See the ISS from Sofia, Bulgaria

The International Space Station is visible from Sofia 6 times in the next 10 days. The brightest is on Thu 12 Nov at 18:49 (very bright, 64° up).

When	Brightness	Where to look
Tue 3 Nov 06:00–06:03	Fairly bright mag -1.9	Appears WSW, 15° up Highest 17° up in the SW Disappears S, 10° up
Wed 4 Nov 05:15–05:16	Fairly bright mag -1.7	Appears S, 20° up Highest 20° up in the S Disappears SSE, 10° up
Tue 10 Nov 18:45–18:47	Fairly bright mag -1.9	Appears S, 10° up Highest 20° up in the SSE Disappears SSE, 20° up
Wed 11 Nov 17:59–18:01	Fairly bright mag -1.7	Appears SSE, 10° up Highest 14° up in the SE Disappears ESE, 12° up
Wed 11 Nov 19:33–19:34	Fairly bright mag -1.3	Appears WSW, 10° up Highest 20° up in the WSW Disappears WSW, 20° up
Thu 12 Nov 18:46–18:49	Very bright mag -3.8	Appears SW, 10° up Highest 64° up in the SE Disappears SE, 63° up

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

Also for Sofia: 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.