Low humidity, high elevation, and exceptionally dark skies mean few places on the continent rival the Morongo Basin for night sky watching. Even this week’s bright moon won’t be enough to obscure the international Space Station with its crew of six as it makes multiple passes over our Morongo Basin. Sunlight will reflect off the space station’s solar panels, making it visible to the naked eye. Here’s reporter Mike Lipsitz with all you need to know to get a look…
The International Space Station will appear as a bright object moving across our sky multiple times tonight, tomorrow, and briefly on Saturday and Sunday. Catch it tonight at 9:48 p.m. coming out of the north-northwest and visible for just one minute before disappearing in the north. The best chance to catch the space station is on Friday at 8:55 p.m., coming out of the west on a five-minute path headed north-northeast. Saturday and Sunday offer two fleeting opportunities of less than a minute each to catch the flyovers. On Saturday at 5:06 a.m. the space station will appear briefly in the southwest. On Sunday at 8:57 p.m., look north-northwest for a glimpse of the space station as it speeds by. The International Space Station has been continuously orbiting the Earth 16 times a day since November 2000.
https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/main/index.html
