It's hard to believe fall is just around the corner with
temperatures hanging in the triple digits.  Let's chase the heat
away with some cool Hubble Space Telescope passes.  Our first
opportunity to watch the HST glide across the night sky comes
tonight at 9:09. Look toward the west for a starlike moving
light. It will be a little bit brighter than Polaris, so don't
look for a blinding bright beacon.  At 9:13 p.m., the Hubble
will be very high in the south. Since the ground track takes the
HST directly over South Central Texas, viewers watching the pass
from locations near Corpus Christi will see it in their northern
sky at this time.  Finally the HST will fade from sight around
9:15 p.m. in the east.  Wednesday night's pass is a repeat of
Tuesday night's - just watch for the HST a minute earlier as it
follows an almost identical path across the sky.  Thursday night
brings us the Hubble Space Telescope gliding through the sky at
9:04 p.m.  By Friday night the HST appears at 9:01 p.m. in the
west. And by 9:07