Get International Space Station sighting information for your city

links -dump "http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/sightings/cities/view.cgi?country=United_States&region=Wisconsin&city=Portage" | sed -n '/--/,/--/p'

This command outputs a table of sighting opportunities for the International Space Station. Find the URL for your city here: http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/sightings/

Sample Output

   --------------------------------------------------------------------------

     THE FOLLOWING ISS SIGHTINGS ARE POSSIBLE FROM SUN MAY 01 TO MON MAY 16

    SATELLITE      LOCAL      DURATION   MAX ELEV     APPROACH    DEPARTURE   
                 DATE/TIME     (MIN)       (DEG)     (DEG-DIR)    (DEG-DIR)   

     ISS   Sun May 01/08:54 PM      3      40   27 above NNW   13 above E     
     ISS   Sun May 01/10:28 PM     < 1     16   11 above W     16 above W     
     ISS   Mon May 02/09:18 PM      2      74   32 above WNW   31 above SE    
     ISS   Tue May 03/09:41 PM      3      23   11 above W     21 above SSW   
     ISS   Wed May 04/08:31 PM      4      72   41 above WNW   10 above SE    
     ISS   Thu May 05/08:55 PM      4      22   15 above W     10 above S     

                ONLY DAYS WITH SIGHTING OPPORTUNITIES ARE LISTED

               This data last updated on 3 May 2011 06:58:58 GMT

   --------------------------------------------------------------------------

By: eightmillion

2011-05-03 12:15:56

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