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By Chuck McPartlin
The International Space Station will be passing through Santa Barbara’s skies for the next week, weather permitting. Its orbit can vary, so to get the complete and most recent predictions, visit Heavens Above.
On Wednesday, November 21, the space station will make a low pass over our ocean horizon, rising in the in the SSW at 6:11 PM PST and cruising east, vanishing in the Earth’s shadow just after passing the star Deneb Kaitos, the tail of Cetus, the Sea Monster, at 6:14 PM in the SE.
On Thanksgiving Day the ISS will appear twice. The first pass will appear at 5:20 PM in the SSE and cruise low over the ocean to set at 5:24 PM in the E, just before reaching the Moon. At 6:55 PM it will pop up in the WSW and climb toward the bright star Vega, but will fade out at 6:57 PM before getting that high.
Friday will have the brightest pass in this sequence, rising at 6:03 PM in the SW, and passing high overhead to disappear in the NE at 6:07 PM near the bright star Mirfak in Perseus.
On Saturday the station will rise in the WNW at 6:48 PM and skim low over our mountain horizon to fade away at 6:50 PM in the NW.
Sunday’s pass will start in the WSW at 5:55 PM and pass over our mountains through Ophiuchus, Hercules, Draco, and the Little Dipper to set in dim Camelopardalis in the NNE at 6 PM.
The final pass will be on Monday, when the space station will rise at 5:48 PM in the WNW and make a lower repeat of Sunday’s pass, setting in the N at 5:52 PM.
Hasta gobble, Chuck
