Satellites Tonight

Can I see Starlink tonight in Chaguanas?

Yes — best chance 6:42 pm, looking west.

It is the Starlink train: 4 satellites in a line. Visible from 6:42 pm to 6:51 pm, halfway up in the sky (31°) at its highest; visible from a suburban sky.

Updated Times in local time (AST)10.52°, -61.42°
Tonight's best pass
Appears
6:42 pm
west, 10°
Highest
6:44 pm
31° north-northwest
Fades
6:51 pm
north-northeast, 18°
NESW
≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 4 satellitesLaunch 2026-225 · 28 September 2026

The next 8 nights at a glance

3 visible passes
dark skytraineasy (mag ≤ 3.5)moderate (≤ 4)faint (≤ 5)

Pass times, night by night

start · path · brightness

Tonight · Wednesday 7 Oct

dark 6:14 pm – 5:33 am
6:42 pmto 6:51 pm · 9 min
W → NNE, highest 31° NNWappears west at 10°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 4
6:56 pmto 7:22 pm · 25 min
W → N, highest 24° NNWappears west at 10°, low at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 22

Thursday 8 Oct

no visible passes

Friday 9 Oct

dark 6:13 pm – 5:33 am
6:12 pmto 6:15 pm · 2 min
NNW → NNE, highest 17° NNWappears north-northwest at 17°, low at the top
≈ mag 5 · faintTrain · 2

Saturday 10 Oct – Wednesday 14 Oct

no visible passes

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 Chaguanas

Chaguanas is at 10.5°N. Tonight the sky is dark enough from 6:14 pm until 5:33 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 3 visible passes (3 in the evening, 0 before dawn); 1 of them should be easy to spot (estimated magnitude 4 or brighter).

The best one is on Wednesday 7 Oct at 6:42 pm: it appears in the west, climbs to 31° in the north-northwest and fades in the north-northeast at about magnitude 4.

The passes come from these launches:

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

Questions

Can I see Starlink tonight in Chaguanas?

Yes — best chance 6:42 pm, looking west. It is the Starlink train: 4 satellites in a line. Visible from 6:42 pm to 6:51 pm, halfway up in the sky (31°) at its highest; visible from a suburban sky.

When is the next Starlink train over Chaguanas?

Wednesday 7 Oct at 6:42 pm: 4 satellites from launch 2026-225, appearing in the west and reaching 31°.

Which direction should I look for Starlink from Chaguanas?

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

Also tonight: the ISS

ISS pass times for Chaguanas →

No visible pass of the International Space Station tonight. Next chance: Friday 9 Oct at 4:52 am, looking south-southeast. The space station is far brighter than Starlink satellites, so it is often the easier thing to spot.

Before you go out

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