We've been watching the International Space Station orbiting the earth. on clear nights you can see it clearly between about 10 and 11pm so if you see people on site looking at the sky and pointing it's probably the Space Station. It was so clear on Saturday that we even saw the Russian Soyuz cargo ship that had failed to dock on saturday morning, it's really amazing. there are 3 russians and 3 americans on board it orbits at 17,000 miles per hour and at around 24 miles from the surface of the earth.
Thursday night might be the last night its visible for a little while so at around 09:55pm look west. you are looking for a bright light moving at a constant speed it's different from planes as the light doesn't flash.
if you want to know when you can see it follow the link
http://spaceweather.com/flybys/country.php
Steve
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