The space station will pass very close to the Moon this Friday and will be seen with the naked eye in Santa Fe

It will be a spectacle for sky photographers.

Time and location in the sky

The International Space Station (ISS) will pass this Friday through the sky of the city of Santa Fe at 6:54 p.m..

It will be seen as a star that runs across the sky with a size a little smaller than that of the planet Venus (seen from Earth) and a little larger than that of the planet Mars (seen from Earth).

It will only be a few minutes the ISS will travel across the sky from northwest to southwestpassing very close to the Moon. This was confirmed in AIR the Puntano astronomer Conrado Kurtzdirector of the astronomical observatory Sky Viewpoint.

Who is on the space station

Currently, the space station is crewed by seven astronauts, including the first astronauts to travel with the Starliner spacecraft. Boeingthe competition for Elon Musk’s company’s Dragon ship, SpaceX.

“The idea of POT is to have several competitors as suppliers, not just SpaceX. Boeing was delayed for many years, since this launch should have occurred two or three years ago and was postponed. In fact, a couple of Starliner astronauts traveled on the SpaceX Dragon due to the difficulties it had launching. Finally, Boeing’s mission with astronauts heading to the space station was successfully launched a few days ago and now they are there”Kurtz explained in AIR.