ISS Sighting

The International Space Station is back in our night skies at the moment. I went out last night at 20:08 to watch it cross the sky from the SSW to the SSE. It’s just a light travelling across the sky, but I never fail to be stirred by it. What made last night’s sighting even more special was the fact that travelling behind it in convoy at about one degree behind it was a fainter light. That, I assume, is the space shuttle Discovery approaching the ISS.  

 

If you want to see the ISS for yourself, go to Heavens Above, feed in your position (Latitude and Longitude) and you’ll be given the dates, times and positions in the sky when the ISS will be passing over you.