{"id":3272,"date":"2015-05-30T21:53:14","date_gmt":"2015-05-31T01:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=3272"},"modified":"2015-05-30T22:48:35","modified_gmt":"2015-05-31T02:48:35","slug":"spotting-the-international-space-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2015\/05\/spotting-the-international-space-station\/","title":{"rendered":"Spotting the International Space Station"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you like to watch interesting things flying by overhead, you might be interested in looking for the International Space Station. \u00a0When it’s zooming past your area, it’s usually the third brightest object in the sky. \u00a0But how do you know when to look? \u00a0You can sign up for notifications for when the ISS is passing over your location at\u00a0https:\/\/spotthestation.nasa.gov\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Obviously, you won’t be able to see it every time it passes because sometimes it is blocked by clouds and sometimes the transit is too low or fast to catch. \u00a0Since the skies in Athens are clear tonight, I’ll be outside at 10:49 pm looking up to see the ISS pass overhead.<\/p>\n

Here are a few pictures I found of the ISS passage from the Earth’s surface on Commons Wikimedia:<\/p>\n

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Source: Thomas Bresson \u00a0\/Commons Wikimedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

See the original at https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:2011-08-13_22-31-35-moonlight.jpg<\/a> for a better view of the ISS trail.<\/p>\n

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Source: Andreas M\u00f6ller \/Commons Wikimedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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International Space Station seen through a telescope to lower right of the Moon. Source: NASA \/Commons Wikimedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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If you like to watch interesting things flying by overhead, you might be interested in looking for the International Space Station. \u00a0When it’s zooming past your area, it’s usually the third brightest object in the sky. \u00a0But how do you know when to look? \u00a0You can sign up for notifications for when the ISS is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":217,"featured_media":3281,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-interesting-weather-images"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/217"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3272"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3280,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3272\/revisions\/3280"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}