Treasure Coast viewers should get glimpse of passing Space Station tonight » TCPalm.com
Providing the weather cooperates, the Treasure Coast will get a prime opportunity to view the International Space Station as it passes overhead Thursday night.
The space station will look like a bright, slow-moving star during a four-minute flyover around 8:45 p.m. along the Treasure Coast. It will show up 17 degrees above the southwest horizon and move toward the northeast. Time and coordinates might vary slightly up and down the coast.
The National Weather Service in Melbourne calls for partly cloudy skies around 9 tonight. Partly cloudy is defined as 30 percent to 70 percent coverage, which should allow spectators to spot the spaceship.
What’s so special about the pass is that the space station will reach a height of 84 degrees above the horizon — nearly directly overhead. It should glimmer brightly in the sunlight about 220 miles above Earth.
For the station to be visible to Earth-based observers, sighting opportunities generally occur within an hour before sunrise or an hour after sunset, when there’s a glow on the horizon.
For more exact sighting information in your location, visit Human Space Flight (HSF) - Realtime Data.
Providing the weather cooperates, the Treasure Coast will get a prime opportunity to view the International Space Station as it passes overhead Thursday night.
The space station will look like a bright, slow-moving star during a four-minute flyover around 8:45 p.m. along the Treasure Coast. It will show up 17 degrees above the southwest horizon and move toward the northeast. Time and coordinates might vary slightly up and down the coast.
The National Weather Service in Melbourne calls for partly cloudy skies around 9 tonight. Partly cloudy is defined as 30 percent to 70 percent coverage, which should allow spectators to spot the spaceship.
What’s so special about the pass is that the space station will reach a height of 84 degrees above the horizon — nearly directly overhead. It should glimmer brightly in the sunlight about 220 miles above Earth.
For the station to be visible to Earth-based observers, sighting opportunities generally occur within an hour before sunrise or an hour after sunset, when there’s a glow on the horizon.
For more exact sighting information in your location, visit Human Space Flight (HSF) - Realtime Data.
