I have an iPhone. One of my favorite apps is called Star Walk. I put it on the phone one night while waking outside with the boy. He likes looking at stars and I wanted to be able to name some of them. Nowadays, I can actually name a few constellations without help.
But the really cool part was tonight. Whole family was outside and I noticed a light moving… but it wasn’t a plane. Christina whipped out my phone ( I had both kids, one per arm) and she pointed the phone with the app going in the general direction of our fast moving ‘star’ and said ” hey, that is the ISS!”
I’ve never actually seen it go by and known what it was; thanks to the phone and the app, I can now say that we saw the ISS go by one night.
Wasn’t that cool??
I got to see it too – but I knew it was up there to be found. Tonight it was exceptionally bright – it transits every night, but generally you need binoculars or some such (telescope isn’t much use as it’s hard to track that fast)
How much of the transit did you get to see? It was very cloudy here and I didn’t spot it till it was well past zenith.
But it was still super cool. Very glad you got a chance to see it as well.
Clear night, so we got to watch it from the point of noticing it until the house was in the way of seeing it anymore. No binoculars here, so it was just watching a bright shining spot zip across the sky.