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Space Station Error
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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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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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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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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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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