Get Up Close and Personal With Mars on Wednesday

The brightest star in the sky is now the ISS - will it be that bright?

Hope this info is correct...

http://www.hoax-slayer.com/mars-earth-close.html

This is not the Mars hoax that comes around every year, this one's legit.

I guess Venus (once known as Hesperus and Phosphorus) must be hiding about now. Several man-made satellites have been visible to the naked eye, but I didn't know they were brighter than Mars, except maybe on a good day for them and a bad day for Mars....

If you haven't seen the ISS lately, you should. It's amazingly bright now that it's mostly complete. You can just make out the X of the solar arrays. You can go here to find out when it's visible from your location:

http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/sightings/

It's only visible for a few minutes each time it orbits - it looks like a fast moving jet, but the lights don't blink.