See the ISS from Libreville, Gabon

The International Space Station is visible from Libreville 8 times in the next 10 days. The brightest is on Wed 4 Nov at 19:09 (very bright, 76° up).

When	Brightness	Where to look
Tue 3 Nov 19:54–19:56	Fairly bright mag -1.5	Appears WSW, 10° up Highest 24° up in the W Disappears W, 24° up
Wed 4 Nov 19:06–19:11	Very bright mag -3.7	Appears SW, 10° up Highest 76° up in the NW Disappears NNE, 27° up
Fri 6 Nov 19:09–19:13	Faint mag -0.9	Appears W, 10° up Highest 14° up in the NW Disappears NNW, 10° up
Sat 7 Nov 05:08–05:12	Faint mag -0.9	Appears NNE, 10° up Highest 14° up in the NE Disappears E, 10° up
Mon 9 Nov 05:09–05:15	Very bright mag -3.6	Appears NNW, 16° up Highest 72° up in the NE Disappears SE, 10° up
Tue 10 Nov 04:24–04:27	Bright mag -2.0	Appears ENE, 28° up Highest 28° up in the ENE Disappears ESE, 10° up
Wed 11 Nov 05:12–05:15	Bright mag -2.1	Appears WSW, 18° up Highest 19° up in the SW Disappears S, 10° up
Thu 12 Nov 04:27–04:28	Fairly bright mag -1.7	Appears S, 23° up Highest 23° up in the S Disappears SSE, 10° up

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

Also for Libreville: 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.

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.