Can I see Starlink tonight in Townsville, Queensland?

No visible passes tonight.

Next good chance: Sunday 11 Oct at 5:10 am, looking north-northwest.

Updated 7 Oct 2026, 20:17 UTCTimes in local time (AEST)-19.27°, 146.81°

Also tonight over Townsville

Space station (ISS)Not tonightNext: Thursday 8 Oct at 6:55 pm Tiangong (China's station)Not tonightNext: Friday 9 Oct at 7:53 pm

Next pass · Sunday 11 Oct

Appears

5:10 am

north-northwest, 11°

Highest

5:13 am

29° north-northeast

Fades

5:15 am

east, 11°

≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 2 satellitesLaunch 2026-225 · 28 September 2026

The next 8 nights at a glance

14 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 6:35 pm – 5:26 am

No visible passes tonight.

Thursday 8 Oct

no visible passes

Friday 9 Oct

dark 6:35 pm – 5:25 am

5:20 amto 5:24 am · 4 min

NNW → ENE, highest 18° NNEappears north-northwest at 11°, low at the top

≈ mag 5 · faintTrain · 1

Saturday 10 Oct

dark 6:35 pm – 5:24 am

5:10 amto 5:15 am · 5 min

NNW → E, highest 29° NNEappears north-northwest at 11°, halfway up at the top

≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 2

Sunday 11 Oct

dark 6:36 pm – 5:23 am

4:19 amto 4:20 am · 2 min

NE → ENE, highest 19° NEappears northeast at 19°, low at the top

≈ mag 5 · faintTrain · 1

4:34 amto 4:52 am · 18 min

N → E, highest 38° NNEappears north at 25°, halfway up at the top

≈ mag 3.5 · easyTrain · 22

5:17 amto 5:22 am · 5 min

WNW → ESE, highest 86° NNEappears west-northwest at 12°, almost overhead at the top

≈ mag 2.5 · brightTrain · 2

Monday 12 Oct

dark 6:36 pm – 5:22 am

4:23 amto 4:25 am · 2 min

ENE → E, highest 39° ENEappears east-northeast at 39°, halfway up at the top

≈ mag 3.5 · easyTrain · 1

4:37 amto 4:40 am · 3 min

N → ESE, highest 63° NEappears north at 60°, high at the top

≈ mag 3 · easyTrain · 1

4:51 amto 5:14 am · 23 min

WNW → ESE, highest 86° SSEappears west-northwest at 36°, almost overhead at the top

≈ mag 2.5 · brightTrain · 22

Tuesday 13 Oct

dark 6:36 pm – 5:21 am

4:40 amto 4:43 am · 3 min

WSW → SE, highest 53° SWappears west-southwest at 45°, high at the top

≈ mag 3 · easyTrain · 1

4:55 amto 4:59 am · 4 min

WSW → SE, highest 39° SSWappears west-southwest at 23°, halfway up at the top

≈ mag 3.5 · easyTrain · 1

5:04 amto 5:21 am · 18 min

WSW → SE, highest 32° SSWappears west-southwest at 17°, halfway up at the top

≈ mag 3.5 · easyTrain · 14

Wednesday 14 Oct

dark 6:37 pm – 5:21 am

4:01 amto 4:23 am · 23 min

SE → ESE, highest 38° SSEappears southeast at 21°, halfway up at the top

≈ mag 3.5 · easyTrain · 14

4:57 amto 5:00 am · 4 min

WSW → SE, highest 23° SSWappears west-southwest at 16°, low at the top

≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 1

5:12 amto 5:21 am · 8 min

WSW → SSE, highest 19° SSWappears west-southwest at 11°, low at the top

≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 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.

The ISS tonight

ISS pass times for Townsville →

No visible pass of the International Space Station tonight. Next chance: Thursday 8 Oct at 6:55 pm, looking northwest. The space station is far brighter than Starlink satellites, so it is often the easier thing to spot.

Tiangong, China's space station

6 visible passes in 8 nights

No visible pass of Tiangong over Townsville tonight. Next: Friday 9 Oct at 7:53 pm. It orbits about 386 km up, tilted 41.5° to the equator, and looks like a bright, steady star gliding across the sky.

Night	Appears	Look	Highest	Mag ≈
Friday 9 Oct	7:53 pm	south-southwest	14° SSW	1
Saturday 10 Oct	6:55 pm	south	14° SSE	0
Sunday 11 Oct	7:31 pm	southwest	62° S	-2
Monday 12 Oct	6:35 pm	southeast	27° SE	-1.5
Monday 12 Oct	8:09 pm	west	14° WNW	2
Tuesday 13 Oct	7:09 pm	west-southwest	42° NW	-1

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

Seeing Starlink from Townsville

Townsville is at 19.3°S. Tonight the sky is dark enough from 6:35 pm until 5:26 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 14 visible passes (0 in the evening, 14 before dawn); 10 of them should be easy to spot (estimated magnitude 4 or brighter).

The best one is on Monday 12 Oct at 5:17 am: it appears in the west-northwest, climbs to 86° 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): 14 passes here

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

Questions

Can I see Starlink tonight in Townsville?

No visible passes tonight. Next good chance: Sunday 11 Oct at 5:10 am, looking north-northwest.

When is the next Starlink train over Townsville?

Saturday 10 Oct at 5:20 am: 1 satellites from launch 2026-225, appearing in the north-northwest and reaching 18°.

Which direction should I look for Starlink from Townsville?

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

Nearby cities

All of Queensland →

Cairns 283 km Mackay 324 km Rockhampton 597 km Gladstone 687 km Bundaberg 845 km Hervey Bay 908 km

Before you go out

ISS tonight in Townsville How to spot Starlink What the Starlink train is Why some nights have nothing