The International Space Station (ISS) will be visible from Hawaii, weather permitting, at 6:32 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 3 by looking low in the northeast portion of the sky.
Print out the star chart below and hold it overhead to get an idea of where to look.
This chart above shows the path of the satellite (blue line) across the sky Please note that East and West are NOT the 'wrong way round' if you hold the chart over your head to correspond to the view of the sky.
The highlighted circle is the region where the satellite is at least 10º above your horizon. The size of the circle depends on the height of the satellite. Solid part of orbit shows where the satellite is sunlit and the dashed part where it is in the Earth's shadow and invisible.
For more ISS tracks and tracking other satellites visit heavens-above.com
The space station, including its large solar arrays, spans the area of a U.S. football field, including the end zones, and weighs 861,804 pounds, not including visiting vehicles. The complex now has more livable room than a conventional five-bedroom house, and has two bathrooms, a gymnasium and a 360-degree bay window.
International Space Station Size & Mass
- Module Length: 167.3 feet (51 meters)
- Truss Length: 357.5 feet (109 meters)
- Solar Array Length: 239.4 feet (73 meters)
- Mass: 861,804 lb (390,908 kilograms)
- Habitable Volume: 13,696 cubic feet (388 cubic meters)
- Pressurized Volume: 32,333 cubic feet (916 cubic meters)
- Power Generation: 8 solar arrays = 84 kilowatts
- Lines of Computer Code: approximately 2.3 million
Your prediction was dead wrong. The Star Advertiser called it precisely right at 7:09 appearance, and 7:12 closest approach to the moon. DonÊ»t know what your source was, but it was obviously faulty. Reliability is important for this kind of event. Anybody relying on your report here missed the ISS entirely… Just thought you need to know.
Actually our info came from the NASA website on their ISS page. The ISS makes several orbital passes of Hawaii, the information we posted was based upon the best ‘observable’ pass of the ISS.
http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/sightings/index.html
Yes, you ar right, yours was the January 3 pass, and tonights was at 7:09. Too good, you guys!