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Viewing the ISS from Earth - up to five times a night this weekend
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As has been noted on this site, the ISS is visible quite often from places on Earth under its flight path, especially during morning or evening twilight. Heavens-above.com and 'spot the station' at the NASA site are just two places where you can find out when you can see the ISS.
This time of year, the ISS is often in sunlight much or all of its orbit around the Earth. I'll let someone else define 'beta angle' or link to previous discussions on this.
I just wanted to point out that this upcoming weekend, in the northeastern United States (and perhaps in other areas near the northern extent of the ISS' orbit over the Earth) the ISS can be seen up to five times a night, on each pass over our area.
Since I don't see any plan to adjust the orbit of the ISS in the next week or so, the predicted times are likely to be accurate for this weekend.
For the NYC metro area, the ISS will be visible on five consecutive overflights on the nights of
May 13/14
May 14/15
May 15/16
Some of the sightings are low in the sky and may be hard to see with light pollution and ground clutter.
On 13 May, Eastern Daylight Time, from 11:29pm to 11:39, the ISS will go into the Earth's shadow and re-appear before going below the horizon. The ISS will be low in the northern sky from the NYC area, and this might be easier to see from further north of us. The interesting thing about this is the ISS might not get very far into the Earth's shadow and have an extended period illuminated by the glow of the sunset Sun, with interesting colors. Maybe. I've attached a sky map of this overflight for a location just north of New York City.
Another interesting event is when the ISS and the Chinese Station Tiangong will be visible at the same time around 9:09pm EDT on May 14th. They will across the sky from each other, and not near to each other in space, but it might be interesting to observe.
Check the times of visibility for your area!
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