The time of the best visibility of the space station has come
The best time to observe the flyby of the International Space Station with the naked eye comes from July 13th. The ISS will be clearly visible as a bright star moving across the sky from southwest to southeast until July 17.
In general, the visibility of the ISS in the night sky came on July 1, but it became brightest only on the night of Thursday, July 13. You can notice the ISS as a bright star that smoothly flies across the sky. This flight is visible at a certain point for 3-5 minutes.
In one day, the station makes 16 revolutions around the Earth, a complete revolution takes 1.5 hours. When this little «star» appears in the sky It is hard to imagine that today the 69th main expedition is on board, which includes 6 (!) people: Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Prokopiev, Dmitry Petelin and Andrey Fedyaev, as well as NASA astronauts Francisco Rubio, Warren Hoburg and Sultan Al-Neyadi.
Specialists recommend choosing open spaces in the absence of clouds to observe the ISS.
– You can stand in the field or climb onto the roof and look at the estimated time towards the south, – says Vladimir Samodurov, senior researcher at the Pushchino Radio Astronomy Observatory of the Lebedev Physical Institute. – A very bright, slowly «creeping» light will appear in the sky. star -2 magnitude. In size, it can be confused with Jupiter or Venus. If you have binoculars or a telescope in your hands, this will only enhance the effect.
July 14 — from 0:03 to 0:10 and at the end of the day – from 23:14 to 23:20.
July 15 — from 0:50 to 0:56, from 2:27 to 2:31, from 22:24 to 22:31.
July 16 — from 0:01 to 0:07, from 1:37 to 1:40, from 23:11 to 23:18.
July 17 — from 0:48 to 0:51, from 22:21 to 22:28, from 23:58 to 0:02.
Some visibility of the station will remain until July 25.