ISS, Tiangong, Satellites Over Puna

[HereOnThePrimalEdge]

There's another pass of the ISS tonight. I try and get outside at some point every night to watch the orange glow in the sky from lower Puna. As devastating and destructive as the lava flow has been, it's effect on our nighttime sky has been almost the opposite.

ISS Pass Over Puna
Time: Thu Jun 14
7:36 PM
Visible: 4 min
Max Height: 82°
Appears: 41° above NW
Disappears: 11° above SE

Map
https://heavens-above.com/passdetails.aspx?lat=19.6012&lng=-154.9466&loc=Keaau%2c+HI+96749%2c+USA&alt=13&tz=UCT10&satid=25544&mjd=58284.2343641236&type=V


At 8:00 PM Asteroid 4 Vesta rises in the east near Saturn. It will be best visible in the early morning as it moves across the sky toward the west. The orange-red glow from the lava flow will probably make it difficult to see earlier in the night, but after 2:00 AM or 3:00 AM it will enter a darker part of the sky. 4 Vesta is magnitude 5.4 tonight, so while possible to see with the naked eye, binoculars would be helpful:
https://heavens-above.com/MinorPlanet.aspx?desig=4&lat=19.6012&lng=-154.9466&loc=Keaau%2c+HI+96749%2c+USA&alt=13&tz=UCT10

I alternate between thinking of the planet as home — dear and familiar stone hearth and garden — and as a hard land of exile in which we are all sojourners. Today I favor the latter view. The word “sojourner”... invokes a nomadic people’s sense of vagrancy, a praying people’s knowledge of estrangement, a thinking people’s intuition of sharp loss: “For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding.” - Annie Dillard