Hurrah…a good old fashioned non virtual real “spot” at last…..
Nauka just went past shortly before 2300 local, on the schedule and on the predicted track that the heavens-above website had calculated, about 35 minutes after the ISS….(yep, pretty much half a world behind the ISS…)
Pretty cruddy skies (southern France) with cirrus around and some light pollution to the north so it wasn’t the easiest spot, even with binoculars.
As you’d expect because of relative size it’s nowhere near as bright as the ISS, from where I was it tracked through the constellation of Cassiopeia and was about the same brightness as the top left star of the “W”, epsilon Cassiopeia, which gave it a apparent magnitude on this transit of about +3….middlingly bright, nowhere as obvious as the ISS usually is.