Can I see Starlink tonight in Bloemfontein?

No visible passes tonight.

Next good chance: Wednesday 14 Oct at 4:47 am, looking north-northwest.

Updated 7 Oct 2026, 16:02 UTCTimes in local time (SAST)-29.12°, 26.21°

Next pass · Wednesday 14 Oct

Appears

4:47 am

north-northwest, 16°

Highest

5:13 am

36° north-northeast

Fades

5:15 am

east, 10°

≈ mag 3.5 · easyTrain · 24 satellitesLaunch 2026-225 · 28 September 2026

The next 8 nights at a glance

7 visible passes

4 pm6 pm8 pm10 pmmidnight2 am4 am6 am8 am

Tonight

Thu 8 Oct

Fri 9 Oct

Sat 10 Oct

Sun 11 Oct

Mon 12 Oct

Tue 13 Oct

Wed 14 Oct

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

Pass times, night by night

start · path · brightness

Tonight · Wednesday 7 Oct

dark 6:44 pm – 5:21 am

No visible passes tonight.

Thursday 8 Oct – Sunday 11 Oct

no visible passes

Monday 12 Oct

dark 6:47 pm – 5:16 am

4:27 amto 4:56 am · 29 min

NNE → NE, highest 16° NNEappears north-northeast at 10°, low at the top

≈ mag 5 · faintTrain · 24

Tuesday 13 Oct

dark 6:48 pm – 5:15 am

4:27 amto 4:30 am · 3 min

N → ENE, highest 18° NNEappears north at 17°, low at the top

≈ mag 5 · faintTrain · 1

4:47 amto 5:15 am · 28 min

NNW → E, highest 36° NNEappears north-northwest at 16°, halfway up at the top

≈ mag 3.5 · easyTrain · 24

Wednesday 14 Oct

dark 6:48 pm – 5:13 am

3:50 amto 4:04 am · 15 min

ENE → ENE, highest 18° NEappears east-northeast at 12°, low at the top

≈ mag 5 · faintTrain · 9

4:10 amto 4:11 am · 2 min

NE → ENE, highest 21° NEappears northeast at 21°, low at the top

≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 1

4:44 amto 4:48 am · 4 min

NW → E, highest 38° NNEappears northwest at 20°, halfway up at the top

≈ mag 3.5 · easyTrain · 1

5:01 amto 5:13 am · 13 min

WNW → E, highest 54° NNEappears west-northwest at 13°, high at the top

≈ mag 3 · easyTrain · 11

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 Bloemfontein

Bloemfontein is at 29.1°S. Tonight the sky is dark enough from 6:44 pm until 5:21 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 7 visible passes (0 in the evening, 7 before dawn); 3 of them should be easy to spot (estimated magnitude 4 or brighter).

The best one is on Thursday 15 Oct at 5:01 am: it appears in the west-northwest, climbs to 54° in the north-northeast and fades in the east at about magnitude 3.

The passes come from these launches:

2026-225, launched 28 September 2026 (train, 26 satellites, now 296–315 km up): 7 passes here

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

Questions

Can I see Starlink tonight in Bloemfontein?

No visible passes tonight. Next good chance: Wednesday 14 Oct at 4:47 am, looking north-northwest.

When is the next Starlink train over Bloemfontein?

Tuesday 13 Oct at 4:27 am: 24 satellites from launch 2026-225, appearing in the north-northeast and reaching 16°.

Which direction should I look for Starlink from Bloemfontein?

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

Nearby cities

All of South Africa →

Botshabelo 52 km Welkom 137 km Vanderbijlpark 312 km Vereeniging 320 km Evaton 330 km Soweto 356 km

Before you go out

How to spot Starlink What the Starlink train is Why some nights have nothing