Unless you're stuck in a foggy river bottom tomorrow morning, you should have a terrific opportunity to watch the International Space Station fly over Maryland. The forecast is good and, while this will be an early-morning pass, it will occur at a reasonable morning hour as the sky brightens with the approaching dawn.

And we're getting close to another period of evening flybys, beginning next week. More on that in a future post.

Here are the details of Tuesday morning's ISS flyby: Look for the station to appear in the northwest at about 6:18 a.m. as it flys over Lake Michigan. Zipping along at 17,500 mph, it will reach its highest point in sky for Baltimoreans - about two-thirds of the way between the horizon and the zenith (straight up) at 6:21 a.m. as it passes over central New Jersey.

From there, the ISS and its crew of three will head out to sea, passing very close to brilliant Venus in the eastern sky. It will disappear from our view at about 6:24 a.m.

There will be another, very similar morning pass beginning at 5:29 a.m. Thursday, but clouds may obscure the view. I will try to post more on that one if it appears the skies will stay clear for it.

If you get out to watch tomorrow, come back inside and leave a comment. Describe what you saw so we can motivate others to get out and see this stuff. Especially the kids.