Can I see Starlink tonight in Takoradi?
Only faint passes tonight.
Best: 4:12 am looking east-southeast, about magnitude 4.5. You will need a dark sky away from city lights.
The next 8 nights at a glance
3 visible passesPass times, night by night
start · path · brightnessTonight · Wednesday 7 Oct
dark 6:18 pm – 5:32 amThursday 8 Oct – Wednesday 14 Oct
no visible passesMagnitude 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 Takoradi
Takoradi is at 4.9°N. Tonight the sky is dark enough from 6:18 pm until 5:32 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 (1 in the evening, 2 before dawn); 0 of them should be easy to spot (estimated magnitude 4 or brighter).
The best one is on Thursday 8 Oct at 4:12 am: it appears in the east-southeast, climbs to 25° in the southeast and fades in the east-southeast at about magnitude 4.5.
The passes come from these launches:
- 2026-225, launched 28 September 2026 (train, 26 satellites, now 296–316 km up): 3 passes here
Satellites from launch 2026-219 (20 September 2026) are also low and bright, but they do not pass over Takoradi while it is dark and they are sunlit in this period.
Questions
Can I see Starlink tonight in Takoradi?
Only faint passes tonight. Best: 4:12 am looking east-southeast, about magnitude 4.5. You will need a dark sky away from city lights.
When is the next Starlink train over Takoradi?
Wednesday 7 Oct at 6:36 pm: 13 satellites from launch 2026-225, appearing in the northwest and reaching 18°.
Which direction should I look for Starlink from Takoradi?
This week most passes appear in the northwest or east-southeast. Each pass above lists where it appears, how high it climbs and where it fades.
Nearby cities
All of Ghana →Also tonight: the ISS
ISS pass times for Takoradi →Yes — best chance 4:58 am, looking southeast. Visible from 4:58 am to 5:00 am, low in the sky (12°) at its highest; about magnitude 1.5, easy to see, even from a city. The space station is far brighter than Starlink satellites, so it is often the easier thing to spot.