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So I was coming out of work this evening about 5ish, and noticed a particularly bright star up in the southern sky, which I know is Jupiter... However, there was an equally bright star overhead, which, just before I got into my car, I noticed was moving.... It was moving about the speed of high altitude jet - maybe a bit faster, but I noticed the light from it was a constant clear dot, with no flashing lights. Also, as I continued to watch it, the brightness of its light did not change.

Suspicious about the nature of it, I thought it had all the qualities of a satellite but was too bright so just did a google and found this - http://spaceflight1.nasa.gov/realda...try=United_Kingdom&region=England&city=London (look at the 5th line down)

So surely, I've just seen it :)

I'm amazed how bright it was :)
 
nIIICEE!! Best thing ive seen is seeing a dot travelling across the sky, then seeing it ignight and burn up in the atmosphere. it was very special!! I swear i even heard it
 
You deserve a prize for using logic and reason to determine to truth behind what you saw rather than just declaring it a UFO and running to the nearest grassy noll with your tinfoil hat and radio transmitter to try and contact the mother ship.
 
That describes perfectly satellites i've seen in orbit in southern spain, except for the uber brightness.

Maybe you did! :) That would be smart. I've maybe seen it but I wouldn't notice, a lot of satellites visable in the Costa's at night particularly.
 
When I'm at my parents house in deepest, darkest rural France, you can see satellites very clearly all the time, not to mention the cloud effect of the Milky Way. Looks incredible and makes you realise just how much light pollution we have in this country.
 
BluZiff said:
I want to see the ISS got the iphone app to track it and everything
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The luck was of course just happening to walk out of the office during the 1 minute it was passing over, and the light being just right - ie: Just got dark, so the sun was below the horizon, but was not below the horizon for the IIS :)

Very lucky for me :)

It was just as bright, if not brighter, than Jupiter. Very bright!
 
Fenris said:
You deserve a prize for using logic and reason to determine to truth behind what you saw rather than just declaring it a UFO and running to the nearest grassy noll with your tinfoil hat and radio transmitter to try and contact the mother ship.
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I used to listen to a talk radio station in my younger days before I went to sleep. And one night a load of people got carried away talking about 'a bright light hovering in the sky'. It was of course just Jupiter on a particularly bright occurrence...
 
NeilFawcett said:
So I was coming out of work this evening about 5ish, and noticed a particularly bright star up in the southern sky, which I know is Jupiter... However, there was an equally bright star overhead, which, just before I got into my car, I noticed was moving.... It was moving about the speed of high altitude jet - maybe a bit faster, but I noticed the light from it was a constant clear dot, with no flashing lights. Also, as I continued to watch it, the brightness of its light did not change.

Suspicious about the nature of it, I thought it had all the qualities of a satellite but was too bright so just did a google and found this - http://spaceflight1.nasa.gov/realda...try=United_Kingdom&region=England&city=London (look at the 5th line down)

So surely, I've just seen it :)

I'm amazed how bright it was :)
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If you look at the entries on that list. Firday at about 4:55pm might be a good sighting, weather permitting! The ISS somes over 5 minutes earlier than today, but the sunset on Friday will be 5 minutes earlier than today so the conditions should be the same... Again! It was very bright! All I could see was Jupiter the ISS, and just one or two stars...
 
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it's the first thing i thought, i've seen ISS quite a few times now, it's more regular than you think, made easier to see with the net offering pages telling you where and when you can see it.
 
wez130 said:
it's the first thing i thought, i've seen ISS quite a few times now, it's more regular than you think, made easier to see with the net offering pages telling you where and when you can see it.
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I would imagine there's only an hour or two window though (after sunset and before sunrise)? Outside that there wouldn't be (significant) sunlight falling on it?
 
LOL! It's stalking me now... Just went around to pick my son up from my neighbours. Happened to look up on the 10 second journey back home, and there it was again... Just checked on the link I gave before, and it was indeed the IIS again :)
 
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