How To See The International Space Station From Lakewood Tonight

The International Space Station, with a crew of six onboard, is seen in silhouette as it transits the Sun at roughly five miles per second during a partial solar eclipse, Monday, Aug. 21, 2017 from Ross Lake, Northern Cascades National Park, Washington. Onboard as part of Expedition 52 are: NASA astronauts Peggy Whitson, Jack Fischer, and Randy Bresnik; Russian cosmonauts Fyodor Yurchikhin and Sergey Ryazanskiy; and ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Paolo Nespoli. A total solar eclipse swept across a narrow portion of the contiguous United States from Lincoln Beach, Oregon to Charleston, South Carolina. A partial solar eclipse was visible across the entire North American continent along with parts of South America, Africa, and Europe. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

People in New Jersey will have the opportunity to see the International Space Station tonight as it flies through space high above New Jersey.

According to NASA, the space station will be visible to the naked eye for about seven minutes as it travels across the night sky over the Southeast and East Coast of the United States.

In Lakewood and surrounding areas, the International Space Station will be the second-brightest object in the sky, other than the moon, and will appear similar to a fast-moving plane or bright star, but at a much higher altitude and moving at 17,500 miles an hour. It also will not have any flashing lights and will not change direction.

To watch, gaze upwards beginning at 9:54 PM. The ISS should appear at 10-degrees above the southwestern sky and then disappear at 10-degrees above the northeastern sky.

If you missed the first sighting, you can still catch a glimpse of the ISS as it circles above Earth at 11:32 PM. It will be visible for 5 minutes.

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3 COMMENTS

  1. Will actually be brighter/easier to view tomorrow evening. -4.4 magnitude (9:06 PM) as opposed to tonight -3.8 magnitude (which is still plenty bright to see)

    FYI, the second pass will be extremely faint and hard for most people to locate, especially with local light pollution…

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