Satellites Tonight

Can I see Starlink tonight in Glasgow?

Yes — best chance 5:33 am, looking south-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)55.87°, -4.26°
Tonight's best pass
Appears
5:33 am
south-southwest, 80°
Highest
5:35 am
86° northeast
Fades
5:50 am
northeast, 11°
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 7:14 pm – 6:56 am
4:58 amto 5:28 am · 31 min
E → NE, highest 70° SEappears east at 33°, high at the top
≈ mag 3.5 · easy11 satellites
5:33 amto 5:50 am · 17 min
SSW → NE, highest 86° NEappears south-southwest at 80°, almost overhead at the top
≈ mag 3.5 · easy6 satellites
5:55 amto 6:16 am · 22 min
WSW → NNE, highest 53° WNWappears west-southwest at 39°, high at the top
≈ mag 3.5 · easy7 satellites
6:18 amto 6:28 am · 10 min
W → NNE, highest 32° NWappears west at 21°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faint3 satellites
6:30 amto 6:56 am · 27 min
W → NNE, highest 27° NWappears west at 17°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 5 · faint10 satellites

Thursday 8 Oct

dark 7:12 pm – 6:58 am
4:54 amto 5:13 am · 19 min
ENE → NE, highest 46° NEappears east-northeast at 33°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faint7 satellites
5:17 amto 5:25 am · 9 min
NE → NE, highest 65° NNEappears northeast at 52°, high at the top
≈ mag 4 · moderate3 satellites
5:28 amto 6:00 am · 32 min
N → NNE, highest 67° Nappears north at 67°, high at the top
≈ mag 3.5 · easy11 satellites
6:02 amto 6:20 am · 18 min
WNW → NNE, highest 33° NWappears west-northwest at 30°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faint6 satellites

Friday 9 Oct

dark 7:09 pm – 7:00 am
5:02 amto 5:17 am · 15 min
NE → NE, highest 44° NNEappears northeast at 38°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faint6 satellites
5:28 amto 5:44 am · 16 min
N → NNE, highest 44° NNWappears north at 42°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4 · moderate7 satellites
5:47 amto 5:56 am · 9 min
NNW → NNE, highest 33° NNWappears north-northwest at 33°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faint3 satellites
5:58 amto 6:31 am · 32 min
NW → NNE, highest 28° NWappears northwest at 28°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faint11 satellites

Saturday 10 Oct

dark 7:07 pm – 7:02 am
4:57 amto 5:23 am · 26 min
NNE → NE, highest 32° Nappears north-northeast at 23°, 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 31° NNWappears north-northwest at 31°, 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 Glasgow

Glasgow is at 55.9°N. Tonight the sky is dark enough from 7:14 pm until 6:56 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); 6 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 south-southwest, climbs to 86° in the 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 Glasgow 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 Glasgow?

Yes — best chance 5:33 am, looking south-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 Glasgow?

There is no train pass over Glasgow 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 Glasgow?

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

Nearby cities

All of Scotland →
Paisley 12 kmEast Kilbride 12 kmEdinburgh 67 kmDundee 104 kmCarlisle 136 kmNewtownabbey 170 km

Before you go out

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