Satellites Tonight

Can I see Starlink tonight in Darwin, Northern Territory?

No visible passes tonight.

Next good chance: Friday 9 Oct at 5:58 am, looking north-northwest.

Updated Times in local time (ACST)-12.46°, 130.84°
Next pass · Friday 9 Oct
Appears
5:58 am
north-northwest, 11°
Highest
6:01 am
30° north-northeast
Fades
6:03 am
east, 11°
NESW
≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 3 satellitesLaunch 2026-225 · 28 September 2026

The next 8 nights at a glance

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

Pass times, night by night

start · path · brightness

Tonight · Wednesday 7 Oct

dark 7:05 pm – 6:04 am
No visible passes tonight.

Thursday 8 Oct

dark 7:05 pm – 6:03 am
5:58 amto 6:03 am · 5 min
NNW → E, highest 30° NNEappears north-northwest at 11°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 3

Friday 9 Oct

dark 7:05 pm – 6:03 am
4:59 amto 5:26 am · 27 min
NE → ENE, highest 26° NNEappears northeast at 15°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 22

Saturday 10 Oct

dark 7:05 pm – 6:02 am
5:02 amto 5:04 am · 2 min
ENE → E, highest 33° ENEappears east-northeast at 33°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 1
5:16 amto 5:41 am · 25 min
NNE → ESE, highest 87° Nappears north-northeast at 55°, almost overhead at the top
≈ mag 2.5 · brightTrain · 22

Sunday 11 Oct

dark 7:05 pm – 6:02 am
5:00 amto 5:01 am · 2 min
ESE → ESE, highest 29° ESEappears east-southeast at 29°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 1
5:18 amto 5:21 am · 3 min
SW → SE, highest 51° SWappears southwest at 51°, high at the top
≈ mag 3 · easyTrain · 1
5:33 amto 5:59 am · 26 min
WSW → SE, highest 35° SSWappears west-southwest at 25°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 3.5 · easyTrain · 22

Monday 12 Oct

dark 7:05 pm – 6:01 am
5:11 amto 5:13 am · 2 min
S → SSE, highest 24° Sappears south at 24°, low at the top
≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 1
5:35 amto 5:38 am · 3 min
SW → SSE, highest 18° SSWappears southwest at 16°, low at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 1

Tuesday 13 Oct

dark 7:05 pm – 6:00 am
4:41 amto 5:07 am · 27 min
SSE → SE, highest 18° Sappears south-southeast at 13°, low at the top
≈ mag 5 · faintTrain · 22

Wednesday 14 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.

Seeing Starlink from Darwin

Darwin is at 12.5°S. Tonight the sky is dark enough from 7:05 pm until 6:04 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 10 visible passes (0 in the evening, 10 before dawn); 7 of them should be easy to spot (estimated magnitude 4 or brighter).

The best one is on Sunday 11 Oct at 5:16 am: it appears in the north-northeast, climbs to 87° in the north and fades in the east-southeast at about magnitude 2.5.

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 Darwin while it is dark and they are sunlit in this period.

Questions

Can I see Starlink tonight in Darwin?

No visible passes tonight. Next good chance: Friday 9 Oct at 5:58 am, looking north-northwest.

When is the next Starlink train over Darwin?

Friday 9 Oct at 5:58 am: 3 satellites from launch 2026-225, appearing in the north-northwest and reaching 30°.

Which direction should I look for Starlink from Darwin?

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

Nearby cities

All of Northern Territory →
Palmerston 16 kmAlice Springs 1290 kmCairns 1679 kmTownsville 1866 kmMackay 2174 kmKalgoorlie 2249 km

Before you go out

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