Nice wx for International Space Station spotting
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Gump introduced me to this the other night...
http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/sightings/cities/skywatch.cgi?country=United+StatesLook up your state and your city to find approximate sighting times and location in the sky of the "overflight" path of the ISS. I went out last night and it appeared right where they said it would, big, bright, and fast... super cool!
That thing was truckin'..or rather the Earth is.
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Tue Aug 16, 2011 10:11 pm
Nice, it showed up exactly on cue.. that thing is the size of a football field and it is screaming along at 17,500 mph.

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I like watching the ISS fly over...the shuttles too when they were on a mission. Here's a picture of one from a couple of years ago...sorry, it's tough judging exposure settings when using bulb. The ISS is the thin line starting about a third of the way from the top on the left side:

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