See the ISS from Karbala, Iraq

The International Space Station is visible from Karbala 10 times in the next 10 days. The brightest is on Tue 10 Nov at 18:12 (very bright, 59° up).

When	Brightness	Where to look
Wed 4 Nov 04:42–04:45	Very bright mag -3.1	Appears NE, 53° up Highest 53° up in the NE Disappears ESE, 10° up
Thu 5 Nov 03:57–03:57	Faint mag -0.5	Appears E, 12° up Highest 12° up in the E Disappears E, 10° up
Thu 5 Nov 05:30–05:33	Bright mag -2.2	Appears WSW, 17° up Highest 20° up in the SW Disappears S, 10° up
Fri 6 Nov 04:45–04:46	Fairly bright mag -1.9	Appears S, 24° up Highest 24° up in the S Disappears SSE, 10° up
Sat 7 Nov 18:56–18:56	Fairly bright mag -1.0	Appears SSW, 10° up Highest 13° up in the S Disappears S, 13° up
Sun 8 Nov 18:09–18:11	Fairly bright mag -1.8	Appears SSE, 10° up Highest 16° up in the SE Disappears SE, 16° up
Mon 9 Nov 18:57–18:59	Bright mag -2.4	Appears SW, 10° up Highest 40° up in the WSW Disappears WSW, 40° up
Tue 10 Nov 18:09–18:14	Very bright mag -3.7	Appears SSW, 10° up Highest 59° up in the SE Disappears ENE, 30° up
Wed 11 Nov 18:59–19:01	Fairly bright mag -1.5	Appears W, 10° up Highest 21° up in the NW Disappears NW, 21° up
Thu 12 Nov 18:11–18:16	Bright mag -2.5	Appears WSW, 10° up Highest 35° up in the NW Disappears NNE, 17° up

Times are local to Karbala (Asia/Baghdad). Directions are compass points; 90° up is straight overhead. Lower magnitude means brighter.

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

Coming up in the sky over Karbala

Mars and Jupiter conjunction: Mon 16 Nov, 05:34: 1.2° apart, 69° up in the south-east
Leonid meteor shower: Night of 16–17 Nov: 01:11–05:07, up to about 14 an hour
Night of 17–18 Nov: 01:07–05:08, up to about 14 an hour
Geminid meteor shower: Night of 13–14 Dec: 20:47–05:27, up to about 150 an hour
Night of 14–15 Dec: 21:43–05:27, up to about 150 an hour

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 Iraq

Baghdad · Al Mawsil al Jadidah · Mosul · Erbil · Basrah · Sadr City · Kirkuk · Abu Ghurayb

Updated 3 November 2026 at 07:00 UTC, from ISS orbit elements 0.5 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.