Can I see Starlink tonight in Gladstone, Queensland?

No visible passes tonight.

Next good chance: Tuesday 13 Oct at 4:23 am, looking north-northwest.

Updated 7 Oct 2026, 19:18 UTCTimes in local time (AEST)-23.85°, 151.26°

Next pass · Tuesday 13 Oct

Appears

4:23 am

north-northwest, 21°

Highest

4:24 am

28° north-northeast

Fades

4:27 am

east, 12°

≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 1 satellitesLaunch 2026-225 · 28 September 2026

The next 8 nights at a glance

10 visible passes

4 pm6 pm8 pm10 pmmidnight2 am4 am6 am8 am

Tonight

Thu 8 Oct

Fri 9 Oct

Sat 10 Oct

Sun 11 Oct

Mon 12 Oct

Tue 13 Oct

Wed 14 Oct

dark skytraineasy (mag ≤ 3.5)moderate (≤ 4)faint (≤ 5)

Pass times, night by night

start · path · brightness

Tonight · Wednesday 7 Oct

dark 6:20 pm – 5:06 am

No visible passes tonight.

Thursday 8 Oct – Saturday 10 Oct

no visible passes

Sunday 11 Oct

dark 6:21 pm – 5:02 am

4:34 amto 4:53 am · 20 min

NNW → ENE, highest 25° NNEappears north-northwest at 12°, halfway up at the top

≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 22

Monday 12 Oct

dark 6:22 pm – 5:01 am

4:23 amto 4:27 am · 4 min

NNW → E, highest 28° NNEappears north-northwest at 21°, halfway up at the top

≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 1

4:37 amto 4:41 am · 4 min

NW → E, highest 37° NNEappears northwest at 18°, halfway up at the top

≈ mag 3.5 · easyTrain · 1

4:51 amto 5:01 am · 9 min

NW → E, highest 58° NNEappears northwest at 11°, high at the top

≈ mag 3 · easyTrain · 14

Tuesday 13 Oct

dark 6:22 pm – 5:00 am

3:40 amto 4:02 am · 22 min

ENE → E, highest 30° NEappears east-northeast at 14°, halfway up at the top

≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 17

4:40 amto 4:44 am · 5 min

WNW → ESE, highest 80° NNEappears west-northwest at 18°, almost overhead at the top

≈ mag 2.5 · brightTrain · 1

4:55 amto 5:00 am · 5 min

WNW → ESE, highest 75° SSEappears west-northwest at 10°, almost overhead at the top

≈ mag 3 · easyTrain · 1

Wednesday 14 Oct

dark 6:23 pm – 4:59 am

3:41 amto 3:57 am · 17 min

E → E, highest 46° ENEappears east at 23°, halfway up at the top

≈ mag 3.5 · easyTrain · 11

4:01 amto 4:25 am · 24 min

ENE → ESE, highest 87° NNWappears east-northeast at 59°, almost overhead at the top

≈ mag 2.5 · brightTrain · 14

4:57 amto 4:59 am · 2 min

W → WSW, highest 32° WSWappears west at 12°, 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 Gladstone

Gladstone is at 23.8°S. Tonight the sky is dark enough from 6:20 pm until 5:06 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); 9 of them should be easy to spot (estimated magnitude 4 or brighter).

The best one is on Thursday 15 Oct at 4:01 am: it appears in the east-northeast, climbs to 87° in the north-northwest and fades in the east-southeast at about magnitude 2.5.

The passes come from these launches:

2026-225, launched 28 September 2026 (train, 26 satellites, now 296–316 km up): 10 passes here

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

Questions

Can I see Starlink tonight in Gladstone?

No visible passes tonight. Next good chance: Tuesday 13 Oct at 4:23 am, looking north-northwest.

When is the next Starlink train over Gladstone?

Monday 12 Oct at 4:34 am: 22 satellites from launch 2026-225, appearing in the north-northwest and reaching 25°.

Which direction should I look for Starlink from Gladstone?

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

Nearby cities

All of Queensland →

Rockhampton 93 km Bundaberg 158 km Hervey Bay 221 km Maryborough 238 km Sunshine Coast 362 km Mackay 369 km

Also tonight: the ISS

ISS pass times for Gladstone →

No visible pass of the International Space Station tonight. Next chance: Thursday 8 Oct at 6:57 pm, looking northwest. The space station is far brighter than Starlink satellites, so it is often the easier thing to spot.

Before you go out

ISS tonight in Gladstone How to spot Starlink What the Starlink train is Why some nights have nothing