Determined night watchers in North America can experience a close encounter of the visual kind in the coming weeks, as a spaceship brighter than any star makes its way across the sky.

The craft will make repeated passes over the United States and Canada between late July and mid-August, at times surpassing in brightness all other nocturnal objects save the moon.

During typical cameos in the sky, the multibillion-dollar ship appears as a dim point near the horizon, then quickly brightens as it glides across the heavens for anywhere from three to six minutes

Using a small telescope viewers should be able to see the solar panels on the side of the station its so close and clear!

what a crok s***

what u mean crok o' s*** u tard!

its true, u can normally see the station in most northern areas, but it looks like a very bright star, bbut u cant really make out much more than that, even with a telescope it looks like a fuzzy blob, although with a scope its a bit easier to tell what it is.

its only in the sky for a few minutes.

chris, any more dumb posts like that ill kick your a**!

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