Help please, I need some info.
One of the meteo sites I follow is Clear Outside and it tells me when the ISS passes over. Is this something I can see with the naked eye? (Assuming no cloud cover of course.) If so, what am I looking for?
Also, there’s a really bright object in the sky at night - south eastish, lowish on the horizon. I think it doesn’t move. Last night, about 6pm it was below the moon and to the left in about the 7 o’clock position. Is it a satellite? Does this make sense?
Low earth orbit satellites move across the sky, and if big and shiny enough are visible with the naked eye , as is the ISS. Its normally a planet that is bright and not noticeably moving (Venus, Mars or Jupiter).
PS I’m not an astronomer 
I think it’s too bright and big for a planet.
I’m wondering if it is this …
Jupiter was at the 7 position to the moon the other night… it was glorious to see 'em both shining so brightly.
and yes. I used to wave at the ISS when it goes over… haven’t done that for a few years though… must start again.
I can spot it with my normal spectacles…
Low earth orbit satellites move fairly rapidly across the sky, I doubt it was one. I think someone on here @hairbear maybe knows more about this stuff .
I’ll leave you to it… lunch is beckoning
I think it was Jupiter - according to my StarWalk 2 app Jupiter was in that position at the time you mentioned.
Jupiter will be at its closest point to Earth on December 6th this year so that would account for it being noticeably bright.
Thanks Chris. I wonder if it was what I’ve circled? Unfortunately the next few nights are very cloudy.
Sounds like a good app to have. 
I have no idea where to look or how fast it moves, so how am I going to be able to wave at it???
Your app should tell you the time, its a bright white moving dot moving across the sky, generally south west to north east. You might see it, but they can’t see you so wont wave back😉
I use that for astro weather and it’s very good. The ISS is very bright, but it moves quite quickly as it’s in low earth orbit.
Are you talking about something you saw last night ? Last night, the Moon rose at about 5.30PM in the North East. There was a very bright object, Venus in the South East low down at 7PM.
If you have a PC (or Mac) you can use a piece of free software called Stellarium to find out what is in the sky at any given time from any given point on Earth. This is why I know where the Moon and Venus were last night. There is also an Android/iThing app but it’s nowhere near as good.
No that’s a star (Beta Tauri) - Jupiter is marked on the chart in red slightly below the dotted line (the plane of the ecliptic).
Jupiter would easily outshine any of the stars in that field of view.
Venus would have been near the setting sun as its orbit is inside Earth’s so it’s always positioned close to the Sun when viewed from Earth. And the sun sets in the west / south west not the south east.
What Sue saw was near the rising Moon which is on the opposite side of the sky so it can only have been Jupiter.
and it did… the moon and Jupiter seemed to be the only ones in the night sky… in my field of sight as I just stood at the open window and gazed in awe…
Later, the other less-bright objects could be seen… but they had to wait their turn.
Hmmmm… At 6.37PM French time, at my location (Sue is not too far from me) Jupiter was below the horizon. Have you done this at your location in the UK at 6.37PM UK time ?
At 6 PM French time last night, not far from Sue, the moon was only 2 degrees above the horizon, and Jupiter was below it. This is why I questioned the sighting.
Yes if you look at my screenshot of the app.
So probably Sue saw the Moon and Jupiter an hour later French time.
But it definitely would not have been Venus next to the Moon last night as the Moon is just past full so still opposite the Sun in the sky.
Thanks Chris. I just thought my 7pm thingy was a bit higher up the the Jupiter one.
Remind me to take a photo next time!
Not in that position, no, so Sue must have got the time wrong by well over an hour.
Is that 7 o’clock position or 7PM ? Your post said 6PM at 7 o’clock position
Maybe were all mixing the two up 
My moon definitely in the east/ south east by the time I saw it. And the bright object was below it to the left.
7oclock - position of bright object relative to moon.
6pm (French time) - time I noticed it - I thought. But maybe it was later since you said the moon rose in the NE and by the time I saw it, it was definitely SE. me looking straight ahead, not having to look up very much.
