Can I see Starlink tonight in Palmerston, Northern Territory?

No visible passes tonight.

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

Updated 7 Oct 2026, 18:36 UTCTimes in local time (ACST)-12.49°, 130.98°

Next pass · Friday 9 Oct

Appears

5:58 am

north-northwest, 12°

Highest

6:01 am

31° northeast

Fades

6:03 am

east, 13°

≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 2 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

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 7:04 pm – 6:03 am

No visible passes tonight.

Thursday 8 Oct

dark 7:04 pm – 6:03 am

5:58 amto 6:03 am · 4 min

NNW → E, highest 31° NEappears north-northwest at 12°, halfway up at the top

≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 2

Friday 9 Oct

dark 7:04 pm – 6:02 am

5:00 amto 5:24 am · 24 min

NE → ENE, highest 26° NNEappears northeast at 16°, halfway up at the top

≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 22

Saturday 10 Oct

dark 7:04 pm – 6:02 am

4:54 amto 4:56 am · 2 min

ENE → E, highest 23° ENEappears east-northeast at 23°, low at the top

≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 1

5:03 amto 5:05 am · 2 min

ENE → ESE, highest 33° ENEappears east-northeast at 33°, halfway up at the top

≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 1

5:17 amto 5:38 am · 21 min

N → ESE, highest 85° ENEappears north at 55°, almost overhead at the top

≈ mag 2.5 · brightTrain · 22

Sunday 11 Oct

dark 7:04 pm – 6:01 am

5:09 amto 5:11 am · 2 min

SSE → SE, highest 54° SSEappears south-southeast at 54°, high at the top

≈ mag 3 · easyTrain · 1

5:20 amto 5:23 am · 3 min

SW → SE, highest 49° SWappears southwest at 49°, halfway up at the top

≈ mag 3 · easyTrain · 1

5:35 amto 5:54 am · 19 min

WSW → SE, highest 34° SWappears west-southwest at 23°, halfway up at the top

≈ mag 3.5 · easyTrain · 22

Monday 12 Oct

dark 7:05 pm – 6:00 am

5:24 amto 5:27 am · 3 min

SW → SSE, highest 21° SSWappears southwest at 21°, low at the top

≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 1

5:38 amto 5:41 am · 3 min

SW → SSE, highest 17° SSWappears southwest at 14°, low at the top

≈ mag 5 · faintTrain · 1

Tuesday 13 Oct

dark 7:05 pm – 6:00 am

4:44 amto 5:02 am · 19 min

SSE → SE, highest 18° Sappears south-southeast at 13°, low at the top

≈ mag 5 · faintTrain · 13

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 Palmerston

Palmerston is at 12.5°S. Tonight the sky is dark enough from 7:04 pm until 6:03 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); 7 of them should be easy to spot (estimated magnitude 4 or brighter).

The best one is on Sunday 11 Oct at 5:17 am: it appears in the north, climbs to 85° in the east-northeast 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 Palmerston while it is dark and they are sunlit in this period.

Questions

Can I see Starlink tonight in Palmerston?

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

When is the next Starlink train over Palmerston?

Friday 9 Oct at 5:58 am: 2 satellites from launch 2026-225, appearing in the north-northwest and reaching 31°.

Which direction should I look for Starlink from Palmerston?

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

Nearby cities

All of Northern Territory →

Darwin 16 km Alice Springs 1284 km Cairns 1664 km Townsville 1851 km Mackay 2159 km Kalgoorlie 2253 km

Also tonight: the ISS

ISS pass times for Palmerston →

Yes — best chance 5:04 am, looking south. Visible from 5:04 am to 5:09 am, low in the sky (20°) at its highest; about magnitude 0, as bright as the brightest stars. 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 Palmerston How to spot Starlink What the Starlink train is Why some nights have nothing