just saw the space station fly over ... There are a couple of steps more tonight and this weekend if the weather. Here is the website of the space station and other satellites flybys.
In addition, the peaks of the Perseids meteor shower tonight and I "have heard of people by Lansdowne who saw some shooting stars while they were watching the space station. It is best to look to the northeast of the shooting stars that appear after more midnight. The grand total of Moon clog many weaknesses, but the brilliant large remain visible.
In case you were wondering, the meteor shower occurs when Earth passes through debris left by the comet ... in this case, Swift-Tuttle. Most of the shooting stars you see are nothing more than a grain of sand / dust incineration, hitting our atmosphere at over 100,000 mph. The larger, brighter type of long duration are usually a bit of fist-sized rock yoru.
