Satellites Tonight

Can I see Starlink tonight in Southport?

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)53.65°, -3.01°
Tonight's best pass
Appears
4:58 am
east-northeast, 37°
Highest
5:22 am
69° north-northeast
Fades
5:28 am
northeast, 11°
NESW
≈ mag 3.5 · easy11 satellites, same launchLaunch 2026-219 · 20 September 2026

The next 8 nights at a glance

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

Pass times, night by night

start · path · brightness

Tonight · Wednesday 7 Oct

dark 7:10 pm – 6:51 am
4:58 amto 5:28 am · 30 min
ENE → NE, highest 69° NNEappears east-northeast at 37°, high at the top
≈ mag 3.5 · easy11 satellites
5:33 amto 5:50 am · 17 min
NNW → NNE, highest 59° NWappears north-northwest at 57°, high at the top
≈ mag 3.5 · easy6 satellites
5:55 amto 6:16 am · 21 min
WNW → NNE, highest 35° NWappears west-northwest at 32°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4 · moderate7 satellites

Thursday 8 Oct

dark 7:07 pm – 6:53 am
4:54 amto 5:13 am · 19 min
NE → NE, highest 36° NNEappears northeast at 29°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 5 · faint7 satellites
5:17 amto 5:25 am · 8 min
NNE → NNE, highest 41° Nappears north-northeast at 37°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faint3 satellites
5:28 amto 5:59 am · 31 min
NNW → NNE, highest 40° NNWappears north-northwest at 40°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faint11 satellites
6:02 amto 6:20 am · 18 min
NW → N, highest 23° NWappears northwest at 22°, low at the top
≈ mag 5 · faint6 satellites

Friday 9 Oct

dark 7:05 pm – 6:54 am
5:28 amto 5:43 am · 15 min
N → NNE, highest 28° NNWappears north at 27°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 5 · faint7 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 Southport

Southport is at 53.6°N. Tonight the sky is dark enough from 7:10 pm until 6:51 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 8 visible passes (0 in the evening, 8 before dawn); 3 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-northeast 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 Southport 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 Southport?

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 Southport?

There is no train pass over Southport 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 Southport?

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

Nearby cities

All of England →
Blackpool 19 kmFylde 22 kmPreston 24 kmLiverpool 26 kmWigan 27 kmBirkenhead 28 km

Before you go out

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