Watch the ISS go overhead TONIGHT!!!

[Skywatcher]

Tonight you can watch this spcecraft fly overhead - it will be easily visible and really quite bright - it will be as bright as jupiter is!

It will fly high overhead from West to East - Those of you below London look high up slightly to the North, Those above London Will see it by looking high up slightly to the South

It will begin to fly from the West(look towards cornwall) at 20.21.43s, Be high overhead at 20.24.40 and disappear into earths shadow at 20.25.23s

It will move smoothly accross the night sky and look like a very bright star.

Other passes over the weekend will be plottable here

http://www.heavens-above.com/ You can even enter your town where you are and it will give you more accurate times.

maybe for tomorrow passes you can try a long exposure photo - which will look like


but tonight I would personally just watch it with the eye

what does it look like through a telescope - well the trick is tracking it as it moves pretty fast ( orbits the earth in 90 mins or so ) but if you can it looks like this......

just click the photo of the ISS


http://www.spaceweather.com/archive....h=05&year=2008

any questions let me know

[simonwebb74]

Wow, my boy will love this, he is so into space at the moment. We talk about all the planets most nights before he goes to bed.
I might have to keep him up tonight in the hope that we can see something.

[Skywatcher]

the times are correct locally by the way - no need to alter them due to BST

[mumof2]

oh wow, thank you! so if i'm in the garden from around 8.15 tonight i should see it? fantastic!

[simonwebb74]

I now have the list of all times for the Bracknell area for the next few days printed off from www.spaceweather.com

Hope we see something

[ukwdwnut]

cool. i saw it last time it was in a low orbit with the space shuttle chasing it, that was class to see

chris

how do you set a long exposure??

also last itme i tried to take a photo of the moon it was just a white blob and totally no detail, any ideas what i was doing wrong?

[mumof2]

I now have the list of all times for the Bracknell area for the next few days printed off from www.spaceweather.com

Hope we see something

what did you click onto get that?

[simonwebb74]

what did you click onto get that?

http://www.spaceweather.com/flybys/index_coords.php

[Keith]

THANKS this is going to be excellent assuming a clear enough sky

[mumof2]

http://www.spaceweather.com/flybys/index_coords.php

fab! thank you....