Satellites Tonight

Can I see Starlink tonight in Blackpool?

Yes — best chance 4:58 am, looking east-northeast.

Visible from 4:58 am to 5:28 am, high in the sky (71°) at its highest; easy to see away from bright lights.

Updated Times in local time (BST)53.82°, -3.05°
Tonight's best pass
Appears
4:58 am
east-northeast, 37°
Highest
5:22 am
71° north-northeast
Fades
5:28 am
northeast, 11°
NESW
≈ mag 3.5 · easy11 satellites, same launchLaunch 2026-219 · 20 September 2026

The next 8 nights at a glance

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

Pass times, night by night

start · path · brightness

Tonight · Wednesday 7 Oct

dark 7:10 pm – 6:51 am
4:58 amto 5:28 am · 30 min
ENE → NE, highest 71° NNEappears east-northeast at 37°, high at the top
≈ mag 3.5 · easy11 satellites
5:33 amto 5:50 am · 17 min
NNW → NNE, highest 61° NWappears north-northwest at 59°, high at the top
≈ mag 3.5 · easy6 satellites
5:55 amto 6:16 am · 21 min
WNW → NNE, highest 35° WNWappears west-northwest at 33°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4 · moderate7 satellites
6:18 amto 6:28 am · 10 min
WNW → NNE, highest 23° NWappears west-northwest at 18°, low at the top
≈ mag 5 · faint3 satellites

Thursday 8 Oct

dark 7:08 pm – 6:53 am
4:54 amto 5:13 am · 19 min
NE → NE, highest 37° NNEappears northeast at 30°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 5 · faint7 satellites
5:17 amto 5:25 am · 8 min
NNE → NNE, highest 42° Nappears north-northeast at 38°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faint3 satellites
5:28 amto 5:59 am · 31 min
NNW → NNE, highest 42° NNWappears north-northwest at 42°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faint11 satellites
6:02 amto 6:20 am · 18 min
NW → N, highest 23° NWappears northwest at 23°, low at the top
≈ mag 5 · faint6 satellites

Friday 9 Oct

dark 7:05 pm – 6:55 am
5:02 amto 5:17 am · 15 min
NNE → NNE, highest 30° Nappears north-northeast at 29°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 5 · faint6 satellites
5:28 amto 5:43 am · 15 min
N → NNE, highest 29° NNWappears north at 28°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 5 · faint7 satellites

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 Blackpool

Blackpool is at 53.8°N. Tonight the sky is dark enough from 7:10 pm until 6:51 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); 3 of them should be easy to spot (estimated magnitude 4 or brighter).

The best one is on Thursday 8 Oct at 4:58 am: it appears in the east-northeast, climbs to 71° in the north-northeast 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 Blackpool 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 Blackpool?

Yes — best chance 4:58 am, looking east-northeast. Visible from 4:58 am to 5:28 am, high in the sky (71°) at its highest; easy to see away from bright lights.

When is the next Starlink train over Blackpool?

There is no train pass over Blackpool 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 Blackpool?

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

Nearby cities

All of England →
Fylde 9 kmSouthport 19 kmPreston 23 kmBlackburn 38 kmWigan 41 kmLiverpool 45 km

Before you go out

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