Just watched the ISS and the Shuttle pass overhead tonight...

[perdidobay]

What a neat sight, even though it was just a really bright light passing in the night... if you want to see if you can see it in the next few evenings, just use this website
http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/sightings/cities/skywatch.cgi?country=United+States

 

[KarenB]

Thanks for the link. I should be able to see it tomorrow night. I have a 3 minute window!!

 

[Dan Murphy]

Marie and I just watched it a bit ago. We saw it heading south your way, MJ. I was neat.

 

[Charade]

I wished I had known this 2 hours ago. It's already gone by us.

 

[JadenLayne]

Cool I actually have a 2 minute window tonight at 10:23.

 

[escape]

Awwwww, I missed it for us tonight.

Thanks for the info - I will try to look for it tomorrow night.

 

[JadenLayne]

So what exactly am I looking for? Does it look like a star passing?

 

[kdibattista]

Cool.... 9:12pm tonight for us

 

[Virgo10]

Cool! This weekend looks good for us providing the weather cooperates.

 

[jennz]

Darn - we missed it by a day! Do you know how often you can see it?

 

[perdidobay]

So what exactly am I looking for? Does it look like a star passing?

It will be a very bright small light that does not blink. It will make a steady course following the direction posted on the page I made a link to.
Last night was good viewing for me, but tonight and Sunday ( the only other days we can see it here in Memphis) it will be too low on the horizon, or as on Sunday it will be so soon after sunset I don't know if it will be dark enough.
Make sure you know what degree above the horizon you need to keep your eyes on.

 

[perdidobay]

Darn - we missed it by a day! Do you know how often you can see it?

The website says only days it will be visable in an area are listed, and since
no other days are listed, I guess you missed your chance

Hopefully there will be other oppurtunites later!

 

[Gary M]

I remember watching one of the Sputniks go over our house in the late '50's. How time flies.

 

[Blueeyes101817]

9:12 tonight!

 

[golfgal]

No sightings avaliable in our area, darn. I have watched this before though, it is pretty cool.

 

[KarenB]

perdidoby-thanks SO much for sharing this link. DS and I just climbed down from our roof where we watched. Perfect night for it!!

Karen

 

[Sonya]

OK, stupid question since I have taken astronomy, but how do you do the degrees thing? It says 21 degrees max. That is pretty low, right?

 

[KarenB]

I thought it was going to be much lower. Ours was 27 degrees WSW. I thought to look just above the tree line. Actually when we spotted it, if I held out my arm, it seemed to be a "palm's width" to the right of the moon. Does that make sense?Then it went under the moon and out of sight.

 

[BuckNaked]

We saw it tonight as well. Very bright and fast moving.

 

[Blueeyes101817]

My mom and i saw it tonight too---right above the tree line pretty much--thanks for posting the website!!