Re: International space station fly over

Posted by Bret B on February 6, 2013, 9:08 am, in reply to "International space station fly over"
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Sorry I didn't think to post a reminder yesterday either . It was a great flyover! But watch out Daniel, I think the "Day of the Week" bug in the lookup.liekens.net site tricked you. The flyover you just posted is actually for the one that happened last night. Note the date in your post: Wed Feb 5. That should say Tue Feb 5. The ISS would never exactly repeat its appearance 24 hrs later; the orbit just doesn't walk around the planet that way. I suspect the website isn't converting the day of the week to the La Manz time zone correctly, even though the date and time are correctly converted. Sorry to say, but the flyover tonight will be barely visible only if you have a clear view of the NW horizon. Tomorrow night is the final flyover for this "season" (series of visible flyovers for a given location), but it's only a little better. Here's the last two (directly from the Heavens Above site): We'll have to wait until the next "season" for a better one (a few weeks from now??)

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