Clear skies for space station over NZ

Nasa

PERFECT VIEW: Clear Skies mean that New Zealanders chould get a clear view of the International Space Station as it passes overhead tonight.

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New Zealand will get a perfect view of the International Space Station (ISS) which will be visible with the naked eye as it passes overhead tonight.

Flying up from the south, at 8.59pm, it will brush the South Island's Cape Farewell and pass over the North Island coast from around Hawera in Taranaki to Whakatane in the Bay of Plenty.

 It will be visible for just under four minutes.

The advantage of tonight's viewing is that much of New Zealand will be in twilight darkness but the ISS will be in bright sunshine - making it much more visible.

Tomorrow night it will be visible from 9.20 pm in the north western skies.

Last weekend Russian Mission Control lifted the ISS's orbit by 5.25 kilometres to over 350 kilometres above Earth in preparation for visits to it next month by US and Russian spacecrafts

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