Can I see Starlink tonight in Emalahleni?

No visible passes tonight.

Next good chance: Tuesday 13 Oct at 4:25 am, looking north.

Updated 7 Oct 2026, 18:36 UTCTimes in local time (SAST)-25.87°, 29.23°

Next pass · Tuesday 13 Oct

Appears

4:25 am

north, 17°

Highest

4:48 am

31° north-northeast

Fades

4:51 am

east-northeast, 11°

≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 22 satellitesLaunch 2026-225 · 28 September 2026

The next 8 nights at a glance

10 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 6:29 pm – 5:12 am

No visible passes tonight.

Thursday 8 Oct – Saturday 10 Oct

no visible passes

Sunday 11 Oct

dark 6:31 pm – 5:08 am

4:49 amto 4:52 am · 4 min

NNW → ENE, highest 17° NNEappears north-northwest at 11°, low at the top

≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 2

Monday 12 Oct

dark 6:32 pm – 5:07 am

4:12 amto 4:14 am · 2 min

NNE → ENE, highest 17° NNEappears north-northeast at 17°, low at the top

≈ mag 5 · faintTrain · 1

4:25 amto 4:51 am · 26 min

N → ENE, highest 31° NNEappears north at 17°, halfway up at the top

≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 22

4:55 amto 5:00 am · 5 min

NW → E, highest 36° NNEappears northwest at 11°, halfway up at the top

≈ mag 3.5 · easyTrain · 2

Tuesday 13 Oct

dark 6:32 pm – 5:06 am

4:15 amto 4:18 am · 3 min

NNE → E, highest 32° NNEappears north-northeast at 31°, halfway up at the top

≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 1

4:30 amto 4:34 am · 4 min

NNW → E, highest 42° NNEappears north-northwest at 27°, halfway up at the top

≈ mag 3.5 · easyTrain · 1

4:37 amto 5:06 am · 28 min

NW → E, highest 81° NNEappears northwest at 22°, almost overhead at the top

≈ mag 2.5 · brightTrain · 21

Wednesday 14 Oct

dark 6:33 pm – 5:05 am

3:37 amto 4:00 am · 23 min

ENE → E, highest 34° NEappears east-northeast at 14°, halfway up at the top

≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 12

4:32 amto 4:36 am · 4 min

WNW → ESE, highest 80° Nappears west-northwest at 35°, almost overhead at the top

≈ mag 2.5 · brightTrain · 1

4:47 amto 5:05 am · 17 min

WNW → ESE, highest 77° SSEappears west-northwest at 19°, almost overhead at the top

≈ mag 2.5 · brightTrain · 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 Emalahleni

Emalahleni is at 25.9°S. Tonight the sky is dark enough from 6:29 pm until 5:12 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 10 visible passes (0 in the evening, 10 before dawn); 8 of them should be easy to spot (estimated magnitude 4 or brighter).

The best one is on Wednesday 14 Oct at 4:37 am: it appears in the northwest, climbs to 81° in the north-northeast and fades in the east at about magnitude 2.5.

The passes come from these launches:

2026-225, launched 28 September 2026 (train, 26 satellites, now 296–316 km up): 10 passes here

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

Questions

Can I see Starlink tonight in Emalahleni?

No visible passes tonight. Next good chance: Tuesday 13 Oct at 4:25 am, looking north.

When is the next Starlink train over Emalahleni?

Monday 12 Oct at 4:49 am: 2 satellites from launch 2026-225, appearing in the north-northwest and reaching 17°.

Which direction should I look for Starlink from Emalahleni?

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

Nearby cities

All of South Africa →

Brakpan 95 km Benoni 98 km Thembisa 102 km Boksburg 104 km Pretoria 106 km Germiston 113 km

Also tonight: the ISS

ISS pass times for Emalahleni →

Yes — best chance 3:45 am, looking east-southeast. Visible from 3:45 am to 3:47 am, halfway up in the sky (34°) 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.

Before you go out

ISS tonight in Emalahleni How to spot Starlink What the Starlink train is Why some nights have nothing