#Sputnik Transit Incident#
#国际空间站过境【Taiyuan】#
【Tonight in Taiyuan area to see the international space station】
[Tonight the Taiyuan area can directly <不需要任何工具>see the International Space Station (Artificial Satellite) with the naked eye!! Tell the people around you】
Tonight between 18:23:12 and 18:29:03, if the weather is clear and cloudless, then you can look up at the night sky during this time, wait a few minutes, and you will see the international space standing in the night sky moving [its brightest at 18:26, the night sky position is: southwest], the International Space Station looks like a bright star in the night sky moving slowly (directly to the naked eye, no telescope required). Surely you've ever found a star moving slowly in the night sky before, not like an airplane, not like a luminous kite, so the first thing that comes to your mind must be a UFO (UFO)?! Remember that this is our human Artificial Satellite International Space Station, orbiting the Earth at a height above our heads [apogee altitude: 422 km + perigee altitude: 413 km].
The time and location of the International Space Station are different from place to place, but the nearby areas do not vary much, so you can refer to it.
Details of the time forecast for your location can be found using riverons-above.
【Note: When watching, please pay attention to safety and warmth】
Go and tell the people around you to watch it together! Tell him or her it's the Sputnik International Space Station, and you might be tall in an instant!
Figure 1: A map of the sky area forecast for the Taiyuan area tonight (February 8), arrows and solid lines, which can see the direction of the satellite in the night sky.
Figure 2: A map of the trajectory of the substellar points predicted for the Taiyuan area tonight (February 8), the highlighted circular area indicates the range of the satellite's horizon altitude of at least 10 degrees. The size of this circular area depends on the height of the satellite. Roughly speaking, the satellite can theoretically be viewed from high-lit circular areas.
Briefly:
【Bright Satellite Transit Incident】
[International Space Station Transit [Taiyuan]]
Beijing time: 18:23:12 on February 08-18:29:03
Duration: 05 minutes 51 seconds
Maximum brightness: -1.5[]
Maximum height: 29 degrees[]
Sky Zone Location: West-Northwest - South-Southeast
The forecast cloud cover for the area at 18:00 on the day is:
73%【Source:GFS】
6%【Source: GFS2、JMA】
Source: heavens-above
Weather data are derived from European Medium-Range Weather Forecast Centre, World Meteorological Organization, NASA Weather Satellite imagery, NOAA GFS2 models and JMA models
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