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-27.47°S, 153.03°E · Australia/Brisbane · all times below are local

At 27.5°S the station can pass close to overhead; this week's highest pass reaches 75° to the north-north-east and the sky stays properly dark for 8.0 hours.

orbits & twilight computed 2026-10-29 20:54 UTC FRESH · 8 min ago

The sky is properly dark from 19:36 to 03:36 (8.0 hours); ISS makes its next visible pass at 19:26, reaching 33° to the north-west; Saturn is the highest planet at 61° to the north-north-east, around 21:54; the Moon is 82% lit (Waning gibbous).

Dark window
8.0h
sun below −18°
Next pass
19:26
ISS · NW · 33°
Highest pass
75°
NNE
Moon lit
82%
34.9° peak
Satellite passes — next 5 days ISS · Tiangong · Hubble · above 10° under a dark sky
ISSFri 30 Oct19:26–19:36 (10 min)33° NWSW → NNE
TiangongSat 31 Oct01:11–01:20 (9 min)22° NENNW → ESE
TiangongSat 31 Oct02:48–02:57 (10 min)33° SWWNW → SE
HubbleSat 31 Oct03:26–03:37 (10 min)27° NNENW → E
ISSSat 31 Oct18:38–18:48 (10 min)74° NWSW → NE
TiangongSun 01 Nov00:12–00:20 (8 min)10° NEN → E
TiangongSun 01 Nov01:48–01:58 (10 min)66° SWNW → SE
HubbleSun 01 Nov02:53–03:04 (10 min)26° NNENW → E
HubbleMon 02 Nov02:20–02:31 (11 min)25° NNENW → E
HubbleMon 02 Nov03:59–04:10 (12 min)75° NNEWNW → E
ISSMon 02 Nov18:40–18:49 (9 min)17° NWWSW → N

Tonight's timelineBrisbane · 18:12 → 05:00

Interactive plan →
Moon35° N
Saturn61° NNE
Mars32° NE
Jupiter30° E
Venus11°
Mercurybelow 10°
18:1220:2122:3100:4102:5005:00
Best targetshighest first
01Saturn19:06–01:4861° NNEup 18:12–03:00
02Mars03:24–04:0032° NEup 02:00–05:00
03Jupiter03:36–04:0030° Eup 02:18–05:00
04Venusup 05:0011° up 05:00–05:00

At 82% illuminated the Moon is the brightest thing in the sky tonight and will wash out fainter targets while it is up. Look for the planets anyway — they cut through moonlight better than almost anything else.

How passes work

We track three objects bright enough to be worth going outside for: the ISS, China's Tiangong station and the Hubble Space Telescope. Each orbits at roughly 7.5 km/s and comes round every 90–95 minutes, but a pass only counts as visible when the object is sunlit while your sky is dark — which is why they cluster in the two hours after sunset and before sunrise.

Elevation is the angle above your horizon. 10° is easy to spot if you know where to look; 45° is unmistakable — brighter than any star, moving like an aircraft that makes no sound. The last column tells you where to look first and where it will disappear.

Hubble is far fainter than the two stations: treat it as a dark-sky target for people who already know the sky, not a first sighting.

Positions from SGP4 propagation of the current Celestrak TLEs, checked against your coordinates; accuracy a few kilometres, which for “is it over my head” is plenty. A stale TLE drifts by seconds, not by orbits.

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