[SGVLUG] OT: Space Station and Space Shuttle visible over LA tonight

[Chris Nolan]

On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 3:31 PM, Claude Felizardo <cafelizardo at gmail.com> wrote:
> For anyone interested, both the international Space Station and the
> Space Shuttle will be visible from the greater Los Angeles area
> tonight.
>
> For ISS, it starts about 7:15 (sunset is about 7:02 tonight) in the
> SW, passes nearly overhead  at 7:18 and ends about 7:21 in the NE.
>
> STS is in a slightly different lower path rising about 7:35 in the
> SWS, reaches max alt of 38 degrees in the NW and disappears about 7:40
> in the NNE.
>
> Satellites look like bright moving stars whose brightness changes as
> the sun angle between you and the object changes.  The ISS will be
> very bright like an airplane except w/o flashing lights.  For details
> and more accurate predicts for your location, check out
> heavens-above.com and enter your location then select a satellite.
> And don't forget to keep an eye out for Iridium flares.

Thanks for the info Claude.

I was camping with friends and family along the Colorado River over
the weekend and we saw a satellite.  Do you know of a database that
allows you to put in coordinates and a date/time period from the past
to see what flew over?  I can find a ton of sites for future
prediction but none for the past.  Does something like this exist?

Thanks,
Chris