UPDATED: Long Beach and L.A.-OC Area Got Good View of Int'l Space Station Tonight (Monday) Approx. 8:33 p.m.
(Aug. 4, 2014, 11:55 p.m.) -- As previewed in a advisory on LBREPORT.com on Monday afternoon (Aug. 4), Long Beach (and likely much of Los Angeles and Orange County) got a good view of the International Space Station as one of its orbits took it nearly directly over Long Beach and over the L.A> basin shortly after sunset tonight (Aug 4.)
Don Haselroth captured this shot...in which one may be able to discern the two sides of the giant spacecraft. Mr. Haselroth said on Facebook: "Watched it go over clear as a bell."
Photo by Don Haselroth on Facebook:.
Below is the spacecraft in a NASA image:
Image via NASA.gov
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The spacecraft became visible in the Southwest sky at about 8:30:22 p.m., rose nearly directly overhead and reached its zenith over Long Beach (88 degrees high, 90 degrees is straight up) at 8:33:40. It then headed into the Northeast and disappeared at about 8:37:00 p.m.
Image via Heavens-above.com
.As of 3:20 p.m., the Nat'l Weather Service forecasts "patchy fog" AFTER 11 p.m. Hopefully, fog and haze won't interfere (but we have no guarantees.)
The Int'l Space Station now carries high definition cameras, which send streaming video back to Earth...and we hoped to get a good view of the L.A-LB-OC area as the Space Station passed overhead. But alas, no: it was already too dark to see much of anything from space as the Space Station passed over the southland at roughy 17,000 mph.
Yes, there are real people inside the International Space Station.
Photo source: NASA
Image above: Expedition 40 crew from left are Flight Engineer Alexander Skvortsov, Commander Steve Swanson, and Flight Engineers Oleg Artemyev, Alexander Gerst, Maxim Suraev and Reid Wiseman. Photo credit: NASA
