Can I see Starlink tonight in Onitsha?
Yes — best chance 5:08 am, looking south-southeast.
It is the Starlink train: 22 satellites in a line. Visible from 5:08 am to 5:32 am, halfway up in the sky (27°) at its highest; visible from a suburban sky.
The next 8 nights at a glance
2 visible passesPass times, night by night
start · path · brightnessTonight · Wednesday 7 Oct
dark 6:43 pm – 5:58 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.
Seeing Starlink from Onitsha
Onitsha is at 6.1°N. Tonight the sky is dark enough from 6:43 pm until 5:58 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 (0 in the evening, 2 before dawn); 1 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-southeast, climbs to 27° in the south and fades in the southeast at about magnitude 4.
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 Onitsha while it is dark and they are sunlit in this period.
Questions
Can I see Starlink tonight in Onitsha?
Yes — best chance 5:08 am, looking south-southeast. It is the Starlink train: 22 satellites in a line. Visible from 5:08 am to 5:32 am, halfway up in the sky (27°) at its highest; visible from a suburban sky.
When is the next Starlink train over Onitsha?
Thursday 8 Oct at 4:53 am: 4 satellites from launch 2026-225, appearing in the southeast and reaching 21°.
Which direction should I look for Starlink from Onitsha?
This week most passes appear in the southeast or south-southeast. 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 Onitsha →Yes — best chance 5:57 am, looking south. Visible from 5:57 am to 5:58 am, low in the sky (15°) at its highest; about magnitude -1.5, as bright as the brightest stars. The space station is far brighter than Starlink satellites, so it is often the easier thing to spot.