Week of space station sightings starts tonight

February 1st, 2009, 1:50 pm Post a Comment posted by Gary Robbins, science writer-editor

The International Space Station will be visible each of the next six nights, including a rare six minute pass over on Wednesday, NASA says. The first of the sightings begins at 6:38 p.m tonight (Sunday) and will last for two minutes. Youll first see the station 10 degrees above the north-northwest. Itll be traveling north.

Heres the rest of the sightings:

Monday: 2 minute fly over, startng at 7:06 p.m. Look 10 degrees above the northwest.

Tuesday: 5 minute fly over, starting at 5:58 p.m. Look 10 degrees above the north-northwest.

Wednesday: 6 minute fly over, starting at 6:26 p.m. Look 10 degrees above the northwest.

Thursday: 1 minute fly over, starting at 6:57 p.m. Look 12 degrees above the southwest.

Friday: 3 minute fly over, starting at 5:50 p.m. Look 42 degrees above the west-southwest.