Satellites Tonight

Can I see Starlink tonight in Kalgoorlie, Western Australia?

No visible passes tonight.

Next good chance: Thursday 15 Oct at 4:28 am, looking northwest.

Updated Times in local time (AWST)-30.75°, 121.47°
Also tonight over Kalgoorlie
Next pass · Thursday 15 Oct
Appears
4:28 am
northwest, 14°
Highest
4:29 am
27° north-northeast
Fades
4:32 am
east, 10°
NESW
≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 1 satellitesLaunch 2026-225 · 28 September 2026

The next 8 nights at a glance

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

Pass times, night by night

start · path · brightness

Tonight · Wednesday 7 Oct

dark 6:24 pm – 4:59 am
No visible passes tonight.

Thursday 8 Oct – Monday 12 Oct

no visible passes

Tuesday 13 Oct

dark 6:28 pm – 4:52 am
4:26 amto 4:30 am · 4 min
NNW → ENE, highest 17° NNEappears north-northwest at 11°, low at the top
≈ mag 5 · faintTrain · 1
4:34 amto 4:52 am · 17 min
NNW → ENE, highest 23° NNEappears north-northwest at 11°, low at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 14

Wednesday 14 Oct

dark 6:29 pm – 4:51 am
3:35 amto 3:54 am · 19 min
NE → NE, highest 16° NNEappears northeast at 11°, low at the top
≈ mag 5 · faintTrain · 10
4:28 amto 4:32 am · 4 min
NW → E, highest 27° NNEappears northwest at 14°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 1
4:43 amto 4:51 am · 8 min
NW → E, highest 34° NNEappears northwest at 11°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 3.5 · easyTrain · 7

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.

No visible pass of the International Space Station tonight. Next chance: Thursday 8 Oct at 6:31 pm, looking north. The space station is far brighter than Starlink satellites, so it is often the easier thing to spot.

Tiangong, China's space station

5 visible passes in 8 nights

No visible pass of Tiangong over Kalgoorlie tonight. Next: Thursday 8 Oct at 6:45 pm. It orbits about 386 km up, tilted 41.5° to the equator, and looks like a bright, steady star gliding across the sky.

NightAppearsLookHighestMag ≈
Thursday 8 Oct6:45 pmsouthwest36° SSE-1.5
Friday 9 Oct7:22 pmwest-southwest55° NW-1.5
Saturday 10 Oct6:25 pmsouthwest71° SE-2.5
Sunday 11 Oct7:01 pmwest25° NW0
Tuesday 13 Oct6:41 pmwest-northwest12° NW1.5

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

Seeing Starlink from Kalgoorlie

Kalgoorlie is at 30.7°S. Tonight the sky is dark enough from 6:24 pm until 4:59 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 5 visible passes (0 in the evening, 5 before dawn); 2 of them should be easy to spot (estimated magnitude 4 or brighter).

The best one is on Thursday 15 Oct at 4:43 am: it appears in the northwest, climbs to 34° in the north-northeast and fades in the east at about magnitude 3.5.

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

Questions

Can I see Starlink tonight in Kalgoorlie?

No visible passes tonight. Next good chance: Thursday 15 Oct at 4:28 am, looking northwest.

When is the next Starlink train over Kalgoorlie?

Wednesday 14 Oct at 4:26 am: 1 satellites from launch 2026-225, appearing in the north-northwest and reaching 17°.

Which direction should I look for Starlink from Kalgoorlie?

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.

Before you go out