According to the NASA Skywatch Application, the International Space Station will be visible to the naked eye as it passes over Santa Barbara tonight from 6:08 to 6:17 tonight in the WNW to NW sky(~3oo°). Let me know if you see it.
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What prompted this post?
Day to Day interviewed a guy from Texas yesterday named Thomas Dorman who tracks satellites and other stuff orbiting the Earth, much of it observable with the naked eye. It seems there is a lot of metal falling around the Earth. I wonder how many times I have mistaken a satellite for a meteor.
Anyway, I thought it would be fun to be able to look up and say, "Look there goes the ISS." Perhaps tonight.
I contacted Mr. Dorman, and he suggested that I use the resources at www.heavens-above.com to track orbitals passing overhead. They have a lot of information about the dozens of communication satellites owned by the Iridium company (a very interesting business story by the way).
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Friday, February 1, 2008
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