What did I see? (Astronomers needed)

[St.Josh]

Just got back from playing football and looked up into the sky to see one lonely star (or what I thought was a star).
As it was the only bright thing in the sky I kept looking at it to work out what it was and suddenly realised it was moving steadily through the sky.

I was wondering is there meant to be any comets or asteroids passing through are way today. Im certain it wasn't a chinese lantern and pretty sure it wasn't a plane or anything like that as it looked exactly like a bright star apart from the fact it was moving.

Does anyone have any ideas of what it could be?

 

[Maccapacca]

Space station

 

[greywolf]

Prob the ISS.

 

[chrisxuk]

Pluto.

edit: looks like I was wrong.

 

[Berserker]

Probably terrestrial. Comets/asteroids tend to move rather quickly through the sky so you wouldn't be 'suddenly realising' anything.

 

[Messiah Khan]

The ISS

http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/tracking/index.html

 

[fornowagain]

ISS

http://esa.heavens-above.com/esa/iss_step2.asp?Loc=Brandon&Lat=52.447&Lng=0.627&TZ=GMT

 

[PinkFloyd]

Was it on a tilt?

 

[Docaroo]

Satellite.

 

[Berserker]

Agreed with the above. ISS fits the bill nicely with a pass over the area at 22:12. Beta angle would have been good for viewing as it usually is just after sunset/before sunrise.

 

[St.Josh]

Ah it was the ISS thats quite cool thanks for the help guys.

 

[Fire Wizard]

It was most likely an alien space craft. I'm not quite sure why everyone is saying it's the International Space Station, that's quite absurd. Though, I guess there are conspiracy nut jobs everywhere today.

 

[The Funktopus]

What did I see?

You Saw Nothing!

 

[RobH]

Probably the ISS, it's currently making very clear passes across the UK in the evening, it's visible for a good 3-4 minutes and well worth looking out for if you've never seen it before. You can track its position in real time at: http://isstracker.com

You can also use NASA SkyWatch which is very accurate as long as you put in the correct details.

-Download and install Google Earth.
-Under Tools > Options make sure coordinates are set to 'Decimal Degrees'.
-Drop a placemark in your back garden and then right click to bring up the properties.
-Enter the latitude and longitude into the 'Input' tab of NASA SkyWatch.
-Check the 'Daylight saving' box
-Click on the button that says 'Next Sighting'

It will list the next chance you'll get to see it, it gives the bearing in degrees east of north so 270 degrees east of north is west.

 

[sigma]

Swamp gas imo.

 

[RadoX]

A.S.S

 

[whitecrook]

Your M.A.W.

 

[Pawnless Endgame]

It was most likely an alien space craft. I'm not quite sure why everyone is saying it's the International Space Station, that's quite absurd. Though, I guess there are conspiracy nut jobs everywhere today.

Could it have been that blue spinning box? Time And Relative Dimension In Space.

 

[Steeps]

Had exactly the same last year in August, so took a picture of it.

About 2mins of exposure:

 

[neoboy]

It's Vin Diesel