch starts click on your continent. 4. Then click on nearby city. Use the buttons to select how you want your data.
-- 73 de JoAnne K9JKM [email protected]
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