Can I see Starlink tonight in Cork?
Yes — best chance 5:33 am, looking north-northeast.
Visible from 5:33 am to 5:49 am, halfway up in the sky (47°) at its highest; visible from a suburban sky.
The next 8 nights at a glance
6 visible passesPass times, night by night
start · path · brightnessTonight · Wednesday 7 Oct
dark 7:32 pm – 7:12 amThursday 8 Oct
dark 7:30 pm – 7:14 amFriday 9 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.
The ISS tonight
ISS pass times for Cork →No visible pass of the International Space Station tonight. Next chance: Thursday 15 Oct at 7:01 am, looking south. The space station is far brighter than Starlink satellites, so it is often the easier thing to spot.
Tiangong, China's space station
3 visible passes in 8 nightsYes · 6:17 am, look south-southwest. 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.
| Night | Appears | Highest | Mag ≈ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thursday 8 Oct | 6:17 am | 13° S | 0 |
| Friday 9 Oct | 6:54 am | 11° SSW | 0.5 |
| Saturday 10 Oct | 5:57 am | 11° S | 0.5 |
Local time. Brightness is a rough estimate (±1 magnitude; lower is brighter). How we compute this.
Seeing Starlink from Cork
Cork is at 51.9°N. Tonight the sky is dark enough from 7:32 pm until 7:12 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 6 visible passes (0 in the evening, 6 before dawn); 2 of them should be easy to spot (estimated magnitude 4 or brighter).
The best one is on Thursday 8 Oct at 5:33 am: it appears in the north-northeast, climbs to 47° in the north and fades in the north-northeast at about magnitude 4.
The passes come from these launches:
- 2026-219, launched 20 September 2026 (27 satellites, now 341–366 km up): 6 passes here
Satellites from launch 2026-225 (28 September 2026) are also low and bright, but they do not pass over Cork 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 Cork?
Yes — best chance 5:33 am, looking north-northeast. Visible from 5:33 am to 5:49 am, halfway up in the sky (47°) at its highest; visible from a suburban sky.
When is the next Starlink train over Cork?
There is no train pass over Cork 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 Cork?
This week most passes appear in the north-northeast or north-northwest. Each pass above lists where it appears, how high it climbs and where it fades.