You can also visit the following web site for great info on all the brighter
satellite passes (including MIR) and other interesting space related info.

http://www.heaven-above.com

Steve Preston
Bellevue, WA
mailto:stevepr at acm.org



> -----Original Message-----
> From: TWEETERS-owner at u.washington.edu
> [mailto:TWEETERS-owner at u.washington.edu]On Behalf Of osprey at nwinfo.net
> Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2001 7:57 PM
> To: TWEETERS at u.washington.edu
> Subject: inanimate flying things - International Space Station
>
>
>
> Tonight the International Space Station, with the Space Shuttle attached,
> was visible in the north sky from Yakima. It came into view at
> 6:25 and was
> visible for over two minutes. If I had known that the sky was to
> be totally
> clear, I would have alerted you beforehand. While it was just a
> lighted dot
> crossing the sky, it was spectacular in that it was quite bright
> (almost as
> bright as Jupiter) and that it has nine or ten people in it.
>
> There are two websites you can go to to get the times in the future. I am
> sorry that I can't make direct links to them for you, but here they are:
>
> For Yakima:
>
> www.hq.nasa.gov/osf/station/viewing/y.html (it is not updated as often as
> the next site)
>
> For Seattle and Spokane (and many other cities as well):
>
> spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/sightings/SSapplications/Post/Sighting.Data/
> sighting_index.html
>
> Have fun standing out in the cold!,
>
> Denny Granstrand
> Yakima, WA
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