Satellites Tonight

Can I see Starlink tonight in Alice Springs, Northern Territory?

No visible passes tonight.

Next good chance: Monday 12 Oct at 5:34 am, looking northwest.

Updated Times in local time (ACST)-23.70°, 133.88°
Next pass · Monday 12 Oct
Appears
5:34 am
northwest, 11°
Highest
5:41 am
32° north-northeast
Fades
5:41 am
east, 12°
NESW
≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 4 satellitesLaunch 2026-225 · 28 September 2026

The next 8 nights at a glance

11 visible passes
dark skytraineasy (mag ≤ 3.5)moderate (≤ 4)faint (≤ 5)

Pass times, night by night

start · path · brightness

Tonight · Wednesday 7 Oct

dark 6:59 pm – 5:45 am
No visible passes tonight.

Thursday 8 Oct – Saturday 10 Oct

no visible passes

Sunday 11 Oct

dark 7:01 pm – 5:41 am
5:18 amto 5:22 am · 5 min
NNW → E, highest 22° NNEappears north-northwest at 10°, low at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 1
5:34 amto 5:41 am · 7 min
NW → E, highest 32° NNEappears northwest at 11°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 4

Monday 12 Oct

dark 7:01 pm – 5:40 am
4:26 amto 4:46 am · 20 min
NE → ENE, highest 20° NNEappears northeast at 13°, low at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 20
4:50 amto 4:53 am · 4 min
NNE → E, highest 21° NNEappears north-northeast at 21°, low at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 2
5:11 amto 5:15 am · 4 min
NNW → E, highest 35° NNEappears north-northwest at 20°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 3.5 · easyTrain · 1
5:35 amto 5:40 am · 5 min
WNW → ESE, highest 61° Nappears west-northwest at 10°, high at the top
≈ mag 3 · easyTrain · 1

Tuesday 13 Oct

dark 7:02 pm – 5:39 am
4:41 amto 5:10 am · 29 min
NNE → E, highest 60° NNEappears north-northeast at 34°, high at the top
≈ mag 3 · easyTrain · 24
5:23 amto 5:28 am · 5 min
WNW → ESE, highest 79° Wappears west-northwest at 15°, almost overhead at the top
≈ mag 2.5 · brightTrain · 1

Wednesday 14 Oct

dark 7:02 pm – 5:38 am
4:39 amto 4:41 am · 2 min
ENE → ESE, highest 54° ENEappears east-northeast at 54°, high at the top
≈ mag 3 · easyTrain · 1
4:59 amto 5:33 am · 34 min
W → ESE, highest 78° SSWappears west at 53°, almost overhead at the top
≈ mag 2 · brightTrain · 24
5:36 amto 5:38 am · 2 min
W → WSW, highest 30° WSWappears west at 11°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 3.5 · easyTrain · 1

Magnitude is an estimate (lower = brighter; 3 is easy, 5 needs a dark sky). Predictions for satellites that are still raising their orbits can shift by a few minutes from one update to the next; check again before you go out. How we compute this.

Seeing Starlink from Alice Springs

Alice Springs is at 23.7°S. Tonight the sky is dark enough from 6:59 pm until 5:45 am. A Starlink satellite only shows when it is still in sunlight while you are in darkness, so the passes bunch up in the first hours after dusk and the last hours before dawn, not around midnight. Over the next 8 nights we found 11 visible passes (0 in the evening, 11 before dawn); 8 of them should be easy to spot (estimated magnitude 4 or brighter).

The best one is on Thursday 15 Oct at 4:59 am: it appears in the west, climbs to 78° in the south-southwest and fades in the east-southeast at about magnitude 2.

The passes come from these launches:

Satellites from launch 2026-219 (20 September 2026) are also low and bright, but they do not pass over Alice Springs while it is dark and they are sunlit in this period.

Questions

Can I see Starlink tonight in Alice Springs?

No visible passes tonight. Next good chance: Monday 12 Oct at 5:34 am, looking northwest.

When is the next Starlink train over Alice Springs?

Monday 12 Oct at 5:18 am: 1 satellites from launch 2026-225, appearing in the north-northwest and reaching 22°.

Which direction should I look for Starlink from Alice Springs?

This week most passes appear in the north-northwest or north-northeast. Each pass above lists where it appears, how high it climbs and where it fades.

Nearby cities

All of Northern Territory →
Palmerston 1284 kmDarwin 1290 kmAdelaide 1329 kmAdelaide Hills 1331 kmMildura 1416 kmTownsville 1424 km

Before you go out

How to spot StarlinkWhat the Starlink train isWhy some nights have nothing