Can I see Starlink tonight in Maiduguri?
No visible passes tonight.
Next good chance: Thursday 8 Oct at 6:14 pm, looking west-southwest.
The next 8 nights at a glance
2 visible passesPass times, night by night
start · path · brightnessTonight · Wednesday 7 Oct
dark 6:15 pm – 5:35 amThursday 8 Oct
dark 6:15 pm – 5:35 amFriday 9 Oct
dark 6:14 pm – 5:35 amSaturday 10 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.
Seeing Starlink from Maiduguri
Maiduguri is at 11.8°N. Tonight the sky is dark enough from 6:15 pm until 5:35 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 2 visible passes (2 in the evening, 0 before dawn); 1 of them should be easy to spot (estimated magnitude 4 or brighter).
The best one is on Thursday 8 Oct at 6:14 pm: it appears in the west-southwest, climbs to 55° in the north-northwest and fades in the northeast at about magnitude 3.
The nearest city on our list with a good Starlink pass tonight is Onitsha, about 944 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): 2 passes here
Satellites from launch 2026-219 (20 September 2026) are also low and bright, but they do not pass over Maiduguri while it is dark and they are sunlit in this period.
Questions
Can I see Starlink tonight in Maiduguri?
No visible passes tonight. Next good chance: Thursday 8 Oct at 6:14 pm, looking west-southwest.
When is the next Starlink train over Maiduguri?
Thursday 8 Oct at 6:14 pm: 16 satellites from launch 2026-225, appearing in the west-southwest and reaching 55°.
Which direction should I look for Starlink from Maiduguri?
This week most passes appear in the west-southwest or west. Each pass above lists where it appears, how high it climbs and where it fades.
Nearby cities
All of Nigeria →Also tonight: the ISS
ISS pass times for Maiduguri →No visible pass of the International Space Station tonight. Next chance: Friday 9 Oct at 5:13 am, looking south. The space station is far brighter than Starlink satellites, so it is often the easier thing to spot.