ISS passes tonight over Miami

1 visible pass tonight. First up: Hubble rising at 5:37 AM, peaking 41° up.

Tonight's window

6:00 PM – 6:00 AM

Tue, Sep 1 · EDT

Visible passes

dark sky + sunlit satellite

Observer

25.76°N

80.19°W — Miami center

Elements

Tue, Sep 1

CelesTrak epoch, 11:57 AM UTC

International Space Station

NORAD 25544 · epoch 2026-09-01

No visible ISS pass over Miami tonight — 1 pass in daylight or shadow.

1 pass you will not see (daylight or Earth's shadow)

11:33 PMTue, Sep 1In Earth's shadow — unlit
Rises
11:33 PM
Highest
19° at 11:38 PM
Visible for
10 min · sets 11:43 PM

Tiangong (China Space Station)

NORAD 48274 · epoch 2026-09-01

No visible Tiangong pass over Miami tonight — 2 passes in daylight or shadow.

2 passes you will not see (daylight or Earth's shadow)

1:56 AMWed, Sep 2In Earth's shadow — unlit
Rises
1:56 AM
Highest
36° at 2:01 AM
Visible for
10 min · sets 2:06 AM
3:34 AMWed, Sep 2In Earth's shadow — unlit
Rises
3:34 AM
Highest
19° at 3:38 AM
Visible for
9 min · sets 3:43 AM

Hubble Space Telescope

NORAD 20580 · epoch 2026-09-01

5:37 AMWed, Sep 2Visible — steady moving star
Rises
5:37 AM
Highest
41° at 5:43 AM
Visible for
11 min · sets 5:48 AM
Hubble is dimmer than the ISS — read the brightness one step down.

4 passes you will not see (daylight or Earth's shadow)

10:58 PMTue, Sep 1In Earth's shadow — unlit
Rises
10:58 PM
Highest
21° at 11:04 PM
Visible for
11 min · sets 11:09 PM
12:37 AMWed, Sep 2In Earth's shadow — unlit
Rises
12:37 AM
Highest
75° at 12:43 AM
Visible for
12 min · sets 12:49 AM
2:17 AMWed, Sep 2In Earth's shadow — unlit
Rises
2:17 AM
Highest
56° at 2:23 AM
Visible for
12 min · sets 2:29 AM
3:57 AMWed, Sep 2In Earth's shadow — unlit
Rises
3:57 AM
Highest
70° at 4:03 AM
Visible for
12 min · sets 4:09 AM

Orbital elements: CelesTrak, epoch 2026-09-01 11:57 UTC. Elevation-only predictor (no direction of travel); passes above 10°; darkness = sun below −6° at Miami; shadow check at each pass's peak. All times EDT. Computed 10:51 PM, refreshed every 30 minutes.

How to spot the ISS

Be outside two minutes before the rise time with as much open sky as you can find. City lights are fine — the station outshines them.
Look for a steady, un-blinking star moving about as fast as a high airliner. No flashing lights, no sound. If it blinks, it is a plane.
It is brightest near the “highest” time on the card — that is when it is closest to you. Passes above 60° go almost overhead.
If it fades out mid-sky, that is normal — it just flew into Earth's shadow. Wave anyway; the crew is up there.

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Frequently asked

How bright is the ISS?

On a high pass the International Space Station reaches magnitude −3 to −6 — brighter than any star and comparable to Venus — a steady white point that does not blink and makes no sound. Tiangong is a step dimmer (about −1 to −3) and Hubble is a faint, steady star (+1 to +2) that wants a dark sky. Our brightness hint uses peak elevation only: passes above 60° are the bright ones; below 30° the object stays low in haze.

Why do passes end abruptly?

A satellite is visible only while it is in sunlight and you are in darkness. When it flies into Earth's shadow it fades out over a few seconds — often still high in the sky. That is not cloud: it is orbital sunset. Passes an hour or two after dusk usually end this way; passes before dawn often begin this way, with the station appearing out of nothing overhead.

Why are there no passes over Miami some nights?

The ISS orbits at 51.6° inclination and its ground track drifts west about 22° each orbit, so it overflies Miami in runs of a week or two, then swings away for a similar stretch. Even when it does pass over, the sun angle has to line up so the station is lit while your sky is dark. Tiangong (41.5°) and Hubble (28.5°) never climb high for cities north of those latitudes — Miami is at 25.8°N.