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Originally Posted by Cowperson
You oughta know . . . . . the International Space Station transited just a little south of Calgary at a few minutes after 10 tonight . . . . . I was out in the early evening gloom watching an owl circling my yard at about 25 feet, driving my dogs nuts, when I saw the bright light crossing the horizon, southwest to northeast.
According to NASA's site, the ISS will be back at 11:34 pm tonight and then 1:10 a.m., 10:22 p.m. and 11:22 p.m on Tuesday.
http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata...a&city=Calgary
A few years ago, this kind of schedule would appear in the Herald . . . . but it's old hat now.
Cowperson |
Actually, here's something even cooler . . . . . if you compare the ISS schedule with the Space Shuttle schedule just below it in my earlier link, you'll see that at 11:07 pm (ISS) and 11:09 pm (Shuttle) on Thursday, August 9, these two should be chasing each other across the Calgary sky.
Two bright dots that will appear fairly close in the sky but will still be probably, about 891 km apart assuming they are travelling 26,720 kmh.
Cowperson
After that, their transit times are identical as they will be docked.
Cowperson