How To See The International Space Station
The international space station becomes so visible to us because it reflects the light from the sun just like the moon.
How to see the international space station. The space station usually looks like a moving dot or small white or yellowish sphere. Watch the international space station pass overhead from several thousand worldwide locations. Visible to the naked eye it looks like a fast moving plane only much higher and traveling thousands of miles an hour faster.
It is the third brightest object in the sky and easy to spot if you know when to look up. Each time it passes it is in a different position at different time. That s the number of times the international space station was spotted in a particular city.
Look for the space station at this position. However unlike the moon the space station isn t bright enough to see. The space station is visible because it reflects the light of the sun the same reason we can see the moon nasa said.
Blue pins appear when you click on the map or search your city to show you the nearest sighting opportunities.