Satellites Tonight

Can I see Starlink tonight in Waterford?

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

Visible from 5:33 am to 5:49 am, high in the sky (54°) at its highest; visible from a suburban sky.

Updated Times in local time (IST)52.26°, -7.11°
Tonight's best pass
Appears
5:33 am
north-northeast, 41°
Highest
5:38 am
54° north
Fades
5:49 am
north-northeast, 11°
NESW
≈ mag 4 · moderate6 satellites, same launchLaunch 2026-219 · 20 September 2026

The next 8 nights at a glance

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

Pass times, night by night

start · path · brightness

Tonight · Wednesday 7 Oct

dark 7:26 pm – 7:07 am
4:58 amto 5:27 am · 30 min
ENE → NE, highest 38° NEappears east-northeast at 22°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 5 · faint11 satellites
5:33 amto 5:49 am · 16 min
NNE → NNE, highest 54° Nappears north-northeast at 41°, high at the top
≈ mag 4 · moderate6 satellites
5:55 amto 6:15 am · 20 min
NW → NNE, highest 42° NWappears northwest at 42°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4 · moderate7 satellites
6:18 amto 6:27 am · 9 min
WNW → NNE, highest 26° NWappears west-northwest at 25°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faint3 satellites

Thursday 8 Oct

dark 7:24 pm – 7:09 am
5:28 amto 5:58 am · 31 min
NNE → NNE, highest 32° NNWappears north-northeast at 30°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faint11 satellites
6:02 amto 6:19 am · 17 min
NNW → N, highest 25° NNWappears north-northwest at 25°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 5 · faint6 satellites

Friday 9 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 Waterford

Waterford is at 52.3°N. Tonight the sky is dark enough from 7:26 pm until 7:07 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 54° 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 Waterford 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 Waterford?

Yes — best chance 5:33 am, looking north-northeast. Visible from 5:33 am to 5:49 am, high in the sky (54°) at its highest; visible from a suburban sky.

When is the next Starlink train over Waterford?

There is no train pass over Waterford 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 Waterford?

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

Nearby cities

All of Ireland →
Carlow 66 kmDouglas 100 kmCork 101 kmLimerick 112 kmTallaght 125 kmBray 125 km

Before you go out

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