Satellites Tonight

Can I see Starlink tonight in Bendigo, Victoria?

No visible passes tonight.

None of the recently launched satellites passes over Bendigo in darkness in the next 7 nights.

Updated Times in local time (AEDT)-36.76°, 144.28°
Also tonight over Bendigo

The next 8 nights at a glance

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

Pass times, night by night

start · path · brightness

Tonight · Thursday 8 Oct

dark 7:59 pm – 6:21 am
No visible passes tonight.

Friday 9 Oct – Thursday 15 Oct

no visible passes

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.

Yes — best chance 9:35 pm, looking west-northwest. Visible from 9:35 pm to 9:37 pm, halfway up in the sky (29°) at its highest; about magnitude -1.5, as bright as the brightest stars. The space station is far brighter than Starlink satellites, so it is often the easier thing to spot.

Tiangong, China's space station

3 visible passes in 8 nights

Yes · 8:12 pm, look west-southwest. Tiangong orbits about 386 km up, tilted 41.5° to the equator. It looks like a bright, steady star gliding across the sky, fainter than the ISS but easy to see without a telescope.

NightAppearsLookHighestMag ≈
Thursday 8 Oct8:12 pmwest-southwest76° NNW-2
Friday 9 Oct8:50 pmwest23° NNW0
Sunday 11 Oct8:29 pmwest-northwest12° NW1

Local time. Brightness is a rough estimate (±1 magnitude; lower is brighter). How we compute this.

Seeing Starlink from Bendigo

Bendigo is at 36.8°S. Tonight the sky is dark enough from 7:59 pm until 6:21 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 none of the recently launched satellites passes over in darkness.

Satellites from launch 2026-225 (28 September 2026) are also low and bright, but they do not pass over Bendigo while it is dark and they are sunlit in this period.

No train is visible this week. A train is only a train for about the first 10 days after a launch; here is why some weeks have nothing.

Questions

Can I see Starlink tonight in Bendigo?

No visible passes tonight. None of the recently launched satellites passes over Bendigo in darkness in the next 7 nights.

When is the next Starlink train over Bendigo?

There is no train pass over Bendigo in the next 8 nights. Trains are only visible for about 10 days after a launch; the latest launch in our data is 2026-225 on 28 September 2026.

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