Satellites Tonight

Can I see Starlink tonight in Newcastle upon Tyne?

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

Visible from 4:58 am to 5:28 am, almost overhead in the sky (83°) at its highest; easy to see away from bright lights.

Updated Times in local time (BST)54.97°, -1.61°
Tonight's best pass
Appears
4:58 am
east, 45°
Highest
5:22 am
83° west-southwest
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

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

Pass times, night by night

start · path · brightness

Tonight · Wednesday 7 Oct

dark 7:04 pm – 6:45 am
4:46 amto 4:55 am · 8 min
E → NE, highest 38° Eappears east at 31°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 5 · faint3 satellites
4:58 amto 5:28 am · 31 min
E → NE, highest 83° WSWappears east at 45°, almost overhead at the top
≈ mag 3.5 · easy11 satellites
5:33 amto 5:50 am · 17 min
WNW → NNE, highest 62° NWappears west-northwest at 59°, high at the top
≈ mag 3.5 · easy6 satellites
5:55 amto 6:16 am · 21 min
W → NNE, highest 37° NWappears west at 29°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faint7 satellites
6:18 amto 6:28 am · 10 min
W → NNE, highest 24° NWappears west at 16°, low at the top
≈ mag 5 · faint3 satellites

Thursday 8 Oct

dark 7:02 pm – 6:47 am
4:54 amto 5:13 am · 19 min
NE → NE, highest 50° NNEappears northeast at 39°, high at the top
≈ mag 4 · moderate7 satellites
5:17 amto 5:25 am · 9 min
N → NNE, highest 53° NNWappears north at 51°, high at the top
≈ mag 4 · moderate3 satellites
5:28 amto 5:59 am · 32 min
NW → NNE, highest 49° NWappears northwest at 49°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4 · moderate11 satellites
6:02 amto 6:20 am · 18 min
WNW → NNE, highest 24° NWappears west-northwest at 22°, low at the top
≈ mag 5 · faint6 satellites

Friday 9 Oct

dark 6:59 pm – 6:49 am
5:02 amto 5:17 am · 15 min
NNE → NNE, highest 38° Nappears north-northeast at 37°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faint6 satellites
5:28 amto 5:43 am · 16 min
NNW → NNE, highest 33° NNWappears north-northwest at 33°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faint7 satellites
5:47 amto 5:55 am · 9 min
NW → NNE, highest 25° NWappears northwest at 25°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 5 · faint3 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 Newcastle upon Tyne

Newcastle upon Tyne is at 55.0°N. Tonight the sky is dark enough from 7:04 pm until 6:45 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 12 visible passes (0 in the evening, 12 before dawn); 5 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, climbs to 83° in the west-southwest 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 Newcastle upon Tyne 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 Newcastle upon Tyne?

Yes — best chance 4:58 am, looking east. Visible from 4:58 am to 5:28 am, almost overhead in the sky (83°) at its highest; easy to see away from bright lights.

When is the next Starlink train over Newcastle upon Tyne?

There is no train pass over Newcastle upon Tyne 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 Newcastle upon Tyne?

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

Nearby cities

All of England →
Gateshead 1 kmWashington 10 kmSouth Shields 12 kmSunderland 17 kmHartlepool 41 kmStockton-on-Tees 49 km

Before you go out

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