www.spaceflight.nasa.gov has a Realtime Data menu which has a table of passes for larger cities and a Java applet, Skywatch, which will give you an ephemeris. This is predicted for Chicago as of 5:30 PM CST July 4: THE FOLLOWING ISS SIGHTINGS ARE POSSIBLE FROM MON JUL 03 TO SAT JUL 15 SATELLITE LOCAL DURATION MAX ELEV APPROACH DEPARTURE DATE/TIME (MIN) (DEG) (DEG-DIR) (DEG-DIR) ISS Mon Jul 03/09:49 PM 2 77 58 above WNW 30 above SE ISS Tue Jul 04/10:11 PM 2 23 16 above W 21 above SSW ISS Wed Jul 05/09:00 PM 3 80 59 above WNW 12 above SE ISS Thr Jul 06/09:22 PM 3 23 21 above WSW 10 above S ONLY DAYS WITH SIGHTING OPPORTUNITIES ARE LISTED THE FOLLOWING SHUTTLE SIGHTINGS ARE POSSIBLE FROM TUE JUL 04 TO WED JUL 19 SATELLITE LOCAL DURATION MAX ELEV APPROACH DEPARTURE DATE/TIME (MIN) (DEG) (DEG-DIR) (DEG-DIR) SHUTTLE Tue Jul 04/09:24 PM 1 79 72 above W 20 above SE SHUTTLE Wed Jul 05/09:05 PM 2 65 59 above WSW 11 above SE SHUTTLE Thr Jul 06/09:22 PM 3 23 21 above WSW 10 above S ONLY DAYS WITH SIGHTING OPPORTUNITIES ARE LISTED Cheers, Dan Laszlo Ft Collins -----Original Message----- From: Stephan Szyman <szymanss@hotmail.com> To: SeeSat-L@satobs.org Sent: Tue, 4 Jul 2006 21:50:38 +0000 Subject: RE: STS-121 hi all, could someone please whip up some approximate predictions for a visible pass of downtown chicago, Illinois, USA for the STS 121 mission this evening? I haven't mastered yet plugging elements into STK or calsky or whatever, HA hasn't updated yet, and I really want to demonstrate the pass to some folks ( I will be in grant park enjoying a concert & fireworks.) my coordinates at the time will be roughly 41.8864°N, 87.6062°W I am in CDT, US central time, UTC-5. as long as the prediction is + or - 1 minute or so and I know which region of the sky it will pass through, I should be able to catch sight of it... thanks in advance clear skies! stephan szyman chicago IL USA 41.6840N, 87.7000W; 188 msl ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html\\ ________________________________________________________________________ Check out AOL.com today. Breaking news, video search, pictures, email and IM. All on demand. Always Free. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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