Pop up notifications for Ubuntu if there is an ISS pass or Iridium flare in the next one hour.

Work in progress for Mac OS X. Feel free to contribute :)

Use the terminal to execute these commands.

• PyNotify Use sudo pip install pynotify
• Mechanize Use sudo pip install mechanize
• Beautiful Soup Use sudo pip install beautifulsoup

1. Specify your heavens-above.com credentials in the iridiumFetch.py file.
2. Add the two Python scripts to Crontab using the following steps:
3. Terminal -> crontab -e
4. Navigate to the bottom of the screen just after the lines that start with # sign.
5. Enter the following lines.
   1. 0 * * * * env DISPLAY=:0 /usr/bin/python /home/userName/cronIridium.py
   2. @reboot /usr/bin/python /home/userName/iridiumFetch.py &
6. Ctrl + O write these lines to the Cron table.
7. Ctrl + X to close the Crontab.

This is how the notification for Iridium flares look like.