Satellites Tonight

Can I see Starlink tonight in Edinburgh?

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

Visible from 5:33 am to 5:50 am, almost overhead in the sky (83°) at its highest; easy to see away from bright lights.

Updated Times in local time (BST)55.95°, -3.20°
Tonight's best pass
Appears
5:33 am
west-southwest, 72°
Highest
5:35 am
83° west-northwest
Fades
5:50 am
northeast, 12°
NESW
≈ mag 3.5 · easy6 satellites, same launchLaunch 2026-219 · 20 September 2026

The next 8 nights at a glance

16 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 – 6:52 am
4:58 amto 5:28 am · 31 min
ESE → NE, highest 75° SSEappears east-southeast at 36°, almost overhead at the top
≈ mag 3.5 · easy11 satellites
5:33 amto 5:50 am · 17 min
WSW → NE, highest 83° WNWappears west-southwest at 72°, almost overhead at the top
≈ mag 3.5 · easy6 satellites
5:55 amto 6:16 am · 22 min
W → NNE, highest 48° NWappears west at 34°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4 · moderate7 satellites
6:18 amto 6:28 am · 11 min
W → NNE, highest 30° NWappears west at 19°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faint3 satellites
6:30 amto 6:52 am · 22 min
W → NNE, highest 25° NWappears west at 16°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 5 · faint9 satellites

Thursday 8 Oct

dark 7:08 pm – 6:54 am
4:54 amto 5:13 am · 19 min
ENE → NE, highest 52° NEappears east-northeast at 37°, high at the top
≈ mag 4 · moderate7 satellites
5:17 amto 5:25 am · 9 min
NE → NE, highest 69° Nappears northeast at 58°, high at the top
≈ mag 3.5 · easy3 satellites
5:28 amto 6:00 am · 32 min
NNW → NNE, highest 66° NNWappears north-northwest at 66°, high at the top
≈ mag 3.5 · easy11 satellites
6:02 amto 6:21 am · 18 min
WNW → NNE, highest 31° NWappears west-northwest at 27°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faint6 satellites

Friday 9 Oct

dark 7:05 pm – 6:56 am
5:02 amto 5:18 am · 15 min
NE → NE, highest 46° Nappears northeast at 41°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4 · moderate6 satellites
5:28 amto 5:44 am · 16 min
NNW → NNE, highest 43° NNWappears north-northwest at 42°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4 · moderate7 satellites
5:47 amto 5:56 am · 9 min
NW → NNE, highest 32° NWappears northwest at 32°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faint3 satellites
5:58 amto 6:31 am · 32 min
NW → NNE, highest 26° NWappears northwest at 26°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 5 · faint11 satellites

Saturday 10 Oct

dark 7:03 pm – 6:58 am
4:57 amto 5:23 am · 26 min
NNE → NNE, highest 33° Nappears north-northeast at 24°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 5 · faint10 satellites
5:27 amto 5:29 am · 2 min
N → NNE, highest 31° Nappears north at 31°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 5 · faintSTARLINK-38438
5:34 amto 5:48 am · 14 min
NNW → NNE, highest 30° NNWappears north-northwest at 30°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faint6 satellites

Sunday 11 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 Edinburgh

Edinburgh is at 56.0°N. Tonight the sky is dark enough from 7:10 pm until 6:52 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 16 visible passes (0 in the evening, 16 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 west-southwest, climbs to 83° in the west-northwest 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 Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh?

Yes — best chance 5:33 am, looking west-southwest. Visible from 5:33 am to 5:50 am, almost overhead in the sky (83°) at its highest; easy to see away from bright lights.

When is the next Starlink train over Edinburgh?

There is no train pass over Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh?

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.

Nearby cities

All of Scotland →
Dundee 59 kmEast Kilbride 65 kmGlasgow 67 kmPaisley 78 kmCarlisle 119 kmNewcastle upon Tyne 148 km

Before you go out

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