See the ISS from Ankara, Turkey

The International Space Station is visible from Ankara 8 times in the next 10 days. The brightest is on Wed 11 Nov at 19:01 (very bright, 44° up).

When	Brightness	Where to look
Wed 4 Nov 04:42–04:42	Faint mag -0.5	Appears ESE, 11° up Highest 11° up in the ESE Disappears ESE, 10° up
Wed 4 Nov 06:15–06:17	Fairly bright mag -1.9	Appears WSW, 16° up Highest 16° up in the SW Disappears S, 10° up
Thu 5 Nov 05:30–05:31	Fairly bright mag -1.3	Appears S, 16° up Highest 16° up in the S Disappears SSE, 10° up
Mon 9 Nov 18:58–18:59	Fairly bright mag -1.5	Appears SSE, 10° up Highest 14° up in the SE Disappears SE, 14° up
Tue 10 Nov 19:45–19:47	Fairly bright mag -1.7	Appears SW, 10° up Highest 25° up in the SW Disappears SW, 25° up
Wed 11 Nov 18:58–19:01	Very bright mag -3.4	Appears SSW, 10° up Highest 44° up in the SE Disappears ESE, 41° up
Thu 12 Nov 18:11–18:16	Bright mag -2.4	Appears S, 10° up Highest 25° up in the SE Disappears E, 11° up
Thu 12 Nov 19:47–19:49	Fairly bright mag -1.7	Appears W, 10° up Highest 27° up in the WNW Disappears WNW, 27° up

Times are local to Ankara (Europe/Istanbul). Directions are compass points; 90° up is straight overhead. Lower magnitude means brighter.

Also for Ankara: dark-sky calendar, the moonless hours each night.

How to spot it

Be outside a few minutes early, facing where it appears. The ISS looks like a bright, steady star moving across the sky. It doesn’t blink, and it crosses in a few minutes. It often vanishes before reaching the horizon as it passes into Earth’s shadow.

Other cities in Turkey

Istanbul · Bursa · Izmir · Gaziantep · Diyarbakir · Adana · Kayseri · Konya

Updated 3 November 2026 at 04:00 UTC, from ISS orbit elements 0.4 days old. The station sometimes fires its engines to raise its orbit, which shifts times by a few seconds or more, so check again on the day. How these predictions are made.