International Space Station visible over PHL Thursday

Skywatchers across the Philippines can catch a glimpse of the International Space Station (ISS) as it flies overhead Thursday evening, May 26.

At a maximum brightness of magnitude -3.3 as its peak, the ISS will be brighter than most stars in the sky.

It will also be moving quite fast: the entire pass across the sky will take just under ten minutes, from 7:27 p.m. to 7:39 p.m.

Astronaut Ignazio Magnani gave a heads-up that the station will be visible to the naked eye directly overhead in Manila at around 7:31 p.m. Philippine Time.

Hello Manila ????????
The @Space_Station is visible naked????eye at 19:31 ?@CheckLit @cesdrilon @tjmanotoc @atomaraullo pic.twitter.com/yHWfJi8vgN

— Ignazio Magnani (@IgnazioMagnani) May 26, 2016

The ISS will also be visible to skywatchers outside of the capital, but lower in the sky.

People outside of the country can still share in the excitement by following the ISS in real time as it moves around the earth on the map below:

The ISS will be visible again from the Philippines but at a lower altitude tomorrow evening, May 27, between 6:34 p.m. and 6:45 p.m. — GMA News