CINCINNATI – The Tri-State Sky will have a visitor on Wednesday night as the International Space Station passes over the Cincinnati area.
The space station will be visible between 18:51 and 18:56 in the western sky of the region, according to astronomer Dean Regas, astronomer at the Cincinnati Observatory.
Facing west, spectators should see what appears to be a large, bright star moving up and to the right.
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“From Earth, ISS looks like a very bright, non-shining star that moves slowly across the sky. Tonight it will look several times brighter than the brightest star. If the sky is clear, you can’t see it. you miss!” Regas wrote in an email on Wednesday.
According to WCPO 9 News meteorologist Jennifer Ketchmark, Wednesday night’s forecast should match the ideal conditions for viewing the station’s crossing for most parts of the Tri-State. It was estimated that the sun will set on Wednesday at 17:46, with partly cloudy to clear snow.
Visible without a telescope, Regas said he was looking west at 6:52 p.m.
The ISS has been in low Earth orbit for nearly 8,100 days, according to NASA.