Good viewing of the Space Station tonight...

[tenaya]

...if you live in Southern California. The stats for Glendora:

ISS Sat Mar 14/07:56 PM
DURATION: 4 minutes.
MAX ELEV: 76
APPROACH: 11 above SW
DEPARTURE: 24 above NE


In other words, look to the southwest at 7:56pm and there will be a noticeable "star" that will travel across the sky for nearly 4 mins, nearly over head. For those in other states/countries, go find your data here:

http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/sightings/index.html


And it looks like Colbert is winning the contest of naming the new ISS node. What will NASA do if he wins? I know I'm voting everyday for him. The website appears to be laboring under the "overwhelming response."

http://www.nasa.gov/externalflash/name_ISS/index.html

Comments

[kaaatie.livejournal.com]

Cool! Thanks for the link. :)

[tenaya.livejournal.com]

I hope you had better luck. We had clouds tonight. :(

[astrumporta.livejournal.com]

Very cool! There is fine print in the NASA naming thing saying they can choose to use the winning name or not. Colbert is #1 among write-ins, but it's not clear he's #1 overall. Still, it's great publicity for the station!

[tenaya.livejournal.com]

I saw a news report on Thursday and they gave the numbers. Colbert was already ahead of Serenity at that time. The site won't let me vote today but I noticed 300,000 more votes were in.

It's GREAT for NASA. I'm sure they don't want "Colbert" as a name but while it last, they should take advantage of the free press.

[moonchildetoo.livejournal.com]

I knew you'd be voting! I've voted twice so far. The interview with the guy from NASA was hilarious!

[tenaya.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that was pretty funny. NASA is getting more attention than they were expecting. *g*