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Space station makes good viewing for new year

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I can't think of a better way to begin the new year than to watch some bright International Space Station passes.

This is the perfect way to kick-start that promise you made a couple of days ago when you resolved to watch the sky more in 2012.

Tuesday night brings us an excellent opportunity to see the ISS fly overhead. Start watching for it to appear low in the north-northwest around 7:25 p.m. as a fast-moving stellar point of light. It will make a short pass through Cygnus and then fade from view in Pegasus at 7:29 p.m.

The moon will be high in the south and Jupiter will be to the moon's lower right.

Another chance to spot the station will occur Wednesday evening.

Look toward the north-northwest at 6:29 p.m. The station will be bright and easy to spot as a moving starlike light.

At 6:31 p.m. it will fly just above Polaris in the north and then glide through the horns of Taurus the bull at 6:33 p.m.

The moon will be just to the right and below the Pleiades open star cluster, so this should be an extra-special sighting opportunity.

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Space station, Jupiter are sky's dynamos

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With only a few nights left in August, let's bid adieu with a couple of nice International Space Station passes.

Look toward the northwest at 9:05 p.m. Tuesday for a bright, moving speck of light.

The ISS will fly just behind the bowl of the Big Dipper and then arc high overhead to an easy spot near the bright star Vega a little after 9:07 p.m.

This is space-station viewing at its best since the pass takes it to a vanishing point above the moon at 9:09 p.m.

While you're out admiring the station, check out Mars and Saturn with Spica in the southwest. This dynamic trio has done a very cool dance of cosmic musical chairs the past few weeks, with Mars confusing the game with some sort of Chinese fire drill.

Mars just can't seem to stay put and has been moving between Saturn and Spica like a restless preschooler.

Mars currently sits high above and left of Saturn while Spica rests calmly below.

The last night of August treats us to another ISS pass at 8:57 p.m.

This one arrives from the west-northwest and is quite a bit dimmer than the extra-shiny show we'll have had two nights earlier.

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