Tracking Spacecraft Online

[kg4kww]

Did you ever see a light moving across the night sky and wonder if it's an airplane, spacecraft, or even a UFO? Many people enjoy satellite watching as a fun hobby, and you can join them using J-Pass. Using your location and the latest available tracking data, J-Pass predicts the times a satellite will pass overhead and generates a chart showing the path of the craft through your sky. This applet is so user-friendly that you do not have to configure it with your latitude and longitude. Instead, plug in your ZIP code and the applet calculates your coordinates for you.

For more info click on the link below to go to the ARRL article on Tracking Spacecraft Online:

Tracking Spacecraft Online (http://www.arrl.org/news/features/2004/09/17/1/?nc=1)http://www.arrl.org/news/features/2004/09/17/1/surfin194-image.gif

[kg6saj]

And, helpful guy that I am, here's a couple of links for the International Space Station.

One that shows the ISS orbital track, in real time:

http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/tracking/index.html #

and one for "sighting opportunities", with a telescope or binoculars (even the naked eye), listed by city:

http://spaceflight1.nasa.gov/realdata/sightings/cities/index.cgi

73, Tim

[kg4kww]

coll, thanks http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/cool.gif

[kg4kww]

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[KA9VQF]

Been using satscape the last few years myself.
Before that it was satracker or something like that. It was a bit more work because you had to enter the keps yourself.