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Yellowknife 耶洛奈夫

62.45°N, 114.37°W · America/Yellowknife · all times below are local

At 62.5°N the orbit's 51.6° inclination caps the station at about 79° above your horizon; this week's highest pass reaches 14° to the south and the sky stays properly dark for 10.2 hours.

orbits & twilight computed 2026-10-29 21:16 UTC FRESH · 49 min ago

The sky is properly dark from 20:16 to 06:28 (10.2 hours); ISS makes its next visible pass at 03:57, reaching 14° to the south; Mars is the highest planet at 43° to the north-north-east, around 07:16; the Moon is 82% lit (Waning gibbous).

Dark window
10.2h
sun below −18°
Next pass
03:57
ISS · S · 14°
Highest pass
14°
S
Moon lit
82%
54.2° peak
Satellite passes — next 14 days ISS · Tiangong · Hubble · above 10° under a dark sky
ISSFri 30 Oct03:57–04:06 (8 min)14° SSW → ESE
ISSFri 30 Oct05:33–05:41 (8 min)12° SSWWSW → SE
ISSSat 31 Oct03:10–03:18 (8 min)13° SSESW → ESE
ISSSat 31 Oct04:46–04:54 (8 min)13° SSWWSW → SE
ISSSun 01 Nov01:23–01:31 (8 min)12° SSESW → ESE
ISSSun 01 Nov02:58–03:07 (9 min)14° SWSW → SE
ISSMon 02 Nov00:35–00:44 (8 min)10° SSESSW → ESE
ISSMon 02 Nov02:11–02:20 (9 min)14° SWSW → ESE
ISSMon 02 Nov03:47–03:55 (8 min)10° SSWWSW → SSE
ISSTue 03 Nov01:24–01:32 (8 min)13° SSW → ESE
ISSTue 03 Nov03:00–03:08 (8 min)12° SSWWSW → SE
ISSWed 04 Nov00:36–00:45 (8 min)13° SSESW → ESE

Tonight's timelineYellowknife · 17:46 → 09:04

Interactive plan →
Moon54° WSW
Mars43° NNE
Jupiter39° N
Saturn29° SSW
Venusbelow 10°
Mercurybelow 10°
17:4620:5023:5302:5706:0109:04
Best targetshighest first
01Mars03:52–07:1643° NNEup 01:40–09:04
02Jupiter04:40–07:1639° Nup 02:28–09:04
03Saturn21:46–01:3429° SSWup 19:04–04:22

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.

Nearby citiesclosest by distance, each recomputed for its own coordinates

All 170 cities →
2026-10-30 · 2 次
03:57ISSSW → ESE · 8.5 分钟14° S
05:33ISSWSW → SE · 8 分钟12° SSW
2026-10-31 · 2 次
03:10ISSSW → ESE · 8.5 分钟13° SSE
04:46ISSWSW → SE · 8.5 分钟13° SSW
2026-11-01 · 2 次
01:23ISSSW → ESE · 8.5 分钟12° SSE
02:58ISSWSW → SE · 9 分钟14° S
2026-11-02 · 3 次
00:35ISSSSW → ESE · 8.5 分钟10° SSE
02:11ISSWSW → ESE · 9 分钟14° S
03:47ISSWSW → SSE · 8.5 分钟10° SSW
2026-11-03 · 2 次
01:24ISSSW → ESE · 8.5 分钟13° S
03:00ISSWSW → SE · 8 分钟12° SSW
2026-11-04 · 1 次
00:36ISSSW → ESE · 8.5 分钟13° SSE

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