"OG" wrote in message
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"ken" wrote in message
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Yesterday evening (Friday) at just after 8pm, I was in my garden and
saw a very bright object (as bright as Venus) moving E-W. It passed
almost directly overhead, and went into eclipse just after passing
through Andromeda, at an altitude of about 45 degrees.

Was this the ISS?

I'm puzzled, because the only other time I've ever seen it, back in
2000, it was a golden colour, and this time it was almost white. Also,
I didn't think the ISS could ever be overhead at my latitude (51
degrees N).

It probably wasn't the ISS as that went over later in the evening (8.50pm
for my location in Cheshire)
If you visit www.heavens-above.com you can find out satellite passages and
predictions for your precise location. Yesterday seems to have been a
particularly rich evening for satellites and rockets, but you can get a
sky map for all those listed to work out which one you saw.

Actually, it could well have been the ISS; I was looking at today's timings,
Friday's passage was at about 20 past 8 and the brightness is about right
too.