Satellites Tonight

Can I see Starlink tonight in Nakuru?

Yes — best chance 5:23 am, looking northwest.

It is the Starlink train: 4 satellites in a line. Visible from 5:23 am to 5:32 am, almost overhead in the sky (86°) at its highest; bright enough to see from a city.

Updated Times in local time (EAT)-0.31°, 36.07°
Tonight's best pass
Appears
5:23 am
northwest, 49°
Highest
5:25 am
86° west-northwest
Fades
5:32 am
east-southeast, 11°
NESW
≈ mag 2 · brightTrain · 4 satellitesLaunch 2026-225 · 28 September 2026

The next 8 nights at a glance

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

Pass times, night by night

start · path · brightness

Tonight · Wednesday 7 Oct

dark 6:48 pm – 5:59 am
5:23 amto 5:32 am · 9 min
NW → ESE, highest 86° WNWappears northwest at 49°, almost overhead at the top
≈ mag 2 · brightTrain · 4
5:37 amto 5:59 am · 22 min
WNW → SE, highest 57° SSWappears west-northwest at 21°, high at the top
≈ mag 2.5 · brightTrain · 20

Thursday 8 Oct

dark 6:48 pm – 5:58 am
5:29 amto 5:37 am · 8 min
SW → SSE, highest 26° SSWappears southwest at 26°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 3.5 · easyTrain · 3
5:39 amto 5:42 am · 3 min
WSW → SSE, highest 21° SSWappears west-southwest at 17°, low at the top
≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 1
5:50 amto 5:58 am · 9 min
WSW → S, highest 17° SSWappears west-southwest at 11°, low at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 6

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 Nakuru

Nakuru is at 0.3°S. Tonight the sky is dark enough from 6:48 pm until 5:59 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 5 visible passes (0 in the evening, 5 before dawn); 4 of them should be easy to spot (estimated magnitude 4 or brighter).

The best one is on Thursday 8 Oct at 5:23 am: it appears in the northwest, climbs to 86° in the west-northwest and fades in the east-southeast at about magnitude 2.

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 Nakuru while it is dark and they are sunlit in this period.

Questions

Can I see Starlink tonight in Nakuru?

Yes — best chance 5:23 am, looking northwest. It is the Starlink train: 4 satellites in a line. Visible from 5:23 am to 5:32 am, almost overhead in the sky (86°) at its highest; bright enough to see from a city.

When is the next Starlink train over Nakuru?

Thursday 8 Oct at 5:23 am: 4 satellites from launch 2026-225, appearing in the northwest and reaching 86°.

Which direction should I look for Starlink from Nakuru?

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

Nearby cities

All of Kenya →
Ruiru 136 kmNairobi 136 kmKakamega 161 kmMombasa 577 km

Also tonight: the ISS

ISS pass times for Nakuru →

No visible pass of the International Space Station tonight. Next chance: Friday 9 Oct at 5:36 am, looking south-southwest. The space station is far brighter than Starlink satellites, so it is often the easier thing to spot.

Before you go out

ISS tonight in NakuruHow to spot StarlinkWhat the Starlink train isWhy some nights have nothing