from west to east, passing almost directly overhead Sunday again at 10:09 p.m. in almost the same place, as well as 11:46 p.m. It takes a few minutes for it to reach its highest point. Here's when you can see it. If you're feeling ambitious, you can try spotting it just as it rises in the west where it will be fairly close to Venus, which will be extremely low on the horizon. (If you head out earlier, you'll find Venus, the brightest object in the sky, higher in the west.)Īll times, which are local, are the times at which the ISS rises above the horizon.

This weekend provides a great viewing opportunity. The ISS will be visible until early June. Why selling off the ISS would be tricky for the U.S.The space station is visible for a long distance around each of the listed locations. If your specific city or town isn’t listed, pick one that is fairly close to you. Several times a week, mission control at the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Nasa)’s Johnson Space Centre in Houston, TX, determines sighting opportunities for over 6,700 locations worldwide. Spot The Station will give you a list of upcoming space station sighting opportunities for your location – just click here.

It will also be moving considerably faster than a typical airplane (airplanes generally fly at about 600 miles (965 km) per hour the space station flies at 17,500 miles (28,000 km) per hour). It looks like an airplane or a very bright star moving across the sky, except it doesn’t have flashing lights or change direction. The International Space Station will be seen as a bright white dot moving across the sky. It will also be visible at 11:41pm for four minutes. According to Spot The Station, the International Space Station will be visible on Friday July 23 at 10:04pm, for approximately seven minutes, from London.

Seeing iss from earth