When can I see the ISS over Catania tonight?

The next ISS pass over Catania starts at 06:31 local time on Monday 19 Oct, reaching 14° above the horizon — and it is visible to the naked eye.

Which direction should I look?

The ISS always moves from roughly west to east. It looks like a very bright, fast, non-blinking star crossing the whole sky in a few minutes.

ISS over Catania — next pass times

Upcoming International Space Station passes over Catania, Italy for the next 3 days, in local Catania time — computed from the latest orbital data and refreshed automatically.

🛰 Next ISS pass over Catania

Monday 19 Oct · 06:31 · 14°

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🛰 Next visible pass after this one over Catania: Tue 20 Oct, 05:43

We'll email you the day before — and before every genuinely visible pass after that. Most crossings happen in daylight; we skip those.

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Date	Local time	Max height	Lasts	Viewing
Monday 19 Oct	06:31 visible 06:31–06:34	14°	~4 min	possible
Monday 19 Oct	09:47	13°	~4 min	☀ daylight
Monday 19 Oct	11:23	61°	~7 min	☀ daylight

Monday 19 Oct	13:01	12°	~3 min	☀ daylight
Tuesday 20 Oct	04:05	63°	~7 min	🌑 in Earth's shadow
Tuesday 20 Oct	05:43	18°	~5 min	possible
Tuesday 20 Oct	09:01	10°	~1 min	☀ daylight
Tuesday 20 Oct	10:36	36°	~6 min	☀ daylight
Tuesday 20 Oct	12:13	21°	~6 min	☀ daylight
Wednesday 21 Oct	03:18	33°	~6 min	🌑 in Earth's shadow
Wednesday 21 Oct	04:55	26°	~6 min	🌑 in Earth's shadow
Wednesday 21 Oct	09:48	24°	~6 min	☀ daylight
Wednesday 21 Oct	11:25	37°	~7 min	☀ daylight
Thursday 22 Oct	02:31	19°	~5 min	🌑 in Earth's shadow
Thursday 22 Oct	04:07	40°	~7 min	🌑 in Earth's shadow

When will the International Space Station pass over Catania?

ISS stands for the International Space Station — the largest and brightest human-made object in orbit around Earth. Passes over Catania above 10° in the next 10 days: 51. Of those, visible to the naked eye: 5.

The next pass of the International Space Station over Catania is on Monday 19 Oct at 06:31 local time, reaching 14° above the horizon. That is also the next one you can see with the naked eye.

How to spot it

Look for a bright, fast “star” that doesn't blink — the ISS outshines everything except the Moon and Venus.
It moves west to east, crossing the whole sky in 3–6 minutes.
Evening and pre-dawn passes are the visible ones — the station must be sunlit while your sky is dark. Daytime passes in the table are invisible to the eye.
Catania sits within the ISS's orbital band, so it can pass nearly straight overhead — those 70°+ passes are spectacular.

🔭 See it better — the rest of your night sky

You need nothing for the ISS: it is brighter than any star. A pair of binoculars is for everything else up there — Moon craters, Jupiter's moons, star clusters and the fainter satellites the eye misses.

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Cheapest real option that works — 7× is very easy to keep on a moving satellite, great starter/kids pair.

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Nikon Aculon A211 10x50 · ~$110

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Red light headlamp · ~$15

Preserves dark adaptation; the difference between seeing 50 stars and 500.

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