Space Station & Shuttle Double Flyby Sighting Alert →[More:]Here are the details for around here in Seattle, weather permitting:

ISS
Mon Mar 07/07:01 PM
3
47
35 above WSW
12 above SE


Again, that should read, in order, name of object, date and time, length of transit, highest point achieved in transit, point of origin, point of exit.

see also http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/sightings/cities/view.cgi?country=United_States&region=Washington&city=Seattle

But according to Spaceweather's Simple Satellite Flybys

http://spaceweather.com/flybys/flybys.php?zip=98102

It appears thus:

ISS
06:59:10 pm
WNW
07:01:31pm 48°
-3.2 magnitude (very bright)

I don't know what is up with the discrepancy in times but the NASA page is usually reliable. I will be out early, nonetheless. It is quite awesome to see them fly in tandem.

So, in Seattle, the station and shuttle will fade in at 35 degrees above west southwest and fade out at a point 12 degrees above south east about three minutes later. As 45 degrees is halfway between horizon and zenith, it will rise well above the tree tops.

Outside of Seattle, your mileage may vary, so go to

http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/sightings/

or

http://spaceweather.com/flybys/index.php

So, weather permitting hereabouts, this will be very visible. And it's quite a treat to see two extremely bright objects sail across the sky.

They will be 200 odd miles away, moving at a speed of 17, 600 miles an hour and will seem to go even faster as they are moving against the direction of the earth's rotation.
The station presents a surface area of a whole football field, depending upon it's angle to the earth. And, between shuttle and station, there will be 12 people up there tonight.



PS. The second day crescent moon will be in the western sky as well, high enough that the dark side will be well lit in the earthlight after dark. And the bright star below it will be no star at all but rather the planet Jupiter. I will have my telescope out for those. The station and shuttle, however, move too fast. Only binoculars in steady hands will work for them.