Spot the space station

It’s International Space Station time for Geraldton with a couple of good passes coming up, starting tonight.

The space station circles the Earth every 90 minutes at 28,000km/h, which gives the crew 16 sunrises and sunsets every day.

Unlike the moon, the space station is not bright enough to see during the day.

In the more than 15 years that people have been living onboard, it has circumnavigated the Earth tens of thousands of times.

You can see the space station with your bare eyes, no equipment required.

Head outside for a peek tonight at 8.59pm and look low to the south. Wait for a very bright light moving fairly quickly across the skyline.

If you miss out, the next best sighting time will be on Monday at 7.58pm — a magic five-minute pass starting in the south-south-west.