Satellites Tonight

Can I see Starlink tonight in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan?

Yes — best chance 5:02 am, looking north-northeast.

Visible from 5:02 am to 5:22 am, halfway up in the sky (46°) at its highest; visible from a suburban sky.

Updated Times in local time (CST)52.13°, -106.67°
Also tonight over Saskatoon
Tonight's best pass
Appears
5:02 am
north-northeast, 40°
Highest
5:14 am
46° north
Fades
5:22 am
north-northeast, 10°
NESW
≈ mag 4 · moderate7 satellites, same launchLaunch 2026-219 · 20 September 2026

The next 8 nights at a glance

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

Pass times, night by night

start · path · brightness

Tonight · Wednesday, Oct 7

dark 7:04 pm – 6:46 am
5:02 amto 5:22 am · 20 min
NNE → NNE, highest 46° Nappears north-northeast at 40°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4 · moderate7 satellites
5:26 amto 5:34 am · 9 min
NNW → NNE, highest 41° NNWappears north-northwest at 41°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4 · moderate3 satellites
5:37 amto 6:08 am · 30 min
NNW → NNE, highest 33° NNWappears north-northwest at 33°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faint11 satellites

Thursday, Oct 8

dark 7:02 pm – 6:47 am
5:10 amto 5:26 am · 16 min
N → NNE, highest 31° Nappears north at 25°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 5 · faint6 satellites

Friday, Oct 9 – 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.

No visible pass of the International Space Station tonight. Next chance: Thursday, Oct 15 at 6:13 am, looking south-southeast. The space station is far brighter than Starlink satellites, so it is often the easier thing to spot.

Tiangong, China's space station

2 visible passes in 8 nights

Yes · 5:26 am, look south. Tiangong orbits about 386 km up, tilted 41.5° to the equator. It looks like a bright, steady star gliding across the sky, fainter than the ISS but easy to see without a telescope.

NightAppearsLookHighestMag ≈
Thursday, Oct 85:26 amsouth13° S0
Friday, Oct 96:02 amsouth-southwest11° S0

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

Seeing Starlink from Saskatoon

Saskatoon is at 52.1°N. Tonight the sky is dark enough from 7:04 pm until 6:46 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 4 visible passes (0 in the evening, 4 before dawn); 2 of them should be easy to spot (estimated magnitude 4 or brighter).

The best one is on Thursday, Oct 8 at 5:02 am: it appears in the north-northeast, climbs to 46° in the north and fades in the north-northeast at about magnitude 4.

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 Saskatoon 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 Saskatoon?

Yes — best chance 5:02 am, looking north-northeast. Visible from 5:02 am to 5:22 am, halfway up in the sky (46°) at its highest; visible from a suburban sky.

When is the next Starlink train over Saskatoon?

There is no train pass over Saskatoon 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 Saskatoon?

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

Before you go out