DRAGUIGNAN (83) 22.08.2012

On 22 August 2012 at 22:18, a family watching the starry sky saw a large luminous ball pass slowly and silently, dim and disappear. The description fully matches the International Space Station (see the Calsky ISS-pass document). In the second document, the sky chart's white circles mark successive ISS positions, with larger circles indicating greater brightness. Its apparent motion was slow at the start; as it moved east, it entered Earth's shadow, lost sunlight and became invisible. The case is classified A: ISS pass.