Low humidity, high elevation, and exceptionally dark night skies mean few places on the continent rival Morongo Basin for night sky watching. This week, as the International Space Station with its crew of six passes over the Morongo Basin, the early evening sun will reflect off its solar panels making it visible to the naked eye. Here’s all you need to know to get a good look. Tonight, at exactly 7 p.m., the station will appear as a bright object coming from west-northwest and remain visible for four minutes before disappearing toward the northeast. Tuesday the station will be visible for two minutes, coming out of the northwest at 7:45 p.m. and disappearing toward the north. Then at 6:53 p.m. on Wednesday, catch the space station on its three-minute path coming out of the northwest at five miles per second headed north-northeast. The International Space Station has been continuously orbiting the Earth 16 times a day since November 2000.
