Readers who live in Johannesburg may be interested that the International Space Station will pass right over us at two viewable times in the next day or so. On Saturday 26 November it will come from a WSW direction heading NNE. You will see it if looking near the horizon at 04:50am (actually at 17 seconds past the minute if you want to be precise). It should take just under 10 minutes to cross the sky. The ISS orbits at aproximately 300 kilometers up, and often appears as a large moving planet, much larger than other satellites you may have seen.
It will pass over Joburg again that evening at 07:36pm, WNW heading SSE. If you are not in Joburg and would like to see when it will pass over your city, go to the J-PASS website where they have a nifty bit of code that will work it all out for you, and even email in the future when the ISS will be dropping by your part of this big blue marble we live on.
No comments:
Post a Comment