lozgti1

99.9% sure myself and kids saw it.

If so,amazing!!! Moving so blooming fast!

albob

you are right -- viewable at the mo'

Cpt Jack Sparrow

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Yep, NASA website will tell you when it's passing over

Henrik

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Here's a link to the nasa site mentioned: http://spotthestation.nasa.gov/sightings/

Cpt Jack Sparrow

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Thanks, I shouldn't have been so lazy and put that up myself....

Dr Hu

9.03pm tonight then - visible for 5 mins - West going towards East South East

Bit cloudy today though!

Henrik

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I went out tonight to view the station for three minutes.

If you're just a little bit of a space nerd, you have to outside and see it sometime, it's really quite cool tbh. Very much brighter than I thought it would be (almost as bright as Jupiter).

I'm happy I've seen it. I think I might have caught a glimpse of it before as well, but not known what it was (though it might just have been other satellites tbh).

Alg

Just watched this from Newmarket. Amazing! Totally clear night and so bright as it whizzed across the sky at 17500mph for 4 minutes.

scoobygaz1

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Have seen it a couple of times amazing to think people are in it looking down at us!

paulr

How do you know where to look. Do you need binoculars?

dunx

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See website above, and you just need little cloud as it's moving almost as fast as a jet at cruising speed...

HTH

dunx

P.S. Other satellites are also visible, much much less bright and moving in almost any direction possible....

albob

"..Do you need binoculars.."


No - It looks like a very bright star - but moving very fast

Check the website, as suggest, for direction

paulr

Went out, never saw a thing??

albob

neither did I !

the past few nights it has been at a 'good' height..

last night only 10 degrees above the horizon.

Might be better tonight - 18 degrees and visible for 5 mins

paulr

Tonight the website says 21.02.
The iss app I have which seems to show real time position, shows it going over Portugal, not the uk?

Matteeboy

Won't be long before the Taliban try and shoot it down.

I saw it too; bloody fast thing. Might even give my M135i a run for it's money

legb4rsk

No chance.It's a spaceship not an airship.

albob

I'm not an expert on this - but - given the height of the ISS above the earth, it could well have been over Portugal but 'visible' from the UK.

I forgot to go out and try to see it last night !!

Henrik

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If my calculations are correct, assuming that the ISS is at 370km, you should be able to see it from about 2170km over its true position (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horizon)

Portugal appears to be well within the distance limit, assuming you're not at the top of Scotland