Look to the skies to see space station tonight and tomorrow
You may be able to see the International Space Station above Suffolk this weekend. Picture: NASA - Credit: NASA
If you look to the skies late tonight or tomorrow, you might see the International Space Station (ISS) passing overhead.
The station constantly passes over our heads - and can occasionally be seen when its orbit passes overhead.
It looks like a bright star, appearing in the west and travelling south-southeast for a few minutes. If you don’t have binoculars you could also be able to spot it with the naked eye.
Suffolk astronomer Neil Norman said: “The ISS made some very bright passes last night and early this morning. There are some more very bright passes to come - fingers crossed for a clearing sky!”
Tonight, the space station is due to be seen at 10.02pm, with a -2.7 magnitude and a maximum height of 25 degrees. It will appear again at 11.42pm, with a -3.9 magnitude, and a maximum height of 73 degrees, meaning it will be very bright.
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It will then be visible again in the early hours of Sunday, at 1.16am, with a magnitude of -3.9 and a maximum height of 85 degrees (again very bright), and at 2.52am, with a magnitude of -3.3 and maximum height of 37 degrees.
On Sunday evening, it is due to be seen at 10.51pm, with a magnitude of -3.8 and maximum height of 59 degrees (very bright).
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• If you take photos of the space station overhead, send them to newsroom@archant.co.uk