Satellites Tonight

Can I see Starlink tonight in Kamloops, British Columbia?

Only faint passes tonight.

Best: 5:12 am looking north, about magnitude 4.5. You will need a dark sky away from city lights.

Updated Times in local time (PDT)50.67°, -120.32°
Tonight's best pass
Appears
5:12 am
north, 29°
Highest
5:14 am
33° north
Fades
5:28 am
north-northeast, 11°
NESW
≈ mag 4.5 · faint6 satellites, same launchLaunch 2026-219 · 20 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, Oct 7

dark 6:59 pm – 6:40 am
4:37 amto 5:07 am · 29 min
NE → NE, highest 33° NNEappears northeast at 19°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 5 · faint11 satellites
5:12 amto 5:28 am · 16 min
N → NNE, highest 33° Nappears north at 29°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faint6 satellites
5:34 amto 5:54 am · 20 min
NNW → N, highest 26° NNWappears north-northwest at 26°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 5 · faint7 satellites

Thursday, Oct 8 – Wednesday, Oct 14

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 Kamloops

Kamloops is at 50.7°N. Tonight the sky is dark enough from 6:59 pm until 6:40 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); 0 of them should be easy to spot (estimated magnitude 4 or brighter).

The best one is on Thursday, Oct 8 at 5:12 am: it appears in the north, climbs to 33° in the north and fades in the north-northeast at about magnitude 4.5.

The passes come from these launches:

Satellites from launch 2026-225 (28 September 2026) are also low and bright, but they do not pass over Kamloops while it is dark and they are sunlit in this period.

No train is visible this week. A train is only a train for about the first 10 days after a launch; here is why some weeks have nothing.

Questions

Can I see Starlink tonight in Kamloops?

Only faint passes tonight. Best: 5:12 am looking north, about magnitude 4.5. You will need a dark sky away from city lights.

When is the next Starlink train over Kamloops?

There is no train pass over Kamloops in the next 8 nights. Trains are only visible for about 10 days after a launch; the latest launch in our data is 2026-225 on 28 September 2026.

Which direction should I look for Starlink from Kamloops?

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

Also tonight: the ISS

ISS pass times for Kamloops →

No visible pass of the International Space Station tonight. Next chance: Tuesday, Oct 13 at 6:45 am, looking south-southeast. The space station is far brighter than Starlink satellites, so it is often the easier thing to spot.

Before you go out