If the weather cooperates, Honolulu residents will have a spectacular view of the International Space Station as it passes overhead Thursday night.

The station will rise in the southwest at 7:55 p.m. and move to the left, reaching its highest point — about halfway up the sky — at 8 p.m. above a nearly full moon.

It will disappear into the earth’s shadow at 8:03 p.m.

The show will repeat Saturday evening, when the space station will rise in the southwest about 7:35 p.m., this time moving to the right, passing just above the planet Saturn and under the bright star Arcturus, or Hokule‘a. After passing above the Big Dipper, it will set in the northeast at 7:46 p.m. near the constellation Cassiopeia.

Earlier risers can also see the station on Friday morning, when it will rise in the northwest at 5:41 a.m. and arc across the top of the sky, passing very near Jupiter, which will be straight up. It will blink out of sight in the southeast at around 5:50 a.m.

At an altitude of 217 miles, the space station is traveling at a speed of about 17,200 mph, completing an orbit every 92 minutes. It appears as a bright, steady (not blinking) light as it is illuminated by the sun against the dark sky just after sunset or before dawn.

Currently aboard are three Russian, one Japanese and two American astronauts, Ronald Garan and Michael Fossum.

With the end of the U.S. space shuttle program, the space station is accessible only by Russian Soyuz spacecraft.