Satellites Tonight

Can I see Starlink tonight in Rotherham?

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

Visible from 4:58 am to 5:28 am, high in the sky (69°) at its highest; easy to see away from bright lights.

Updated Times in local time (BST)53.43°, -1.36°
Tonight's best pass
Appears
4:58 am
east-northeast, 43°
Highest
5:16 am
69° 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 7:03 pm – 6:44 am
4:46 amto 4:54 am · 8 min
ENE → NE, highest 37° ENEappears east-northeast at 29°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 5 · faint3 satellites
4:58 amto 5:28 am · 30 min
ENE → NE, highest 69° Nappears east-northeast at 43°, high at the top
≈ mag 3.5 · easy11 satellites
5:33 amto 5:50 am · 17 min
NW → NNE, highest 48° NWappears northwest at 48°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4 · moderate6 satellites
5:55 amto 6:16 am · 21 min
WNW → NNE, highest 29° NWappears west-northwest at 27°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faint7 satellites

Thursday 8 Oct

dark 7:01 pm – 6:46 am
4:54 amto 5:13 am · 19 min
NE → NE, highest 38° NNEappears northeast at 32°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faint7 satellites
5:17 amto 5:25 am · 8 min
N → NNE, highest 38° NNWappears north at 37°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faint3 satellites
5:28 amto 5:59 am · 31 min
NNW → NNE, highest 36° NNWappears north-northwest at 36°, 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 Rotherham

Rotherham is at 53.4°N. Tonight the sky is dark enough from 7:03 pm until 6:44 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 69° 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 Rotherham 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 Rotherham?

Yes — best chance 4:58 am, looking east-northeast. Visible from 4:58 am to 5:28 am, high in the sky (69°) at its highest; easy to see away from bright lights.

When is the next Starlink train over Rotherham?

There is no train pass over Rotherham 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 Rotherham?

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 →
Sheffield 9 kmBarnsley 16 kmDoncaster 18 kmChesterfield 20 kmWakefield 30 kmMansfield 35 km

Before you go out

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