Better Know an Internet, Cosmic Edition

Today's edition might seem like it would only be for you space geeks out there, but check it out anyway; it just may wow you. Or maybe I'm such a geek that I just think regular people would like it. Either way, I've been hooked on Heavens Above for several years now. And there's no better time to visit the site than when the Space Shuttle is up there cavorting with the International Space Station. If you know where and when to look, you can frequently see the shuttle/space station linked up in orbit, sometimes brighter and larger than a jet in the evening sky. And this site tells you exactly where and when to look.

Just go to the site and tell it your location (you can look up the latitude/longitude of your city on the site). Then you can get a daily chart of most of the brighter satellites wafting over your particular head, and the chart tells you exactly what time, which direction and how high up to look. And for the next week or so, click on the Shuttle Mission STS-116 link to track the shuttle.

Special note to my friends in Seattle. You may have to climb the Space Needle to get your heads above all those clouds, or maybe just wait until summer when the clouds clear up to see all the satellites. Sorry about that!