Satellites Tonight

Can I see Starlink tonight in Aberdeen?

Yes — best chance 5:33 am, looking southwest.

Visible from 5:33 am to 5:51 am, almost overhead in the sky (85°) at its highest; easy to see away from bright lights.

Updated Times in local time (BST)57.14°, -2.10°
Tonight's best pass
Appears
5:33 am
southwest, 54°
Highest
5:36 am
85° west-southwest
Fades
5:51 am
northeast, 12°
NESW
≈ mag 3.5 · easy6 satellites, same launchLaunch 2026-219 · 20 September 2026

The next 8 nights at a glance

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

Pass times, night by night

start · path · brightness

Tonight · Wednesday 7 Oct

dark 7:06 pm – 6:48 am
4:46 amto 4:55 am · 9 min
ESE → NE, highest 33° ESEappears east-southeast at 28°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 5 · faint3 satellites
4:58 amto 5:29 am · 31 min
ESE → NE, highest 73° SSEappears east-southeast at 37°, high at the top
≈ mag 3.5 · easy11 satellites
5:33 amto 5:51 am · 17 min
SW → NE, highest 85° WSWappears southwest at 54°, almost overhead at the top
≈ mag 3.5 · easy6 satellites
5:55 amto 6:17 am · 22 min
WSW → NNE, highest 52° NWappears west-southwest at 29°, high at the top
≈ mag 4 · moderate7 satellites
6:18 amto 6:29 am · 11 min
W → NNE, highest 33° NWappears west at 16°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faint3 satellites
6:30 amto 6:48 am · 18 min
W → NNE, highest 27° NWappears west at 14°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faint6 satellites

Thursday 8 Oct

dark 7:03 pm – 6:50 am
4:54 amto 5:14 am · 20 min
E → NE, highest 67° ENEappears east at 43°, high at the top
≈ mag 4 · moderate7 satellites
5:17 amto 5:26 am · 9 min
NE → NE, highest 84° NNEappears northeast at 78°, almost overhead at the top
≈ mag 3.5 · easy3 satellites
5:28 amto 6:00 am · 32 min
W → NE, highest 71° NNWappears west at 68°, high at the top
≈ mag 3.5 · easy11 satellites
6:02 amto 6:21 am · 19 min
W → NNE, highest 34° NWappears west at 26°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faint6 satellites
6:26 amto 6:47 am · 21 min
W → NNE, highest 24° NWappears west at 15°, low at the top
≈ mag 5 · faint7 satellites

Friday 9 Oct

dark 7:00 pm – 6:52 am
4:26 amto 4:52 am · 26 min
ENE → NE, highest 43° ENEappears east-northeast at 22°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faint10 satellites
4:56 amto 4:58 am · 2 min
NE → NE, highest 39° NEappears northeast at 39°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 5 · faintSTARLINK-38438
5:02 amto 5:18 am · 16 min
NE → NE, highest 61° Nappears northeast at 55°, high at the top
≈ mag 3.5 · easy6 satellites
5:28 amto 5:44 am · 16 min
NNW → NNE, highest 51° NNWappears north-northwest at 51°, high at the top
≈ mag 4 · moderate7 satellites
5:47 amto 5:56 am · 9 min
NW → NNE, highest 35° NWappears northwest at 34°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faint3 satellites
5:58 amto 6:31 am · 33 min
WNW → NNE, highest 29° NWappears west-northwest at 27°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faint11 satellites

Saturday 10 Oct

dark 6:58 pm – 6:54 am
4:57 amto 5:23 am · 27 min
NNE → NE, highest 42° Nappears north-northeast at 31°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faint10 satellites
5:27 amto 5:29 am · 2 min
NNW → NNE, highest 37° NNWappears north-northwest at 37°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faintSTARLINK-38438
5:34 amto 5:48 am · 14 min
NW → NNE, highest 34° NWappears northwest at 34°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faint6 satellites

Sunday 11 Oct

dark 6:55 pm – 6:56 am
4:58 amto 5:12 am · 14 min
NNE → NNE, highest 35° Nappears north-northeast at 29°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 5 · faint6 satellites
5:15 amto 5:23 am · 8 min
N → NNE, highest 34° NNWappears north at 30°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faint4 satellites
5:27 amto 5:42 am · 16 min
NNW → NNE, highest 27° NNWappears north-northwest at 27°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 5 · faint6 satellites

Monday 12 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 Aberdeen

Aberdeen is at 57.1°N. Tonight the sky is dark enough from 7:06 pm until 6:48 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 23 visible passes (0 in the evening, 23 before dawn); 8 of them should be easy to spot (estimated magnitude 4 or brighter).

The best one is on Thursday 8 Oct at 5:33 am: it appears in the southwest, climbs to 85° in the west-southwest and fades in the northeast at about magnitude 3.5.

The passes come from these launches:

Satellites from launch 2026-225 (28 September 2026) are also low and bright, but they do not pass over Aberdeen while it is dark and they are sunlit in this period.

No train is visible this week. A train is only a train for about the first 10 days after a launch; here is why some weeks have nothing.

Questions

Can I see Starlink tonight in Aberdeen?

Yes — best chance 5:33 am, looking southwest. Visible from 5:33 am to 5:51 am, almost overhead in the sky (85°) at its highest; easy to see away from bright lights.

When is the next Starlink train over Aberdeen?

There is no train pass over Aberdeen in the next 8 nights. Trains are only visible for about 10 days after a launch; the latest launch in our data is 2026-225 on 28 September 2026.

Which direction should I look for Starlink from Aberdeen?

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

Nearby cities

All of Scotland →
Dundee 92 kmEdinburgh 149 kmGlasgow 194 kmEast Kilbride 200 kmPaisley 204 kmSouth Shields 242 km

Before you go out

How to spot StarlinkWhat the Starlink train isWhy some nights have nothing