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ASTRONOMY with David RenekeGeraldton Guardian It’s International Space Station time for Geraldton with a couple of good passes coming up, starting tonight. The space station circles the
Earth every 90 minutes at 28,000km/h, which gives the crew 16 sunrises and sunsets every day. Unlike the moon, the space station is not bright enough to see during the day. In the more than
15 years that people have been living onboard, it has circumnavigated the Earth tens of thousands of times. You can see the space station with your bare eyes, no equipment required. Head
outside for a peek tonight at 8.59pm and look low to the south. Wait for a very bright light moving fairly quickly across the skyline. If you miss out, the next best sighting time will be on
Monday at 7.58pm — a magic five-minute pass starting in the south-south-west. GET THE LATEST NEWS FROM THEWEST.COM.AU IN YOUR INBOX. Sign up for our emails