Transcript ISS Sighting Opportunities

Space News Update
- November 26, 2013 In the News
Story 1:
Falcon 9 rocket launch scrubbed until Thanksgiving
Story 2:
Comet ISON Diving Sunward as its Moment of Truth Nears
Story 3:
End of the Beginning for Swarm Trio
Departments
The Night Sky
ISS Sighting Opportunities
Space Calendar
NASA-TV Highlights
Food for Thought
Space Image of the Week
Falcon 9 rocket launch scrubbed until
Thanksgiving
Comet ISON Diving Sunward as its
Moment of Truth Nears
End of the Beginning for Swarm Trio
The Night Sky
Tuesday, November 26
Jupiter's Great Red Spot should cross the planet's central meridian
around 11:36 p.m. Eastern Standard Time tonight. The tiny black shadow
of Jupiter's moon Io crosses the planet's face from 11:47 p.m. EST to 2:01
a.m. EST.
By about 2 a.m. Wednesday morning the waning Moon is up in the east
with Mars shining to its left. By dawn Wednesday morning, they're high in
the southeast.
Wednesday, November 27
You may think you know Cassiopeia, but I bet you've never hunted its
open cluster King 20 or teased apart the multiple star ADS 16795 just ½°
to the cluster's west. And, the charming double star Struve 3022 shines in
the same telescopic field.
Thursday, November 28
Comet ISON comes to perihelion around 2 p.m. EST (19h UT). It’s
very unlikely to be bright enough to be detectable in the Sun's immediate
glare. If you want to try, don't harm your eyes! Put the Sun behind
something like a building corner or a streetlight fixture, not your wiggling
Sky & Telescope
finger. The apparent location of the comet will be within one
solar diameter of the Sun's edge from about noon to 3 p.m. EST. The comet swings from due south of the Sun at 12:30 p.m.
EST to closely southeast of it at 1:30 p.m. EST, due east at 2:20 p.m. EST, and farther northeast for several hours thereafter.
Jupiter's Great Red Spot should transit the planet's central meridian tonight around 1:14 a.m. EST (10:14 p.m. PST).
The waning Moon shines near Spica in the dawn Friday morning, as shown here.
Friday, November 29
This is the time of year when the Great Square of Pegasus floats highest overhead at dinnertime. Its western side points
far down almost to Fomalhaut shining in the south. Its eastern side points less directly down toward Beta Ceti (Diphda), less
far below.
ISS Sighting Opportunities
ISS For Denver:
Date
Visible
Max Height
Appears
Disappears
Wed Nov 27, 4:42 AM
1 min
18°
18 above NE
11 above ENE
Wed Nov 27, 6:15 AM
4 min
67°
12 above WNW
30 above SE
Thu Nov 28, 5:28 AM
2 min
66°
42 above NNW
30 above ESE
Fri Nov 29, 4:41 AM
< 1 min
27°
27 above E
19 above E
Fri Nov 29, 6:14 AM
5 min
22°
12 above W
10 above S
Sighting information for other cities can be found at NASA’s Satellite Sighting Information
NASA-TV Highlights
(all times Eastern Daylight Time)
November 27, Wednesday
7 - 8:30 a.m. - Live Interviews with Vicki Kloeris, ISS Food System Manager and Expedition
35/36 Astronaut Tom Marshburn on Thanksgiving in Space - JSC (All Channels)
9:30 a.m., 1 p.m., 8 p.m. - Replay of Interviews with Vicki Kloeris, ISS Food System
Manager and Expedition 35/36 Astronaut Tom Marshburn on Thanksgiving in Space HQ (All Channels)
November 29, Friday
4:45 p.m. - Coverage of the Docking of the ISS Progress 53 Cargo Craft to the Zvezda
Service Module (Docking scheduled at 5:28 p.m. ET) - JSC (All Channels)
Watch NASA TV online by going to the NASA website
Space Calendar
Nov 25 - [Nov 25] Progress M-21M Soyuz U Launch (International Space Station 53P)
Nov 25 - Comet P/2005 T2 (Christensen) At Opposition (2.508 AU)
Nov 25 - Comet 271P/van Houten-Lemmon At Opposition (3.332 AU)
Nov 25 - Asteroid 2010 CL19 Near-Earth Flyby (0.097 AU)
Nov 25 - Asteroid 3306 Byron Closest Approach To Earth (1.525 AU)
Nov 26 - Mercury Passes 0.3 Degrees From Saturn
Nov 26 - Comet C/2012 T4 (McNaught) At Opposition (3.890 AU)
Nov 26 - Asteroid 2013 NJ Near-Earth Flyby (0.006 AU)
Nov 26 - Asteroid 2007 VW83 Near-Earth Flyby (0.066 AU)
Nov 26 - Kuiper Belt Object 229762 (2007 UK126) At Opposition (42.882 AU)
Nov 26 - 50th Anniversary (1963), Explorer 18 Launch
Nov 27 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #364 (OTM-364)
Nov 27 - Comet 269P/Jedicke At Opposition (3.537 AU)
Nov 27 - Asteroid 2009 LD Near-Earth Flyby (0.082 AU)
Nov 27 - Asteroid 3263 Bligh Closest Approach To Earth (1.280 AU)
Nov 27 - Asteroid 1125 China Closest Approach To Earth (1.612 AU)
Nov 27 - Asteroid 116939 Jonstewart Closest Approach To Earth (1.789 AU)
Nov 27 - Asteroid 5451 Plato Closest Approach To Earth (1.883 AU)
Nov 28 - [Nov 21] Comet C/2012 S1 (ISON) Perihelion (0.012 AU)
Nov 28 - [Nov 26] SES-8 Falcon 9 Launch
Nov 28 - Kondor-E 1 Strela Launch
Nov 28 - Comet C/2013 V1 (Boattini) At Opposition (1.596 AU)
Nov 28 - Asteroid 3524 Schulz Closest Approach To Earth (1.600 AU)
Nov 28 - Asteroid 6790 Pingouin Closest Approach To Earth (1.652 AU)
Nov 28 - Asteroid 656 Beagle Closest Approach To Earth (2.127 AU)
Nov 29 - Comet 71P/Clark At Opposition (3.402 AU)
Nov 29 - Asteroid 2000 KA Near-Earth Flyby (0.060 AU)
Nov 29 - Asteroid 2013 VP12 Near-Earth Flyby (0.070 AU)
Nov 29 - Asteroid 3850 Peltier Closest Approach To Earth (1.264 AU)
Nov 29 - Kuiper Belt Object 2006 QH181 At Opposition (82.060 AU)
Nov 29 - Christian Doppler's 210th Birthday (1803)
JPL Space Calendar
Food for Thought
Neutrino Detection Could Help Paint an Entirely New Picture of
the Universe
Space Image of the Week
Cap Cloud over the Sierra Nevadas
Image Credit & Copyright: Guido Montañés