The brightest man-made light in the sky is scheduled to make a spectacular appearance across the skies of Hawke's Bay this Saturday.
Like many avid sky-watchers, Napier astronomer Gary Sparks is looking forward to seeing the overhead passing of the international space station and said, weather willing, it would be impossible to miss.
"It will be a really bright pass - this is a magnitude -3.3 and they don't get much brighter than that," Mr Sparks said.
"It will appear out of the northwest at 8.45pm and pass directly overhead at 8.48pm - it will be visible for another three minutes after that."
At this stage the prospects of getting a good view of the space station are not too bad with the Metservice long-range forecast for the Bay being mainly fine but partly cloudy with light winds.