Satellites Tonight

Can I see Starlink tonight in Darlington?

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

Visible from 4:58 am to 5:28 am, almost overhead in the sky (84°) at its highest; easy to see away from bright lights.

Updated Times in local time (BST)54.52°, -1.55°
Tonight's best pass
Appears
4:58 am
east, 45°
Highest
5:16 am
84° east-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

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

Pass times, night by night

start · path · brightness

Tonight · Wednesday 7 Oct

dark 7:04 pm – 6:45 am
4:46 amto 4:54 am · 8 min
ENE → NE, highest 38° Eappears east-northeast at 30°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 5 · faint3 satellites
4:58 amto 5:28 am · 31 min
E → NE, highest 84° ENEappears east at 45°, almost overhead at the top
≈ mag 3.5 · easy11 satellites
5:33 amto 5:50 am · 17 min
WNW → NNE, highest 57° NWappears west-northwest at 57°, high at the top
≈ mag 3.5 · easy6 satellites
5:55 amto 6:16 am · 21 min
W → NNE, highest 34° NWappears west at 29°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4 · moderate7 satellites

Thursday 8 Oct

dark 7:01 pm – 6:47 am
4:54 amto 5:13 am · 19 min
NE → NE, highest 46° NEappears northeast at 37°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faint7 satellites
5:17 amto 5:25 am · 9 min
N → NNE, highest 48° NNWappears north at 46°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4 · moderate3 satellites
5:28 amto 5:59 am · 31 min
NNW → NNE, highest 45° NNWappears north-northwest at 45°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4 · moderate11 satellites
6:02 amto 6:20 am · 18 min
WNW → NNE, highest 23° NWappears west-northwest at 21°, low at the top
≈ mag 5 · faint6 satellites

Friday 9 Oct

dark 6:59 pm – 6:49 am
5:02 amto 5:17 am · 15 min
NNE → NNE, highest 35° NNEappears north-northeast at 34°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faint6 satellites
5:28 amto 5:43 am · 15 min
NNW → NNE, highest 31° NNWappears north-northwest at 31°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faint7 satellites
5:47 amto 5:55 am · 8 min
NW → N, highest 23° NWappears northwest at 23°, low at the top
≈ mag 5 · faint3 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 Darlington

Darlington is at 54.5°N. Tonight the sky is dark enough from 7:04 pm until 6:45 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 11 visible passes (0 in the evening, 11 before dawn); 5 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, climbs to 84° in the east-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 Darlington 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 Darlington?

Yes — best chance 4:58 am, looking east. Visible from 4:58 am to 5:28 am, almost overhead in the sky (84°) at its highest; easy to see away from bright lights.

When is the next Starlink train over Darlington?

There is no train pass over Darlington 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 Darlington?

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

Nearby cities

All of England →
Stockton-on-Tees 16 kmMiddlesbrough 21 kmHartlepool 28 kmWashington 42 kmSunderland 44 kmGateshead 49 km

Before you go out

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