International Space Station passing over Lough Corrib

ISS montage
On Saturday night/Sunday morning, the International Space Station was visible in the night sky as it flew over Ireland. The three images above show the ISS as a streak of light as it passed over Lough Corrib at 11.30pm Saturday night [middle picture], just after 1 am on Sunday morning [top picture] and 2.43 am [bottom picture]. Though I didn’t notice it at the time, there was another object visible in the sky (left, in the bottom picture) – either a shooting star or an Iridium flare. In the top two pictures, the land formation in the foreground is Drumsnauv (& the Hill of Doon) (Google Maps link here), the entrance to a narrow channel in Lough Corrib, at the northern end of the lake. You can see another picture of the lake, taken from the same position, in this picture, taken two and a half years ago. The lights at the other side of the lake are from Headford (where Ross Errilly is located).

As the ISS appeared overhead on the final pass of the night, I could still hear a cuckoo down in the valley near Cornamona that had begun calling around midnight.