RASC Hamilton Spot The Space Station tonight

[Roger Hill]

Two good opportunities to see the International Space Station tonight, for those who'd like to have a look for it.

The first will peak (to the NNE, alt 28 degrees) at 20:43 (mag -1.7) and the other about 90 minutes later at 22:19, magnitude -2.7 : towards the West at 55 degrees above the horizon (look towards Jupiter).  The Dragon capsule may also be visible a few minutes behind the ISS.  

If you have binoculars, it should look really nice as it goes into the shadow.  Look for colour changes as it does.  Also, how far can you track it afterwards?

Go to Heavens-above.com for more details, and for other passes in the next few days...there's another good one tomorrow at mag -3.3, but Dragon will have docked with it by then.  Docking should occur around 7:15 am tomorrow morning.


Roger Hill