Can I see Starlink tonight in Hervey Bay, Queensland?

No visible passes tonight.

Next good chance: Tuesday 13 Oct at 4:37 am, looking northwest.

Updated 7 Oct 2026, 21:35 UTCTimes in local time (AEST)-25.29°, 152.77°

Also tonight over Hervey Bay

Space station (ISS)Yes · 6:57 pm, look northwestup to 58°, ≈ mag -3 · 3 passes tonight Tiangong (China's station)Yes · 7:15 pm, look south-southwestup to 25°, ≈ mag -0.5

Next pass · Tuesday 13 Oct

Appears

4:37 am

northwest, 12°

Highest

4:39 am

32° north-northeast

Fades

4:41 am

east, 11°

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

The next 8 nights at a glance

11 visible passes

4 pm6 pm8 pm10 pmmidnight2 am4 am6 am8 am

Tonight

Fri 9 Oct

Sat 10 Oct

Sun 11 Oct

Mon 12 Oct

Tue 13 Oct

Wed 14 Oct

Thu 15 Oct

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

Pass times, night by night

start · path · brightness

Tonight · Thursday 8 Oct

dark 6:15 pm – 4:57 am

No visible passes tonight.

Friday 9 Oct – Saturday 10 Oct

no visible passes

Sunday 11 Oct

dark 6:17 pm – 4:54 am

4:34 amto 4:54 am · 19 min

N → ENE, highest 22° NNEappears north at 11°, low at the top

≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 22

Monday 12 Oct

dark 6:17 pm – 4:53 am

4:23 amto 4:27 am · 4 min

NNW → E, highest 24° NNEappears north-northwest at 16°, low at the top

≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 1

4:37 amto 4:41 am · 5 min

NW → E, highest 32° NNEappears northwest at 12°, halfway up at the top

≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 1

4:52 amto 4:53 am · 2 min

NW → NNW, highest 28° NNWappears northwest at 12°, halfway up at the top

≈ mag 3.5 · easyTrain · 3

Tuesday 13 Oct

dark 6:18 pm – 4:52 am

3:33 amto 4:02 am · 30 min

ENE → ENE, highest 27° NNEappears east-northeast at 12°, halfway up at the top

≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 24

4:40 amto 4:45 am · 5 min

WNW → ESE, highest 64° Nappears west-northwest at 13°, high at the top

≈ mag 2.5 · brightTrain · 1

Wednesday 14 Oct

dark 6:18 pm – 4:51 am

3:41 amto 3:58 am · 17 min

ENE → E, highest 46° NNEappears east-northeast at 27°, halfway up at the top

≈ mag 3 · easyTrain · 11

4:01 amto 4:26 am · 25 min

N → E, highest 77° Nappears north at 51°, almost overhead at the top

≈ mag 2.5 · brightTrain · 14

Thursday 15 Oct

dark 6:19 pm – 4:50 am

3:42 amto 3:44 am · 2 min

E → ESE, highest 35° Eappears east at 35°, halfway up at the top

≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 1

3:56 amto 4:15 am · 19 min

E → ESE, highest 88° SEappears east at 74°, almost overhead at the top

≈ mag 2.5 · brightTrain · 13

4:19 amto 4:48 am · 29 min

W → ESE, highest 64° SSWappears west at 31°, high at the top

≈ mag 2.5 · brightTrain · 12

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.

The ISS tonight

ISS pass times for Hervey Bay →

Yes — best chance 6:57 pm, looking northwest. Visible from 6:57 pm to 7:04 pm, high in the sky (58°) at its highest; about magnitude -3, brighter than any star. The space station is far brighter than Starlink satellites, so it is often the easier thing to spot.

Tiangong, China's space station

7 visible passes in 8 nights

Yes · 7:15 pm, look south-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.

Night	Appears	Look	Highest	Mag ≈
Thursday 8 Oct	7:15 pm	south-southwest	25° SSE	-0.5
Friday 9 Oct	6:17 pm	south-southwest	16° SSE	0
Friday 9 Oct	7:53 pm	west-southwest	17° WSW	2
Saturday 10 Oct	6:53 pm	southwest	57° SSE	-2
Sunday 11 Oct	7:32 pm	west	23° NW	0.5
Monday 12 Oct	6:32 pm	west-southwest	55° NNW	-1.5
Tuesday 13 Oct	7:12 pm	northwest	10° NW	1.5

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

Seeing Starlink from Hervey Bay

Hervey Bay is at 25.3°S. Tonight the sky is dark enough from 6:15 pm until 4:57 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); 9 of them should be easy to spot (estimated magnitude 4 or brighter).

The best one is on Friday 16 Oct at 3:56 am: it appears in the east, climbs to 88° in the southeast 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): 11 passes here

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

Questions

Can I see Starlink tonight in Hervey Bay?

No visible passes tonight. Next good chance: Tuesday 13 Oct at 4:37 am, looking northwest.

When is the next Starlink train over Hervey Bay?

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

Which direction should I look for Starlink from Hervey Bay?

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

Nearby cities

All of Queensland →

Maryborough 29 km Bundaberg 63 km Sunshine Coast 155 km Caloundra 172 km Gladstone 221 km Brisbane 244 km

Before you go out

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