Satellites Tonight

Can I see Starlink tonight in Lisburn?

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

Visible from 5:33 am to 5:50 am, almost overhead in the sky (85°) at its highest; easy to see away from bright lights.

Updated Times in local time (BST)54.52°, -6.04°
Tonight's best pass
Appears
5:33 am
northeast, 69°
Highest
5:38 am
85° west
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

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 7:22 pm – 7:03 am
4:58 amto 5:28 am · 30 min
E → NE, highest 57° ENEappears east at 27°, high at the top
≈ mag 4 · moderate11 satellites
5:33 amto 5:50 am · 17 min
NE → NE, highest 85° Wappears northeast at 69°, almost overhead at the top
≈ mag 3.5 · easy6 satellites
5:55 amto 6:16 am · 21 min
W → NNE, highest 52° NWappears west at 49°, high at the top
≈ mag 3.5 · easy7 satellites
6:18 amto 6:28 am · 10 min
W → NNE, highest 31° NWappears west at 25°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faint3 satellites
6:30 amto 7:01 am · 32 min
W → NNE, highest 25° NWappears west at 20°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 5 · faint11 satellites

Thursday 8 Oct

dark 7:19 pm – 7:05 am
5:17 amto 5:25 am · 8 min
NE → NE, highest 45° NNEappears northeast at 37°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faint3 satellites
5:28 amto 5:59 am · 31 min
NNE → NNE, highest 48° NNEappears north-northeast at 48°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4 · moderate11 satellites
6:02 amto 6:20 am · 18 min
NW → NNE, highest 31° NWappears northwest at 31°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faint6 satellites

Friday 9 Oct

dark 7:17 pm – 7:07 am
5:28 amto 5:43 am · 15 min
N → NNE, highest 35° Nappears north at 32°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faint7 satellites
5:47 amto 5:55 am · 8 min
NNW → NNE, highest 30° NNWappears north-northwest at 29°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faint3 satellites
5:58 amto 6:30 am · 32 min
NNW → NNE, highest 26° NNWappears north-northwest at 26°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 5 · faint11 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 Lisburn

Lisburn is at 54.5°N. Tonight the sky is dark enough from 7:22 pm until 7:03 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); 4 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 northeast, climbs to 85° 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 Lisburn 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 Lisburn?

Yes — best chance 5:33 am, looking northeast. Visible from 5:33 am to 5:50 am, almost overhead in the sky (85°) at its highest; easy to see away from bright lights.

When is the next Starlink train over Lisburn?

There is no train pass over Lisburn 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 Lisburn?

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

Nearby cities

All of Northern Ireland →
Belfast 11 kmNewtownabbey 17 kmDerry 97 kmPaisley 178 kmEast Kilbride 182 kmGlasgow 187 km

Before you go out

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