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Old 22nd Oct 2020, 17:37
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Had a lovely view of the ISS one night - noticed it was coming on the Portuguese coast around Porto so nipped up to my bedroom which faces SSE. Could see it clearly all the way across the Europe until it disappeared behind the flats opposite, probably near Warsaw or somewhere like that. In doing so it passed over the newly risen fullish moon and afterwards I could mentally trace its curved path from horizon to horizon - the earth is flat? Had another great view from Fort William - it was over Penzance when we spotted it!
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