International Space Station by Bill Steffen WoodTV8.com

International Space Station

August 25th, 2010 at 5:08 pm by Bill Steffen under Bill's Blog, Weather We have several good flyovers of the Intl. Space Station coming up this week in the evening from Wednesday to Saturday. Tonight’s flyover is at 9:31 PM. It’ll appear 16 degrees above the SSW horizon. It’ll climb to about 40 degrees above the horizon to the SE, then it’ll move to the E, disappearing at 16 degrees above the ENE horizon four minutes later. Here’s a link to a map that shows where the space station is right now (takes a little while to open the page). Here’s another tracking map with the position of the sun. The Space Station circles the globe about every 93 minutes. It’s about the size of a football field and flies about 220 miles above the ground, about the distance between Grand Rapids and Indianapolis. Check out the list of Space Station Flyovers for West Michigan. Also, check out www.spaceweather.com for details on auroras, the number of sunspots (like none right now, AGAIN), asteroid approaches and more. They have a picture and details of a fireball that occurred on Jupiter – video of that here. Sky and Telescope’s Sky at a Glance will show you the current position of the moon and planets. Venus is still bright in the western sky at sunset. You can also get the latest on West Michigan astronomical events from the Grand Rapids Amateur Astronomical Assn. Thanks to Steve Schrier for finding these very cool high res. pics. of Planet Earth.