This weekend presents one of the final chances to see Comet NEOWISE in the skies over Cambridgeshire - and if that's not enough, the International Space Station will also be visible.

While the comet was at its brightest on Thursday and Friday nights, it will still be visible over Saturday and Sunday (July 25 and 26), before gradually fading from view over the course of the remainder of July.

It's one of the brightest comets to pass over the Earth in recent history, making it easy to spot without a telescope or binoculars.

The experts say that the comet can be seen best approximately two hours after sunset and to track it down, first you need to find a constellation in the night sky.

Space.com says to find The Plough, also known as the Big Dipper, and go approximately 15 degrees, or one and half fists, down and to the lower left of the bottom of the "bowl" of the constellation.

The comet was at its closest to the Earth on Thursday but by tonight (Saturday July 25) the comet will have moved so that it is directly underneath the Plough.

The International Space Station (ISS) orbits the Earth about 16 times a day at a height of 400 km.

There will be three opportunities to see it on Saturday night and after that it will not be visible again until Sunday.

The times are:

Saturday, July 25, 9.43pm

Saturday, July 25, 10.30pm

Saturday, July 25, 11.18pm

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