What's Up for July? ISS from the city, Milky Way away from city lights

Hi astronomy enthusiasts! Mojo and I have been away for a couple weeks on a family cruise to Alaska, but we are home and now our eyes are once again turned upwards to enjoy the local night sky. You can still view Saturn lower in the west and look for Jupiter rising in the east! For SoCal residents there are some pretty good evening passes of the International Space Station this week. Look in the Southwest (Saturn will be bright and low in the SW too) and the ISS will be traveling from the SW to the NE less than halfway to the horizon. Go to the Heavens Above web page and click on the date of the pass if you are interested more detail. You may see a small satellite following the ISS - that is the Progress Resupply Vehicle! Here's the local Heaven's Above page: http://is.gd/1qaTZ The good ISS passes are at: 7/7 ­ 9:35 P.M. (ISS passes near Saturn W to E) 7/8 ­ 8:24 P.M. (the best south to north) 7/9 ­ 8:49 P.M. (look closer to the horizon below Saturn) What else is up? The Milky Way is beautiful, and well worth a trip away from city lights - more on an outing we're planning soon. The Milky Way is the subject of my monthly podcast too. You can view it here in many formats: http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/whatsup-archive.cfm And here http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/podcasting/whatsup_index.html And here on Youtube with other JPL videos here: http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=JPLnews&view=videos That's all for now! Jane Houston Jones Senior Outreach Specialist, Cassini Program JPL - 4800 Oak Grove Drive, MS 230-205 Pasadena, CA 91109 818-393-6435 jane.h.jones(a)jpl.nasa.gov Saturnobs http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/Education/saturnobservation/ What's Up June: http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/podcasting/whatsup_index.html