thanks so much for the heads-up...
a fun thing to see tonight!

I went out to see if I could catch a glimpse of it and was out a couple times, had to get warmer coat due to wind chill - and walked out to the opening where I can see a lot of sky and watched for several minutes. The first time i was looking, a few minutes early for the ISS to go by, and I saw something passing overhead from due north to due south, took about 45 seconds to cover the greater portion of the arc of the sky. The second time, about three minutes early for my location and I saw yet another "thing" go from north to south, directly overhead... not the ISS either in reference to the web site, and as I was walking back to the house, I saw yet another "thing" passing a little to the east of me but going from south to north. These all were within fifteen minutes' time and they all took about 45 seconds to cross the greater portion of the arc of the sky. Didn't see the ISS either, too far north. Darn.

ISS was way north of me. I'm near 44.65N and it passed over somewhere near 51.5N so I wasn't going to see it after all, but I saw a bunch of other stuff! Not under a major cross-over point for commercial flight even when they're at 35.000ft. If it's not completely overcast or way too windy, there's always something to see out there in the night sky. Some of those things move pretty darn fast.

I'm amazed at how much stuff there is flying around up there!

Here's a link to find when you can see the ISS:

http://spotthestation.nasa.gov/sightings/index.cfm#.UrpNMLQhXwI

I already have that, which is why I knew it was probably too far north. It's pretty dark around here, no lights at my doorstep and gleaming out of the windows. I'm kind of remote, but that means I can go outside at night and get some hair-raising views of things in the sky with just some decent binos.

I am glad you made mention of the ISS because It encouraged me to bundle up and go out to what I could anyway. There's kind of a spooky wind whipping the trees around so staying out long isn't wise. I think all the bears are bedded down by now but I still have to be wary, I'm isolated so mishaps can be really dangerous.

But Maybe I was just seeing Santa out there rushing across the sky!