What's Up for July? ISS from the city, Milky Way away from city lights

[Jones, Jane H]

Hi astronomy enthusiasts! Mojo and I have been away for a couple weeks on a
family cruise to Alaska, but we are home and now our eyes are once again
turned upwards to enjoy the local night sky. You can still view Saturn lower
in the west and look for Jupiter rising in the east!

For SoCal residents there are some pretty good evening passes of the
International Space Station this week. Look in the Southwest (Saturn will be
bright and low in the SW too) and the ISS will be traveling from the SW to
the NE less than halfway to the horizon. Go to the Heavens Above web page
and click on the date of the pass if you are interested more detail. You may
see a small satellite following the ISS - that is the Progress Resupply
Vehicle! Here's the local Heaven's Above page: http://is.gd/1qaTZ

The good ISS passes are at:
7/7 ­ 9:35 P.M. (ISS passes near Saturn W to E)
7/8 ­ 8:24 P.M. (the best south to north)
7/9 ­ 8:49 P.M. (look closer to the horizon below Saturn)

What else is up? The Milky Way is beautiful, and well worth a trip away from
city lights - more on an outing we're planning soon. The Milky Way is the
subject of my monthly podcast too. You can view it here in many formats:
http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/whatsup-archive.cfm

And here http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/podcasting/whatsup_index.html

And here on Youtube with other JPL videos here:
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=JPLnews&view=videos

That's all for now!



Jane Houston Jones
Senior Outreach Specialist, Cassini Program
JPL - 4800 Oak Grove Drive, MS 230-205
Pasadena, CA  91109  818-393-6435
jane.h.jones at jpl.nasa.gov
Saturnobs http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/Education/saturnobservation/
What's Up June: http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/podcasting/whatsup_index.html