Satellites Tonight

Can I see Starlink tonight in Dundee?

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

Visible from 5:33 am to 5:50 am, almost overhead in the sky (86°) at its highest; easy to see away from bright lights.

Updated Times in local time (BST)56.47°, -2.97°
Tonight's best pass
Appears
5:33 am
southwest, 65°
Highest
5:34 am
86° west
Fades
5:50 am
northeast, 10°
NESW
≈ mag 3.5 · easy6 satellites, same launchLaunch 2026-219 · 20 September 2026

The next 8 nights at a glance

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

Pass times, night by night

start · path · brightness

Tonight · Wednesday 7 Oct

dark 7:09 pm – 6:51 am
4:58 amto 5:28 am · 31 min
ESE → NE, highest 74° ESEappears east-southeast at 36°, high at the top
≈ mag 3.5 · easy11 satellites
5:33 amto 5:50 am · 17 min
SW → NE, highest 86° Wappears southwest at 65°, almost overhead at the top
≈ mag 3.5 · easy6 satellites
5:55 amto 6:17 am · 22 min
WSW → NNE, highest 51° NWappears west-southwest at 33°, high at the top
≈ mag 3.5 · easy7 satellites
6:18 amto 6:29 am · 11 min
W → NNE, highest 32° NWappears west at 18°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faint3 satellites
6:30 amto 6:51 am · 22 min
W → NNE, highest 26° NWappears west at 15°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faint9 satellites

Thursday 8 Oct

dark 7:07 pm – 6:53 am
4:54 amto 5:13 am · 20 min
ENE → NE, highest 57° ENEappears east-northeast at 39°, high at the top
≈ mag 4 · moderate7 satellites
5:17 amto 5:25 am · 9 min
NE → NE, highest 77° Nappears northeast at 65°, almost overhead at the top
≈ mag 3.5 · easy3 satellites
5:28 amto 6:00 am · 32 min
NW → NNE, highest 72° NWappears northwest at 72°, high at the top
≈ mag 3.5 · easy11 satellites
6:02 amto 6:21 am · 19 min
WNW → NNE, highest 33° NWappears west-northwest at 27°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faint6 satellites

Friday 9 Oct

dark 7:04 pm – 6:55 am
4:26 amto 4:52 am · 26 min
ENE → NE, highest 37° ENEappears east-northeast at 20°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 5 · faint10 satellites
5:02 amto 5:18 am · 15 min
NE → NE, highest 52° Nappears northeast at 46°, high at the top
≈ mag 4 · moderate6 satellites
5:28 amto 5:44 am · 16 min
NNW → NNE, highest 47° NNWappears north-northwest at 46°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4 · moderate7 satellites
5:47 amto 5:56 am · 9 min
NW → NNE, highest 34° NWappears northwest at 34°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faint3 satellites
5:58 amto 6:31 am · 33 min
NW → NNE, highest 28° NWappears northwest at 27°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faint11 satellites

Saturday 10 Oct

dark 7:01 pm – 6:57 am
4:57 amto 5:23 am · 26 min
NNE → NE, highest 36° Nappears north-northeast at 27°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faint10 satellites
5:27 amto 5:29 am · 2 min
NNW → NNE, highest 34° NNWappears north-northwest at 34°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faintSTARLINK-38438
5:34 amto 5:48 am · 14 min
NNW → NNE, highest 32° NNWappears north-northwest at 32°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faint6 satellites

Sunday 11 Oct

dark 6:59 pm – 6:59 am
5:15 amto 5:23 am · 8 min
N → NNE, highest 31° NNWappears north at 27°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 5 · faint4 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 Dundee

Dundee is at 56.5°N. Tonight the sky is dark enough from 7:09 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 18 visible passes (0 in the evening, 18 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 86° in the west 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 Dundee 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 Dundee?

Yes — best chance 5:33 am, looking southwest. Visible from 5:33 am to 5:50 am, almost overhead in the sky (86°) at its highest; easy to see away from bright lights.

When is the next Starlink train over Dundee?

There is no train pass over Dundee 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 Dundee?

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

Nearby cities

All of Scotland →
Edinburgh 59 kmAberdeen 92 kmGlasgow 104 kmEast Kilbride 108 kmPaisley 115 kmCarlisle 175 km

Before you go out

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