International Space Station viewing tonight 3/23/18

[salth2o]

Tonight, weather permitting, we will have a spectacular opportunity to view the ISS. It will have a magnitude of -3.5 which means it will be very bright. You will be able to see it very clearly with the naked eye.

At 8:42pm begin looking SSW and it will be moving almost right overhead towards the NNE. We should be able to see it for nearly 6 minutes. It will appear as a solid bright moving object. No blinking lights like airplanes, no lasers.

One cool fact is the Russian Soyuz that launched on 3/21/18 will be linking up with the ISS today or tomorrow to drop off 3 astronauts who are going to spend 160 days in orbit.




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[boomerball]

is it bright enough to see in the city?

[texan16]

Cool, will try to check it out.

[salth2o]

is it bright enough to see in the city?

Absolutely!


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[marshman]

Thanks for sharing. I’m in SETX in Orange. Wonder how well I’ll see it?

[Ironman]

Thanks for sharing. I’m in SETX in Orange. Wonder how well I’ll see it?

Very well. Almost overhead for you. I'll be able to see it from north of DFW.

[coolhand]

That's cool. We saw it Wednesday night. Same flight path but just lower on the horizon. The grandkids thought it was cool. We'll be watching tonight.

[Raleigh]

Will you be able to see it from Houston?

[marshman]

What website do y’all use to track it? So you’ll know when it’s passing close by?

[bowhuntertex]

Looks like I will be outside about that time to view this thing.

[salth2o]

International Space Station viewing tonight 3/23/18

What website do y’all use to track it? So you’ll know when it’s passing close by?

I use www.heavens-above.com

https://spotthestation.nasa.gov/home.cfm seems to be a bit more user friendly though. It just doesn’t tell you the magnitude brightness.


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[Ironman]

What website do y’all use to track it? So you’ll know when it’s passing close by?

I use ISS Spotter.

[boomerball]

Absolutely!


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sweet! supposed to be at an outdoor movie night thing w/ the kids. hopefully the clouds break up enough to catch it

[salth2o]

Bump.

1 hour countdown


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[waterdog]

dang it I have overcast here.