Tucson: ISS flyover

[Mike Keville]

According to their website, the International Space Station is scheduled to overfly Tucson at 8:26 PM (MST) 31 May.  Visibility duration: 6 minutes.  Maximum height: 61 degrees.  Path: from 11 degrees above SSW to 10 deg. above NE.
Depending on cloud cover (or lack thereof), it should be a good sighting.

[Mike Keville]

The ISS arrived a few minutes later than scheduled, but we had a good view.  Man, than thing hauls a$$!  As this was typed, it was somewhere over Illinois or Wisconsin.

I'd give my "left one" to get aboard there, but of course am too danged old to even consider it.

[Steve Helmick]

I thought you typed "ISIS" flyover. My eyes are not what they once were. I renewed my driver's license last Thursday and didn't have to wear corrective lenses to pass the eye test...first time ever! Yeehaw!!!    Steve

[Sean McEntee]

Don't feel bad Steve...I saw the same thing...

[Bill Adair]

Mike,

Great viewing from the Portland area last night. The ISS appeared at 2341 hrs, and was visible until it passed behind trees to the East.

Now we are back into our usual rainy weather through Wed. :-(

I was on loan from Boeing to the ISS program at JSC for the last six months of my career, so I have a vested interest in that program.

Bill

[Brian Hampton]

Every day the first thing I do when I've turned on the computer is to go to the ISS tracker at http://www.isstracker.com/ and if it looks like going over somewhere interesting then I go to http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/HDEV/ for the video. If it shows something of particular interest I take a screen grab and save it on the computer. One image I got was an overhead shot of chemtrails.....oops, sorry, contrails ..over Europe. Another was a very clear picture as it went overhead where I live. One that I'm still waiting for is a down looking shot over the Himalayas.

[Bill Adair]

I prefer the ESA tracker.

http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Human_Spaceflight/International_Space_Station/Where_is_the_International_Space_Station

And the APOD high def camera views.

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap140514.html

I also check the APOD site almost daily for the beautiful Astronomy pictures.

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html

Bill

[mike londke]

Thanks for starting this thread. I checked the site and we should have a good view tonight in Nashville at 8:45pm.  That kids are excited. Mike

[Russ Main]

Here is another link to ISS fly bys, probably copy and paste works best? http://heavens-above.com/ but this site has a lot of interesting information for astronomy and satellites. 

[Bill Johnson]

I have an app on my android phone called the "ISS Detector". It's free and it's amazing. You can set up an alarm for when the ISS is due overhed. When you access the app, it tells you when it will appear, predicted weather conditions, and a screen comes up that points you where to look on two axes. It's accurate to within a second or so.

I also added the Iridium Detector to it. The Iridium satellites constellation consists of 66 satellites for communication. They appear as a flash of light momentrily. It's just amazing the technology that tells you when and where to look for a flash of sunlight bouncing off a satellite and it works! People are just floored when I point into the night sky at a point in space and tell them to look for a flash or streak of light and it appears.

Tonight, ISS at 20:35:48 to 20:41:14 and 3 Iridium flashes.

[Bruce Reynolds]

Here is another link to ISS fly bys, probably copy and paste works best? http://heavens-above.com/ but this site has a lot of interesting information for astronomy and satellites.  

I can also vouch for the Heavens Above site.  It will calculate for your location all visible satellite passes.  Iridium flare passes can be especially cool.

[Sean McEntee]

I have an app on my android phone called the "ISS Detector". It's free and it's amazing. You can set up an alarm for when the ISS is due overhed. When you access the app, it tells you when it will appear, predicted weather conditions, and a screen comes up that points you where to look on two axes. It's accurate to within a second or so.

I also added the Iridium Detector to it. The Iridium satellites constellation consists of 66 satellites for communication. They appear as a flash of light momentrily. It's just amazing the technology that tells you when and where to look for a flash of sunlight bouncing off a satellite and it works! People are just floored when I point into the night sky at a point in space and tell them to look for a flash or streak of light and it appears.

Tonight, ISS at 20:35:48 to 20:41:14 and 3 Iridium flashes.

The reason that they are so surprised is most likely that an android product actually works