Strange sky object

[Nathan UK]

Hello there, at around 10pm tonight I went out somewhere with a friend in the car,

i noticed what looked like a star come out of the bright part of the moon , I pointed it out to my friend we pulled over and looked up and watched it fly across the sky then disappear, didn't fade out and there was no clouds. Went from as bright as Jupiter to nothing at all.

my description matches that of a shooting star I guess but I've never seen or heard of one coming out the moon? I also thought a shooting stars brightness fades as it dissapears? I checked online and couldn't find any showers happening tonight so I got curious and thought I would ask you guys for a rational explanation and see if any of you guys seen it?  Any idea what it was guys???

[John]

International Space Station ?

It was due to fly over at 10:00 pm tonight. Magnitude -3.3 so very bright !

The sudden fade out was due to it entering the Earths shadow.

[Knighty2112]

Yep. ISS it was. Here's the path tonight and close to the moon at 10pm.

 

[Nathan UK]

2 minutes ago, Knighty2112 said:

Yep. ISS it was. Here's the path tonight and close to the moon at 10pm.

Thanks for clearing that up mate

12 minutes ago, John said:

International Space Station ?

It was due to fly over at 10:00 pm tonight. Magnitude -3.3 so very bright !

The sudden fade out was due to it entering the Earths shadow.

And thank you also John....

i knew it wasn't a shooting star!!!

just didn't seem right, I've never seen the ISS before and also didn't know things could be blacked out by earths shadow !!! Thanks for the explanation and education guys!

i love sgl! I can wipe my mates eye now who was convinced it was a UFO haha