Houston sky tonight

I should have posted this earlier in the day. The International Space Station, Shuttle and russian Progress will fly over head tonight.
Tonight Endeavour, ISS, and Progress will all be visible over Houston. Endeavour will lead ISS by a few seconds, followed several minutes later by the Progress that will be docking to ISS tomorrow.

SATELLITE	LOCAL	DURATION	MAX ELEV	APPROACH	DEPARTURE
	DATE/TIME	(MIN)	(DEG)	(DEG-DIR)	(DEG-DIR)

SHUTTLE	Tue Jul 28/09:16 PM	2		79		35 above NW		28 above SE
ISS	Tue Jul 28/09:16 PM		3		78		33 above NW	24 above SE

PROGRESS

Tue Jul 28/09:23 PM

1

53

33 above WNW

47 above SSW

ok, I understand the 9:16 part... But the rest is like WTF... So in laymans terms- where do I look besides "up"?

Max elevation is where it will be in the middle of the arc across the sky. 90 degrees is straight up, so 79 & 78 is 10 degrees off straight up.

The shuttle and the station will go from NW to SE and it will take them 2 mins and 3 mins total to cross the entire sky. Moving very fast. The angles given (30-ish degrees) with the NW and SE mean how high off the horizon to start seeing them.

I have never seen the Progress before. I don't know how visible it will be since its VERY small. Only 1 min to cross the sky is very fast.

West North West to South South West @ 9:23, and max angle is 53. So its a little lower on the horizon. It will be about 4 mins after the Shuttle and Station cross.

it may start at 9:12 .. typo somewhere not sure.

Will look more like a big shooting star.... just slower.

That was cool..really easy to see.

Just watched the space station and shuttle fly over. Holy crap they were bookin' across the sky! I thought it was going to be kind of lame, but I noticed it was almost time, so I went outside, and sure enough, they turned up, and it was pretty cool after all

Yep.... I could only make out 2.. and they were very obvious. Anyone see the 3rd?


On edit.... I think I went back inside a little too soon. Should have been out there at 9:23 as per your post. The freakin skeeters were terrible...


very cool though!

Mr.RonGilbert wrote:

Yep.... I could only make out 2.. and they were very obvious. Anyone see the 3rd?


On edit.... I think I went back inside a little too soon. Should have been out there at 9:23 as per your post. The freakin skeeters were terrible...


very cool though!

Same here came back in to post and said Oh Shit! we missed the 3rd!

It's def a cool thing to see. Saw it last time, but missed it this time.

Very cool. I took both of my boys ( 6 and 8 ) and they were very excited by and got a science lesson too.

we missed it Was sitting on the couch and suddenly remembered it- looked at the clock and it said 9:23

N2rock wrote:

we missed it Was sitting on the couch and suddenly remembered it- looked at the clock and it said 9:23

SLAKER! You must have been watching the episodes of "so you think you can dance" that you recorded.....

That was a really cool science lesson.

Mr.RonGilbert wrote:

N2rock wrote:

we missed it Was sitting on the couch and suddenly remembered it- looked at the clock and it said 9:23

SLAKER! You must have been watching the episodes of "so you think you can dance" that you recorded.....

Warehouse 13

Glad some people got to see it. I wasn't sure if anyone from SA would be able to see it. The angles would be off for sure. This was the first I ever saw them trailing each other like that. I have seen them combined while the shuttle was docked and also the station alone. The shuttle undocked from the station the day before yesterday's flyover. I did fight thru the skeeters to stay and see the 3rd. It was very vaint and only lasted a minute or so. By the time I saw it it was halfway across the sky.