Can I see Starlink tonight in Abuja?
Only faint passes tonight.
Best: 5:08 am looking south, about magnitude 5. You will need a dark sky away from city lights.
The next 8 nights at a glance
1 visible passPass times, night by night
start · path · brightnessTonight · Wednesday 7 Oct
dark 6:39 pm – 5:57 amThursday 8 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 Abuja →No visible pass of the International Space Station tonight. Next chance: Friday 9 Oct at 5:12 am, looking south-southeast. The space station is far brighter than Starlink satellites, so it is often the easier thing to spot.
Tiangong, China's space station
0 visible passes in 8 nightsNo visible pass of Tiangong over Abuja in the next 8 nights. Like the ISS, it is seen in spells of a week or two when its track lines up with your dusk or dawn; this page is recomputed every 6 hours.
Seeing Starlink from Abuja
Abuja is at 9.1°N. Tonight the sky is dark enough from 6:39 pm until 5:57 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 1 visible pass (0 in the evening, 1 before dawn); 0 of them should be easy to spot (estimated magnitude 4 or brighter).
The best one is on Thursday 8 Oct at 5:08 am: it appears in the south, climbs to 15° in the south and fades in the south-southeast at about magnitude 5.
The nearest city on our list with a good Starlink pass tonight is Onitsha, about 333 km away, at 5:08 am local time. Passes shift a long way over that distance, so use its times only as a rough guide.
The passes come from these launches:
- 2026-225, launched 28 September 2026 (train, 26 satellites, now 296–316 km up): 1 pass here
Satellites from launch 2026-219 (20 September 2026) are also low and bright, but they do not pass over Abuja while it is dark and they are sunlit in this period.
Questions
Can I see Starlink tonight in Abuja?
Only faint passes tonight. Best: 5:08 am looking south, about magnitude 5. You will need a dark sky away from city lights.
When is the next Starlink train over Abuja?
Thursday 8 Oct at 5:08 am: 22 satellites from launch 2026-225, appearing in the south and reaching 15°.
Which direction should I look for Starlink from Abuja?
This week most passes appear in the south. Each pass above lists where it appears, how high it climbs and where it fades.