iss sightings

Space Station Visibility

The International Space Station will be visible in the skies above Cape Town on certain dates and specific times over the next nine days. We are fortunate to have visibility of the ISS during Mark's visit, because over a sixty day period there are only about two weeks in which the ISS passes over during the prerequisite twilight hours

The ISS is brightest when it is 'down sun' , in the portion of the sky opposite the set sun, so the sunlit side of the Space Station is facing ground observers.

The abreviations:

Alt.: Angle above horizon
Az.: Azimuth - compass direction.

This table courtesy of www.heavens-above.com

Cape Town

Date	Mag	Starts			Max. Altitude			Ends
Date	Mag	Time	Alt.	Az.	Time	Alt.	Az.	Time	Alt.	Az.
30 Apr	1.0	19:59:24	10	WNW	20:01:34	36	W	20:01:34	36	W
01 May	-0.4	19:03:10	10	NNW	19:06:22	56	NE	19:08:03	25	ESE
02 May	1.3	19:43:25	10	W	19:46:15	27	SW	19:46:46	25	SSW
03 May	-0.0	18:46:32	10	WNW	18:49:39	59	SW	18:52:53	11	SE
04 May	2.1	19:27:40	10	WSW	19:29:42	15	SSW	19:31:15	12	S
05 May	1.2	18:30:04	10	W	18:32:56	28	SW	18:35:49	10	SSE

Johannesburg

Date	Mag	Starts			Max. Altitude			Ends
Date	Mag	Time	Alt.	Az.	Time	Alt.	Az.	Time	Alt.	Az.
30 Apr	-0.6	18:23:20	10	NW	18:26:32	76	NE	18:29:08	15	SE
01 May	2.1	19:04:21	10	W	19:06:34	17	SW	19:08:02	13	S
02 May	0.7	18:07:02	10	WNW	18:10:05	38	SW	18:13:11	10	SSE
04 May	2.0	17:51:07	10	W	17:53:25	18	SW	17:55:43	10	S

The Johannesburg Planetarium has set up an ISS hotline to give daily up-dated information on viewing times.
Call 0881208112 for further information on times and co-ordinates over South Africa.

Click here to track the orbit of the ISS.

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