Re: STS-121 from NASA Human Spaceflight

From: djlaszlo@aol.com
Date: Tue Jul 04 2006 - 18:33:21 EDT

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    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 
     
      
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