What passes over Cape Town
Cape Town, South Africa
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The next visible ISS pass over Cape Town is on Sep 19, 2026: it appears at 4:07 AM in the SE, climbs to 11° above the horizon and disappears 0 minutes later at 4:07 AM in the SE, dropping below 10° above the horizon. At its brightest it is as bright as the brightest stars.
Every visible pass over Cape Town in the next 10 days
| Satellite | Appears | Highest | Disappears | Duration | Direction | Brightness |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ISS | 4:07 AM, 11° up | 4:07 AM | 0 min | SE → SE | Moderate | |
| Hubble | 4:36 AM, 22° up | 4:37 AM | 1 min | NE → ENE | Faint | |
| Tiangong | 4:52 AM, 41° up | 4:55 AM | 2 min | E → ENE | Moderate | |
| ISS | 5:41 AM, 12° up | 5:42 AM | 2 min | SW → S | Bright | |
| Hubble | 6:14 AM, 33° up | 6:15 AM | 5 min | WNW → NNE | Faint | |
| BlueWalker 3 | 7:42 PM, 65° up | 7:45 PM | 4 min | WSW → NNE | Faint | |
| ISS | 4:54 AM, 15° up | 4:56 AM | 1 min | S → SSE | Moderate | |
| Tiangong | 5:29 AM, 29° up | 5:32 AM | 3 min | NW → NNE | Moderate | |
| Hubble | 5:41 AM, 33° up | 5:43 AM | 5 min | WNW → NE | Faint | |
| BlueWalker 3 | 7:06 PM, 33° up | 7:08 PM | 2 min | NE → NE | Faint | |
| Hubble | 5:08 AM, 33° up | 5:11 AM | 3 min | N → ENE | Faint | |
| Hubble | 4:37 AM, 22° up | 4:38 AM | 2 min | NE → ENE | Faint | |
| SMAP | 7:09 PM, 87° up | 7:10 PM | 3 min | S → NNW | Faint | |
| Hubble | 5:42 AM, 19° up | 5:44 AM | 4 min | NW → NNE | Faint | |
| Hubble | 5:09 AM, 19° up | 5:12 AM | 2 min | N → NNE | Faint | |
| Tiangong | 7:43 PM, 20° up | 7:43 PM | 3 min | NNW → NE | Moderate | |
| Hubble | 4:38 AM, 11° up | 4:39 AM | 0 min | NNE → NNE | Faint | |
| SMAP | 7:21 PM, 64° up | 7:21 PM | 2 min | SSW → WNW | Faint | |
| Tiangong | 8:20 PM, 56° up | 8:20 PM | 3 min | WNW → NW | Bright | |
| Tiangong | 7:22 PM, 39° up | 7:25 PM | 6 min | NW → ESE | Bright | |
| Tiangong | 8:57 PM, 19° up | 8:57 PM | 1 min | W → WSW | Faint | |
| Tiangong | 8:00 PM, 56° up | 8:01 PM | 5 min | WNW → SE | Bright | |
| Tiangong | 8:38 PM, 26° up | 8:38 PM | 3 min | WSW → SSW | Moderate |
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Times are in South Africa Standard Time (Africa/Johannesburg).
Every row is a visible pass, and its times are the ends of the visible window: while that window lasts, the Sun is at least 6° below the horizon (nautical twilight or darker), the satellite is in sunlight, it is at least 10° above the horizon, and it is magnitude 4 or brighter.
How bright a pass gets is predicted from the satellite’s standard magnitude, how far away it is and how much of its sunlit side faces you. It ignores flashes off flat surfaces and the haze that dims anything low in the sky.
Times are computed for the city centre and may differ by a few seconds elsewhere in Cape Town.
Pass times computed on Sep 18, 2026, 11:00 PM from Space-Track orbital elements, then 20 hours old.
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