Where is the iss now
How to Spot the Space Station from Your Backyard - ISS Science
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hello I'm están Randy Bresnik here's my
friends Marty and Randy will be headed
to the International Space Station where
he will spend six months in low Earth
orbit while he is there he will become
the first marine commander of the
International Space Station and while
I'm up there
Bethan Marty will bring you periodic
updates as to what we're doing we're
going to take those updates and tie them
into specific lesson plans that you can
use in your classroom you can literally
go outside in your backyard and say
hello to Randy while he's up there
working you can spot the ISS as it
passing over you just need to know when
and where to look here's how you can
spot the International Space Station
from your backyard and please be sure to
weigh
we can spot the International Space
Station from our backyard and all that
we need to know is when and where to
look let's start by going to the NASA
website spot the station nasa.gov this
will give us all the information we need
now let's try to spot the station we see
on this past the station will become
visible at north-northwest at 8:32 p.m.
let's be sure we are on time because the
space station won't wait first let's use
our compass to find West now find
north-northwest is between north and
west
north-northwest is between northwest and
north
ok got it
next we see it's going to disappear in
the east got that location the entire
visible pass will happen between those
two areas now we have to determine how
high it's going to be height is measured
in degrees there's a simple way to
determine this height hold your hand out
away from your body and make a fist if
you place the bottom of your fist on the
horizon that line with the sky meets the
ground the top of your fist will be
approximately 10 degrees you can then
stack your fists on top of each other to
reach 20 30 40 degrees or higher
tonight the space station will appear at
10 degrees north northwest if I place
one fist in front of me while looking
north-northwest this is where it should
first become visible got it it will
disappear at 20 degrees east right there
at its highest point it will reach 40
degrees bingo we now have a good idea of
the approximate path that the space
station will be traveling along it's
almost time
let's look at the general direction of
where the pass will become visible we
will scan a wider area in case we are
a little off with our measurements the
station does not have lights outside
that are visible from Earth when we see
it we are actually seeing the Sun
reflecting off of it once the station
becomes visible it will take about six
minutes to pass across the sky it will
not blink like an airplane it will look
like a very bright star that is
traveling very fast across the sky here
it comes
wave to the astronauts
you
