www.heavens-above.com

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Finally a site for anybody with their feet on the ground but their eyes fixed on the heavens. Astronomers have thousands of sites dedicated to stargazing, but this next site is for fans of man-made celestial objects.

Heavens Above is a community dedicated to watching satellites, the International Space Station and even the Space Shuttle.

A community of thousands of stargazers, they have built up a database of satellite orbits and their co-ordinates in the night sky.

To find out when a satellite or other object is orbiting and visible from where you are, click on the "Select location" option, simply choose your country, then choose your town or city.

From here the site will present you with a list of visible objects in space and where a telescope will need to be aligned to see them.

Click on the "International Space Station", for instance, and the site reveals the time and date of its next visible orbit from your location.

Even if the weather obscures your view of space you can still check out the progress of an object of interest. Choose the orbit option on the satellite info page and the site offers a graphical representation of the object's path through the night sky.

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Nitendo replies

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