Space geeks - ISS passing overhead tonight , go out and have a look

[kracken]

For those thats interested , the International Space Station will be passing overhead tonight , first at 21:04:11 BST , then at 22:39:11 BST

It will come up at the horizon from west-southwest and will be flying over at 45° from the horizon and its magnitude will be -3.2 , so extremely bright !

Happy spotting

[russbeer]

anyone able to get pics of it?

[TIN CAN]

as above, looked but built up area so no chance of seeing owt

[Mule]

Nice one, just saw it. In a built up area here too but it's easily visible if you find it.

[lloydi]

Think I saw it. Just a single bright light moving quite fast. Hard to tell with no bins

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[pogo]

Brightest i've ever seen it. Cloudless sky here so very good sighting.

[kracken]

yeh it was a single point of light to the eye , but seemed as bright as a flare passing over the north yorkshire sky

[burner1]

Just watched it with the kids, great site to watch and was really bright

[kracken]

if anyone is interested in future passings , follow @twisst on twitter http://www.twisst.nl/

[trueblue924]

Thanks for letting me know mate we got outside just in time and seen it go accross the sky tried to get a picture of it with my camera but obviously all you can see is a bright light in a dark sky lol

[Geko]

Didn't see it tonight. But watched it a few times in March when the Shuttle was also up there. On the right nights you could see both. Even in London.

[littlebilly1]

only just seen this thread, will be out there 22:39 to see if i can spot it

[burner1]

Just upped a clip for kids mum etc. to watch.. it appears slightly to the right of screen after a little while but you can get a general idea of speed as I tried to keep some objects in it as well.. not TV quality as I used my Desire's vide camera:

Edit - just tried to watch it and looks like the conversion's knocked it out of video lol

[Nibb]

Just saw it....brilliant!!

[Mr Olympia]

Just spotted it passing ovehead. Me, the wife and my lad stood in the middle of our close lol.

Truely awesome!!!

[SiE]

Brilliant. Was really surprised how bright and fast it was to be honest. Impressive sight!

[kracken]

Brilliant. Was really surprised how bright and fast it was to be honest. Impressive sight!

just under 8km/sec .... whooosh

[tronads]

Bright as fook, and interesting how it dissapeared mid sky, before it reached the horizon.

[kracken]

Bright as fook, and interesting how it dissapeared mid sky, before it reached the horizon.

Because of the earths shadow as the sun has moved round a little since ISS passed over earlier

[kracken]

There will be another one tonight at 21:28:47 BST

It will come up at the horizon from west-southwest and will be flying over at 52° from the horizon and its magnitude will be -3.4 , so extremely bright !