Space Nerd Alert: Very Bright Pass of International Space Station over Perth Tonight
A very bright International Space Station will pass over Perth and South-West Western Australia tonight just after 6pm.
If you look up and the sky is clear as forecast, Perth’s 2 million inhabitants will be able to view the ISS for around 6-minutes, as it passes from north-west to south-est.
If you look up around 6.04pm you’ll see it appear to the north-west of the city, as it travels over the Indian Ocean.
By 6.07pm the ISS will be directly over Perth city, with a -3.2 magnitude brightness, meaning the Space Station will be quite clearly visible.
The ISS has been circling our planet for nearly 20-years, but rarely does it pass right over the city at such a convenient time for us.
We were alerted to the Passover by Space enthusiast Ingnazio Magnani, who is often confused by media as an actual ISS astronaut.
Perth!??
The @Space_Station is visible
to the naked?eye at 6:06pm ⏰
.
?@tweetperth @BOM_WA @abcperth @LisaScafPerthLM @Badruddeen @TheWAWG pic.twitter.com/7xYrsw8qjn— Ignazio Magnani (@IgnazioMagnani) June 29, 2017
When, where and what are we looking at?
Look up at 6.04pm (maybe go outside a few minutes earlier to adjust your eyes)
Look about 10 degrees above the horizon to the north-west, it’ll appear to be moving at speed toward Perth, flying over about 50km to the north-east of the Perth CBD at 6.07pm, at 75 degrees above the horizon.
The Passover should be visible right up to 6.10pm as the ISS moves to the SE.
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Perth from Space
What Perth looks like from the ISS while it passes over Perth. Photo from NASA taken by Astronauts in the ISS.
Western Australia as seen from Space
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