Excellent pass tonight and I showed it to two people who had not seen it before.

Fantastic pass tonight. Incredibly bright - and all against a backdrop of the Moon and Jupiter.

Stunning! It never gets old!

Oh yes there was the moon and Jupiter with Aldabaran not far away.

The light pollution seemed a little less tonight, and it was a good view.

Virtually overhead earlier with clear skies.

Contact temporarily lost with ISS earlier: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-21512322

The android app is helpful outdoors to orientate viewing: https://play.google.com/store/apps/d...detector&hl=en

Thanks. That is very interesting. I have not heard of that happening before.

Methinks im in a cloudy place.
I never see space stations or anything space orientated.
I do take the time to look up every night and always will.
I dont have high powered binocs or telescopes.
Im still looking for the ISS but i doubt ill see it by just looking without a telescope.
I live in a city with lots of orangey night glow as well so i suppose that wont help.

If it's clear tonight you might see it - in the UK it is due to pass pretty much overhead between just before 6.05 and 6.11 - it will travel across the sky from from west to east.

Have you had your eyesight tested?

Your problem is not lack of optical aid or light pollution but looking at the wrong times.

Try checking here first and you'll probably have more luck.

Then have a try for these. You have to register and enter your location.

Edit: unless it really is cloudy.

Last pass of this season is at 6.37 pm tomorrow night (27 february).

The first pass of the next evening season is at 8.59 pm on Sunday 7 April.

Hope it's a clear night, haven't seen it at all this season.

As it's the off-season for ISS anybody fancy spotting Iridium flares to keep in practice? I caught I35 last night. Even though it was -7.8 magnitude it was quite difficult to spot in what was still almost daylight at 17.47, and just caught it as it was fading. In darkness those bright ones are truly spectacular.

I guess that tonight is the night when the new ISS season begins.

See Heavens Above

I saw the ISS by accident last night.

I could not figure our what this big "star" was. Then I realised it was moving.

i've never even heard of this. now i have i won't rest til i've seen it . ha ha

Next chance tonight 21:29:11 to 21:34:35. Starts in the west and ends south east. Starts at a low elevation (10 degrees) and reaches 46 degrees about the halfway point.

Hope it's clear.

Next good one Friday night 22:15

Thank you for that!!! I will have a look

That one only has an elevation of 28 degrees, even in the south of England. The earlier one at about 2039 to 2045 (Friday) should be almost overhead (84 degs) down here and it should be dark enough by then, though further north twilight may interfere.

23 degrees for me which is fine. ISS detector doesn't list the 2039 pass. Odd.

That is a very low pass, not exactly very interesting.
I think that is probably due to the fact that twilight is later the further north you go at this time of year.

Just come in (from the cold) and it looked fantastic - although my binoculars were shaky due to my cold hands.

Back out to view Jupiter when I've warmed up - but going to use the 'scope.

Been clear sky into dusk, but you can guarantee here it'll start raining when the ISS is due. And it has.

Commander Chris Hatfield leaves the ISS at 8.08 pm tonight. He is a sensation on Twitter for his pictures of Earth

See Chris Hatfield twitter

Spaceship glowing blue leaving Florida

Canada rocks and many many more

Hadfield's awesome. This is pretty cool, too.