Tool walkthrough · 0:50 · silent, with on-screen words
A walkthrough of the ISS Pass Predictor from Georgetown, Guyana, recorded from the real tool with a dated orbit: the next pass worth going out for, the best one, and the list.
Shows the ISS Pass Predictor for Georgetown (6.80° N, 58.16° W) at 12:00 GYT on Tue 6 Oct 2026, with CelesTrak’s ISS orbit of epoch 6 Oct 2026, 00:20 UTC.
A silent walkthrough recorded from the real ISS Pass Predictor on this site, with the cursor and on-screen words showing each step.
Georgetown, with the clock frozen at Tue 6 Oct 2026, 12:00 GYT and the ISS orbit CelesTrak published with epoch 6 Oct 2026, 00:20 UTC (TLE line 1: 1 25544U 98067A 26279.01444283 .00005131 00000+0 10208-3 0 9995). The next pass worth going out for is Fri 9 Oct 04:54 GYT, peaking 29.4° up in the ESE, mag -0.2, 8 minutes long; the best upcoming is Sun 11 Oct 04:56 GYT at 39.5° in the NW. Of 25 crossings in the week, 12 are in daylight and 5 can be spotted.
0:00 The ISS Pass Predictor finds when the space station crosses your sky, and which crossings you can actually see.
0:04 It works from the station's orbit elements. This recording uses CelesTrak's set from 6 Oct 2026, 00:20 UTC, with the clock frozen at noon that day in Georgetown.
0:10 The next pass worth going out for is Fri 9 Oct 04:54 GYT: 29.4° up in the ESE at mag -0.2, 8 minutes from horizon to horizon.
0:18 The best this week is Sun 11 Oct 04:56 GYT, 39.5° up in the NW.
0:24 In the next 7 days the station crosses 25 times, but 12 crossings are in daylight and only 5 can be spotted. The first, Tue 6 Oct 17:12 GYT, is marked Daylight.
0:32 Tick Spottable only and the list keeps the passes you can see, starting with Tue 6 Oct 18:49 GYT, 7.2° up.
0:39 Show path & sky draws where to look: the pass climbs from the SSW to its peak in the ESE.
0:46 Orbits drift: the tool reloads the orbit each visit, so check again on the day.