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Can I see Starlink tonight in Port Macquarie, New South Wales?

No visible passes tonight.

Next good chance: Thursday 15 Oct at 5:36 am, looking northwest.

Updated Times in local time (AEDT)-31.43°, 152.91°
Next pass · Thursday 15 Oct
Appears
5:36 am
northwest, 10°
Highest
5:38 am
27° north-northeast
Fades
5:40 am
east-northeast, 11°
NESW
≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 1 satellitesLaunch 2026-225 · 28 September 2026

The next 8 nights at a glance

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

Pass times, night by night

start · path · brightness

Tonight · Wednesday 7 Oct

dark 7:19 pm – 5:53 am
No visible passes tonight.

Thursday 8 Oct – Tuesday 13 Oct

no visible passes

Wednesday 14 Oct

dark 7:24 pm – 5:44 am
4:59 amto 5:31 am · 32 min
N → ENE, highest 24° NNEappears north at 15°, low at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 24
5:36 amto 5:40 am · 5 min
NW → ENE, highest 27° NNEappears northwest at 10°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 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 Port Macquarie

Port Macquarie is at 31.4°S. Tonight the sky is dark enough from 7:19 pm until 5:53 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 2 visible passes (0 in the evening, 2 before dawn); 1 of them should be easy to spot (estimated magnitude 4 or brighter).

The best one is on Thursday 15 Oct at 5:36 am: it appears in the northwest, climbs to 27° 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 Port Macquarie while it is dark and they are sunlit in this period.

Questions

Can I see Starlink tonight in Port Macquarie?

No visible passes tonight. Next good chance: Thursday 15 Oct at 5:36 am, looking northwest.

When is the next Starlink train over Port Macquarie?

Thursday 15 Oct at 4:59 am: 24 satellites from launch 2026-225, appearing in the north and reaching 24°.

Which direction should I look for Starlink from Port Macquarie?

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 New South Wales →
Coffs Harbour 128 kmTamworth 192 kmMaitland 193 kmNewcastle 198 kmCessnock 214 kmCentral Coast 265 km

Before you go out

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