Space shuttle is spotted over London

This is the moment the Space Shuttle Endeavour docked with the International Space Station - as seen from London.

At 4.58am today, anyone who happened to be awake could have looked up and seen strange lights moving slowly across the sky.

It was the Nasa shuttle delivering astronauts and a Japanese lab to the ISS.

London Lite photographer Jeremy Selwyn took the shot in east London using specialist equipment to make out the shape of the shuttle.

He said: "The craft will be visible again tomorrow, but this was taken when it was docking, so that was exciting. It rose in the southern sky and moved across London fairly slowly.

You could see it with the naked eye - but what you saw was a triangular shape with three bright lights pointing downwards.

"To make it out clearly,

I used a very long lens, a telephoto 400mm lens, but it still wasn't long enough, so I also used a 2X converter to see it properly."

Seconds after the shuttle launched in Florida yesterday its nose was struck, possibly by a bird, and a thermal tile is thought to have fallen off. The crew will be checking for any damage.