HUNTSVILLE, AL - Heads up, Huntsville. The International Space Station is passing overhead in the next week - beginning tonight - on a course that offers several good times to see the "moving star."

Traveling at 17,500 mph more than 200 miles overhead, the station will be the brightest object in the night sky. And with more interior room than a conventional five-bedroom house, it will be easily visible.

There station will pass over seven times, but most of the opportunities will be for about a minute. On Sunday and Tuesday, however, the ISS will be at a good height for a good period of time.

If the sky is clear, use the degrees above the horizon and the directions below to see the station:

* Tonight: 9:20 p.m., visible 1 minute, approach 17 degrees above north, departure 24 degrees above north-northeast, maximum elevation 24 degrees

* Sunday, 9 p.m., visible 2 minutes, approach 32 degrees above northwest, departure 43 degrees above south-southeast, maximum elevation 77 degrees

* Tuesday, 8:14 p.m., visible 3 minutes, approach 41 degrees above west-northwest, departure 16 degees above southeast, maximum elevation 71 degrees.

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