Satellites Tonight

Can I see Starlink tonight in Kwinana, Western Australia?

No visible passes tonight.

Next good chance: Thursday 15 Oct at 5:00 am, looking north-northwest.

Updated Times in local time (AWST)-32.23°, 115.78°
Next pass · Thursday 15 Oct
Appears
5:00 am
north-northwest, 12°
Highest
5:11 am
25° north-northeast
Fades
5:12 am
east-northeast, 11°
NESW
≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 13 satellitesLaunch 2026-225 · 28 September 2026

The next 8 nights at a glance

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

Pass times, night by night

start · path · brightness

Tonight · Wednesday 7 Oct

dark 6:48 pm – 5:21 am
No visible passes tonight.

Thursday 8 Oct – Monday 12 Oct

no visible passes

Tuesday 13 Oct

dark 6:53 pm – 5:13 am
4:42 amto 5:12 am · 30 min
N → NE, highest 17° NNEappears north at 10°, low at the top
≈ mag 5 · faintTrain · 24

Wednesday 14 Oct

dark 6:53 pm – 5:12 am
4:40 amto 4:43 am · 4 min
NNW → ENE, highest 18° NNEappears north-northwest at 13°, low at the top
≈ mag 5 · faintTrain · 1
5:00 amto 5:12 am · 12 min
NNW → ENE, highest 25° NNEappears north-northwest at 12°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 13

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 Kwinana

Kwinana is at 32.2°S. Tonight the sky is dark enough from 6:48 pm until 5:21 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 we found 3 visible passes (0 in the evening, 3 before dawn); 1 of them should be easy to spot (estimated magnitude 4 or brighter).

The best one is on Thursday 15 Oct at 5:00 am: it appears in the north-northwest, climbs to 25° in the north-northeast and fades in the east-northeast at about magnitude 4.

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

Questions

Can I see Starlink tonight in Kwinana?

No visible passes tonight. Next good chance: Thursday 15 Oct at 5:00 am, looking north-northwest.

When is the next Starlink train over Kwinana?

Wednesday 14 Oct at 4:42 am: 24 satellites from launch 2026-225, appearing in the north and reaching 17°.

Which direction should I look for Starlink from Kwinana?

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

Nearby cities

All of Western Australia →
Perth 32 kmMandurah 33 kmBunbury 123 kmBusselton 163 kmAlbany 367 kmGeraldton 400 km

Before you go out

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