Can I see Starlink tonight in Rockhampton, Queensland?

No visible passes tonight.

Next good chance: Tuesday 13 Oct at 4:23 am, looking north.

Updated 7 Oct 2026, 18:36 UTCTimes in local time (AEST)-23.38°, 150.51°

Next pass · Tuesday 13 Oct

Appears

4:23 am

north, 24°

Highest

4:24 am

28° northeast

Fades

4:27 am

east, 10°

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

The next 8 nights at a glance

10 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 6:22 pm – 5:09 am

No visible passes tonight.

Thursday 8 Oct – Saturday 10 Oct

no visible passes

Sunday 11 Oct

dark 6:24 pm – 5:05 am

4:34 amto 4:53 am · 19 min

NNW → ENE, highest 25° NNEappears north-northwest at 11°, halfway up at the top

≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 22

Monday 12 Oct

dark 6:25 pm – 5:04 am

4:23 amto 4:27 am · 3 min

N → E, highest 28° NEappears north at 24°, halfway up at the top

≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 1

4:37 amto 4:41 am · 4 min

NNW → E, highest 38° NNEappears north-northwest at 20°, halfway up at the top

≈ mag 3.5 · easyTrain · 1

4:51 amto 5:04 am · 13 min

NW → E, highest 64° Nappears northwest at 13°, high at the top

≈ mag 2.5 · brightTrain · 16

Tuesday 13 Oct

dark 6:25 pm – 5:03 am

3:40 amto 4:02 am · 22 min

ENE → ENE, highest 30° NEappears east-northeast at 13°, halfway up at the top

≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 17

4:40 amto 4:44 am · 5 min

WNW → ESE, highest 80° NNWappears west-northwest at 21°, almost overhead at the top

≈ mag 2.5 · brightTrain · 1

4:55 amto 5:00 am · 6 min

WNW → ESE, highest 74° SSWappears west-northwest at 12°, high at the top

≈ mag 2.5 · brightTrain · 1

Wednesday 14 Oct

dark 6:25 pm – 5:02 am

3:41 amto 3:57 am · 16 min

E → E, highest 40° Eappears east at 21°, halfway up at the top

≈ mag 3.5 · easyTrain · 11

4:01 amto 4:25 am · 24 min

E → ESE, highest 85° NNEappears east at 53°, almost overhead at the top

≈ mag 2.5 · brightTrain · 14

4:57 amto 5:02 am · 5 min

W → SE, highest 41° SSWappears west at 11°, halfway up at the top

≈ mag 3.5 · easyTrain · 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 Rockhampton

Rockhampton is at 23.4°S. Tonight the sky is dark enough from 6:22 pm until 5:09 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 10 visible passes (0 in the evening, 10 before dawn); 9 of them should be easy to spot (estimated magnitude 4 or brighter).

The best one is on Thursday 15 Oct at 4:01 am: it appears in the east, climbs to 85° in the north-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): 10 passes here

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

Questions

Can I see Starlink tonight in Rockhampton?

No visible passes tonight. Next good chance: Tuesday 13 Oct at 4:23 am, looking north.

When is the next Starlink train over Rockhampton?

Monday 12 Oct at 4:34 am: 22 satellites from launch 2026-225, appearing in the north-northwest and reaching 25°.

Which direction should I look for Starlink from Rockhampton?

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

Nearby cities

All of Queensland →

Gladstone 93 km Bundaberg 249 km Mackay 283 km Hervey Bay 312 km Maryborough 327 km Sunshine Coast 447 km

Also tonight: the ISS

ISS pass times for Rockhampton →

No visible pass of the International Space Station tonight. Next chance: Thursday 8 Oct at 6:57 pm, looking northwest. 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 Rockhampton How to spot Starlink What the Starlink train is Why some nights have nothing