Satellites Tonight

Can I see Starlink tonight in Kingston?

Yes — best chance 6:12 pm, looking southeast.

It is the Starlink train: 9 satellites in a line. Visible from 6:12 pm to 6:22 pm, low in the sky (23°) at its highest; visible from a suburban sky.

Updated Times in local time (EST)18.00°, -76.79°
Tonight's best pass
Appears
6:12 pm
southeast, 19°
Highest
6:20 pm
23° south-southeast
Fades
6:22 pm
east, 10°
NESW
≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 9 satellitesLaunch 2026-225 · 28 September 2026

The next 8 nights at a glance

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

Pass times, night by night

start · path · brightness

Tonight · Wednesday 7 Oct

dark 6:13 pm – 5:37 am
6:12 pmto 6:22 pm · 10 min
SE → E, highest 23° SSEappears southeast at 19°, low at the top
≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 9
7:15 pmto 7:22 pm · 7 min
WSW → WSW, highest 27° WSWappears west-southwest at 10°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 4

Thursday 8 Oct

dark 6:12 pm – 5:37 am
6:12 pmto 6:35 pm · 23 min
S → E, highest 77° SSEappears south at 41°, almost overhead at the top
≈ mag 2.5 · brightTrain · 21

Friday 9 Oct

dark 6:12 pm – 5:37 am
6:11 pmto 6:14 pm · 3 min
NW → ENE, highest 78° NWappears northwest at 78°, almost overhead at the top
≈ mag 2.5 · brightTrain · 1
6:21 pmto 6:49 pm · 28 min
WSW → NE, highest 58° NWappears west-southwest at 13°, high at the top
≈ mag 3 · easyTrain · 22

Saturday 10 Oct

dark 6:11 pm – 5:37 am
6:10 pmto 6:14 pm · 4 min
WNW → NE, highest 34° NNWappears west-northwest at 21°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 3.5 · easyTrain · 1
6:24 pmto 6:29 pm · 5 min
W → NE, highest 27° NNWappears west at 11°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 1
6:38 pmto 7:03 pm · 25 min
WNW → NNE, highest 22° NNWappears west-northwest at 10°, low at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 22

Sunday 11 Oct

dark 6:10 pm – 5:38 am
6:21 pmto 6:25 pm · 4 min
WNW → NNE, highest 17° NNWappears west-northwest at 11°, low at the top
≈ mag 5 · faintTrain · 1

Monday 12 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 Kingston

Kingston is at 18.0°N. Tonight the sky is dark enough from 6:13 pm until 5:37 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 9 visible passes (9 in the evening, 0 before dawn); 6 of them should be easy to spot (estimated magnitude 4 or brighter).

The best one is on Friday 9 Oct at 6:11 pm: it appears in the northwest, climbs to 78° in the northwest and fades in the east-northeast at about magnitude 2.5.

The passes come from these launches:

Satellites from launch 2026-219 (20 September 2026) are also low and bright, but they do not pass over Kingston while it is dark and they are sunlit in this period.

Questions

Can I see Starlink tonight in Kingston?

Yes — best chance 6:12 pm, looking southeast. It is the Starlink train: 9 satellites in a line. Visible from 6:12 pm to 6:22 pm, low in the sky (23°) at its highest; visible from a suburban sky.

When is the next Starlink train over Kingston?

Wednesday 7 Oct at 6:12 pm: 9 satellites from launch 2026-225, appearing in the southeast and reaching 23°.

Which direction should I look for Starlink from Kingston?

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

Nearby cities

All of Jamaica →
Spanish Town 17 km

Before you go out

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