Satellites Tonight

Can I see Starlink tonight in Lincoln?

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

Visible from 4:58 am to 5:28 am, high in the sky (66°) at its highest; easy to see away from bright lights.

Updated Times in local time (BST)53.23°, -0.54°
Tonight's best pass
Appears
4:58 am
east-northeast, 47°
Highest
5:16 am
66° north
Fades
5:28 am
northeast, 12°
NESW
≈ mag 3.5 · easy11 satellites, same launchLaunch 2026-219 · 20 September 2026

The next 8 nights at a glance

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

Pass times, night by night

start · path · brightness

Tonight · Wednesday 7 Oct

dark 7:00 pm – 6:41 am
4:46 amto 4:54 am · 8 min
ENE → NE, highest 40° ENEappears east-northeast at 31°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faint3 satellites
4:58 amto 5:28 am · 30 min
ENE → NE, highest 66° Nappears east-northeast at 47°, high at the top
≈ mag 3.5 · easy11 satellites
5:33 amto 5:50 am · 17 min
NW → NNE, highest 43° NWappears northwest at 43°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4 · moderate6 satellites
5:55 amto 6:16 am · 21 min
WNW → NNE, highest 27° NWappears west-northwest at 24°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faint7 satellites

Thursday 8 Oct

dark 6:58 pm – 6:42 am
4:54 amto 5:13 am · 19 min
NNE → NNE, highest 38° NNEappears north-northeast at 33°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faint7 satellites
5:17 amto 5:25 am · 8 min
N → NNE, highest 36° NNWappears north at 35°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faint3 satellites
5:28 amto 5:59 am · 31 min
NNW → NNE, highest 34° NNWappears north-northwest at 34°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faint11 satellites

Friday 9 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 Lincoln

Lincoln is at 53.2°N. Tonight the sky is dark enough from 7:00 pm until 6:41 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 7 visible passes (0 in the evening, 7 before dawn); 2 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 66° in the north 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 Lincoln 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 Lincoln?

Yes — best chance 4:58 am, looking east-northeast. Visible from 4:58 am to 5:28 am, high in the sky (66°) at its highest; easy to see away from bright lights.

When is the next Starlink train over Lincoln?

There is no train pass over Lincoln 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 Lincoln?

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

Nearby cities

All of England →
Scunthorpe 40 kmMansfield 45 kmGrimsby 49 kmNottingham 51 kmDoncaster 51 kmChesterfield 59 km

Before you go out

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