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A sharpshooter on Reddit posted a pretty incredible snapshot to the Space subreddit over the weekend: The International Space Station, as seen from his backyard on Saturday night.<\/p>\n
The user, who goes by 120decibel, explained that he nabbed the shot using what sounds like a relatively expensive telescoping rig (upwards of $7,000, according to another users estimate), and manually tracked the ISS in the night sky with a viewfinder (as it moves a a pretty fast clip at about 17,500 MPH).<\/p>\n
You might not have a $7,000 telescoping rig and enough experience to nail thing thing in a viewfinder tonight, but according to another user on the same post, its not impossible to see it with the naked eye, explaining that it looks like a bright star about 30 degrees above the horizon that crosses about a quarter of the sky and lasts for two minutes.<\/p>\n
They go on: It can very easily be missed or mistaken for a plane. Good passes can be brighter than any other planet or star in the night sky and just barely below the limit to see during the day.<\/p>\n
If you want to give it a shot yourself, they pointed us to Heavens Above, where you can find a list of visible ISS passes for the next few weeks, here.<\/p>\n
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