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Old December 23rd 04, 03:42 AM
KDC
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You may have heard on the news that the
International Space Station will be visible on
Christmas Day. Although this is true, it will be
so low in the sky (about 12 degrees in the NYC area) most people
will not be able to view it.

The best opportunities to see the space station
actually occur after Christmas Day in the last
week of December. All of these are in the morning
sky before dawn

On December 27th, face the northwest sky at about
6:10 a.m. The station appears as a bright moving
star. It passes over the North Star and
disappears in the southeast at 6:15 am.

The station reappears on December 28th at 6:36
a.m. near the Moon and the planet Saturn in the
western sky. It passes Jupiter in the south and
disappears in the southeastern sky at 6:42 am.

Face northeast on December 29th at 5:30 a.m. The
space station sweeps down towards the southeast
horizon and disappears at 5:33 a.m.

Actually if you really want to see the station and don't want to get up
in the wee hours, just wait until Jan. 11. The station will make a nice
high pass just after 6:00 p.m.
For details and maps see:
www.heavens-above.com

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Old December 23rd 04, 04:10 AM
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You may have heard on the news that the
International Space Station will be visible on
Christmas Day.



My local TV news station reported this too. They didn't say where
to look. They didn't say the time to look. Somehow the media got=20
hold of blurb that the space station was going to be visible=20
and they're all repeating the same non-information junk. Yes, it's
going to be visible, as it is often, but without more specific
information such reports are useless.

-Florian


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Old December 23rd 04, 05:50 AM
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On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 03:10:36 GMT, Florian
wrote:

My local TV news station reported this too. They didn't say where
to look. They didn't say the time to look. Somehow the media got
hold of blurb that the space station was going to be visible
and they're all repeating the same non-information junk. Yes, it's
going to be visible, as it is often, but without more specific
information such reports are useless.


It probably started with this press release from NASA about ISS viewing
possibilities:

http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2004...s_visible.html

AP picked it up and wrote an article on it that included the link NASA
gave for getting details of sightings
(http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/isssightings), see for example:
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp..._space_station

What the local papers and TV news will do with it after that cannot be
predicted, even by NASA.

Mike Simmons
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Old December 23rd 04, 05:02 PM
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It probably started with this press release from NASA about ISS
viewing
possibilities:

http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2004...s_visible.html


Yes, I've just found that press release - that must be the source. I
can't blame this one on the media - that really is a poorly written
press release. It clearly implies the station will be visible on Dec 25
when in reality it is a mediocre pass not easily visible from most
major US cities.

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Old December 23rd 04, 07:27 PM
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Yes, I've just found that press release - that must be the source. I
can't blame this one on the media - that really is a poorly written
press release. It clearly implies the station will be visible on Dec =

25
when in reality it is a mediocre pass not easily visible from most
major US cities.



Yes, i agree. The original NASA news release was very poorly done.

-Florian


 




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