Satellites Tonight

Can I see Starlink tonight in Drogheda?

Yes — best chance 5:33 am, looking north-northeast.

Visible from 5:33 am to 5:49 am, almost overhead in the sky (75°) at its highest; easy to see away from bright lights.

Updated Times in local time (IST)53.72°, -6.35°
Tonight's best pass
Appears
5:33 am
north-northeast, 58°
Highest
5:38 am
75° north
Fades
5:49 am
north-northeast, 11°
NESW
≈ mag 3.5 · easy6 satellites, same launchLaunch 2026-219 · 20 September 2026

The next 8 nights at a glance

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

Pass times, night by night

start · path · brightness

Tonight · Wednesday 7 Oct

dark 7:23 pm – 7:04 am
4:58 amto 5:28 am · 30 min
ENE → NE, highest 51° NEappears east-northeast at 26°, high at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faint11 satellites
5:33 amto 5:49 am · 16 min
NNE → NNE, highest 75° Nappears north-northeast at 58°, almost overhead at the top
≈ mag 3.5 · easy6 satellites
5:55 amto 6:16 am · 21 min
WNW → NNE, highest 48° WNWappears west-northwest at 48°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 3.5 · easy7 satellites
6:18 amto 6:28 am · 10 min
WNW → NNE, highest 29° NWappears west-northwest at 25°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faint3 satellites
6:30 amto 7:01 am · 31 min
WNW → N, highest 23° NWappears west-northwest at 20°, low at the top
≈ mag 5 · faint11 satellites

Thursday 8 Oct

dark 7:21 pm – 7:06 am
5:17 amto 5:25 am · 8 min
NE → NE, highest 38° NNEappears northeast at 32°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faint3 satellites
5:28 amto 5:59 am · 31 min
NNE → NNE, highest 41° NNWappears north-northeast at 40°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4 · moderate11 satellites
6:02 amto 6:20 am · 18 min
NW → NNE, highest 29° NWappears northwest at 29°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faint6 satellites

Friday 9 Oct

dark 7:18 pm – 7:08 am
5:28 amto 5:43 am · 15 min
N → NNE, highest 30° Nappears north at 28°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 5 · faint7 satellites
5:47 amto 5:55 am · 8 min
NNW → NNE, highest 27° NNWappears north-northwest at 25°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 5 · faint3 satellites

Saturday 10 Oct – Wednesday 14 Oct

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 Drogheda

Drogheda is at 53.7°N. Tonight the sky is dark enough from 7:23 pm until 7:04 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 10 visible passes (0 in the evening, 10 before dawn); 3 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 75° in the north and fades in the north-northeast at about magnitude 3.5.

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 Drogheda 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 Drogheda?

Yes — best chance 5:33 am, looking north-northeast. Visible from 5:33 am to 5:49 am, almost overhead in the sky (75°) at its highest; easy to see away from bright lights.

When is the next Starlink train over Drogheda?

There is no train pass over Drogheda 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 Drogheda?

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

Nearby cities

All of Ireland →
Navan 23 kmSwords 30 kmDundalk 32 kmDublin 43 kmTallaght 48 kmDún Laoghaire 49 km

Before you go out

How to spot StarlinkWhat the Starlink train isWhy some nights have nothing