Satellites Tonight

Can I see Starlink tonight in Northampton?

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

Visible from 4:58 am to 5:28 am, high in the sky (53°) at its highest; visible from a suburban sky.

Updated Times in local time (BST)52.25°, -0.88°
Tonight's best pass
Appears
4:58 am
northeast, 39°
Highest
5:16 am
53° north
Fades
5:28 am
northeast, 10°
NESW
≈ mag 4 · moderate11 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 7:02 pm – 6:42 am
4:46 amto 4:54 am · 8 min
NE → NE, highest 34° NEappears northeast at 28°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 5 · faint3 satellites
4:58 amto 5:28 am · 30 min
NE → NE, highest 53° Nappears northeast at 39°, high at the top
≈ mag 4 · moderate11 satellites
5:33 amto 5:49 am · 16 min
NW → NNE, highest 39° NWappears northwest at 37°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4 · moderate6 satellites
5:55 amto 6:15 am · 21 min
WNW → N, highest 24° NWappears west-northwest at 24°, low at the top
≈ mag 5 · faint7 satellites

Thursday 8 Oct

dark 6:59 pm – 6:44 am
4:54 amto 5:13 am · 19 min
NNE → NNE, highest 32° NNEappears north-northeast at 27°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 5 · faint7 satellites
5:17 amto 5:25 am · 8 min
N → NNE, highest 30° NNWappears north at 29°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 5 · faint3 satellites
5:28 amto 5:59 am · 31 min
NNW → NNE, highest 29° NNWappears north-northwest at 29°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 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 Northampton

Northampton is at 52.2°N. Tonight the sky is dark enough from 7:02 pm until 6:42 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 northeast, climbs to 53° in the north and fades in the northeast at about magnitude 4.

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 Northampton 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 Northampton?

Yes — best chance 4:58 am, looking northeast. Visible from 4:58 am to 5:28 am, high in the sky (53°) at its highest; visible from a suburban sky.

When is the next Starlink train over Northampton?

There is no train pass over Northampton 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 Northampton?

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

Nearby cities

All of England →
Milton Keynes 25 kmRugby 29 kmCorby 30 kmBedford 31 kmCoventry 46 kmLeicester 46 km

Before you go out

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