[SGVLUG] OT: Space Station and Space Shuttle visible over LA tonight

[Michael Proctor-Smith]

On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 3:51 PM, Alan Horn <ahorn at deorth.org> wrote:
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> On Mon, 16 Mar 2009, Claude Felizardo wrote:
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>> For anyone interested, both the international Space Station and the
>> Space Shuttle will be visible from the greater Los Angeles area
>> tonight.
>>
>> For ISS, it starts about 7:15 (sunset is about 7:02 tonight) in the
>> SW, passes nearly overhead  at 7:18 and ends about 7:21 in the NE.
>>
>> STS is in a slightly different lower path rising about 7:35 in the
>> SWS, reaches max alt of 38 degrees in the NW and disappears about 7:40
>> in the NNE.
>>
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> The last time I went to look at this (which was the above 2 plus a sputnik
> within a few degrees of one another), I drove up the 2 towards mt wilson
> into the angeles national forest to get away from light pollution.
>
> Its been a few years tho, I don't know if that area still has good darkness.

But the space station has gotten brighter in the last couple of years
as it is bigger, and when the space shuttle finishes its mission it
will be getting its last set of solar arrays.

> Cheers,
>
> Al
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>