Fun with PyEphem
I just tried finding out when and if the International Space Station would pass overhead. First I installed pyephem for linux: $ sudo easy_install pyephem Then started python and typed the following: Python 2.5.1 (r251:54863, Oct 5 2007, 13:36:32) [GCC 4.1.3 20070929 (prerelease) (Ubuntu 4.1.2-16ubuntu2)] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import ephem >>> home=ephem.Observer() >>> home.long = -43.9 >>> home.lat = 19.9 >>> home.elevation = 1000 >>> home.date = "2007/12/09 20:00" Getting the information about the ISS was a bit harder. Had to go to this page at celestrak and get the first three lines then enter it in ephem. >>> iss = ephem.readtle("ISS (ZARYA)", ... "1 25544U 98067A 07343.37458451 .00020246 00000-0 12456-3 0 4837", ... "2 25544 51.6404 280.6485 0000524 313.0633 141.250...