Is there a way to see the space shuttle or the space station with my telescope?What direction do I look?

Answer 1

http://spaceflight1.nasa.gov/realdata/sightings

And you can see it from the ground. Even with the naked eye on some nights. you may need binoculars it goes by fast.

Answer 2

The Shuttle and Space Station just look like bright stars moving across the sky at about the same rate as a high flying airliner. In fact, if you didn't know you were looking at a space craft you might think you were just seeing a plane fly over, but without any flashing or colored lights. See the source to find out when these space craft will be passing over your city. Then just go outside and look up at the right time. No telescope needed.

Answer 3

The best site for predictions of passes of the shuttle ad the space station is Heavens Above:

http://www.heavens-above.com/

Enter your location and it will give you detailed times and maps for the ISS, shuttle, and many other satellites.

The ISS and shuttle are both easy to observe with naked eye or binoculars, but hard to track with a telescope because of their rapid movement and the telescope's small field of view. It helps to have a scope on a smooth moving Dobsonian mount. One way to do it is to aim at a star which the Heavens Above map shows is very close to the path, wait for the object to come by, and then track it manually.

Answer 4

Yes, You Can see that. but its hard because it moves fast and you must catch it rapidly. If your telescope has GOTO system its is easy to catch ISS(International Space Station).
To observe it, You must know it's position first. go to " http://www.heavens-above.com " and enter your City. Then you can See ISS and other satellites (Like Iridium satellites) Positions. In addition you can see other objects like comets position.

Answer 5

It moves too fast unless you know right where to look and then too fast to track with a telescope. See the site below to track it and other sat's.

Answer 6

don't bother, it would only look like a streak across the sky, visit nasa's web page and I think they have live video feed's from a couple of points

Answer 7

Since you didn't say where you are, it makes it a LITTLE difficult to tell you what direction to look in.

Answer 8

yes you can see it..............but its always moving so its hard to spot...............


maby the nasa web site has some info on its location