This Crazy Cosmos » Space Station http://www.mikiesoft.net Astronomy & Space Exploration Sun, 17 Jul 2011 04:18:05 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 Skywatch http://www.mikiesoft.net/skywatch/ http://www.mikiesoft.net/skywatch/#comments Tue, 18 Mar 2008 07:13:56 +0000 Mike http://www.mikiesoft.net/2008/03/skywatch.html Have you ever watched for the space shuttle, the space station, or just a satellite flying over?  There’s a real handy tool online called Skywatch, that gives you the exact times and locations where you can see orbiting spacecraft pass over your city.

What a thrill to see the sunlight gleaming off the space station’s solar panels, as it streaks across the sky. I’ve seen satellites in the night sky just by accident, when I’m out camping under dark skies, and it’s always really cool, and I just can’t wait to see it again.

Go to spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/sightings to use Skywatch 2.0. It gives you up-to-the-minute data right from NASA’s Mission Control to project the path of the spacecraft you want to see. It’s an awesome sight, and the weather will be good for it soon.

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