Satellites Tonight

Can I see Starlink tonight in Stockton-on-Tees?

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

Visible from 4:58 am to 5:28 am, almost overhead in the sky (87°) at its highest; easy to see away from bright lights.

Updated Times in local time (BST)54.57°, -1.32°
Tonight's best pass
Appears
4:58 am
east, 47°
Highest
5:16 am
87° east-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

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 7:03 pm – 6:44 am
4:46 amto 4:55 am · 8 min
E → NE, highest 39° Eappears east at 31°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faint3 satellites
4:58 amto 5:28 am · 31 min
E → NE, highest 87° ENEappears east at 47°, almost overhead at the top
≈ mag 3.5 · easy11 satellites
5:33 amto 5:50 am · 17 min
WNW → NNE, highest 56° NWappears west-northwest at 55°, high at the top
≈ mag 3.5 · easy6 satellites
5:55 amto 6:16 am · 21 min
W → NNE, highest 34° NWappears west at 28°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faint7 satellites

Thursday 8 Oct

dark 7:00 pm – 6:46 am
4:54 amto 5:13 am · 19 min
NE → NE, highest 50° NNEappears northeast at 40°, high at the top
≈ mag 4 · moderate7 satellites
5:17 amto 5:25 am · 9 min
N → NNE, highest 49° NNWappears north at 48°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4 · moderate3 satellites
5:28 amto 5:59 am · 32 min
NW → NNE, highest 45° NWappears northwest at 45°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4 · moderate11 satellites
6:02 amto 6:20 am · 18 min
WNW → N, highest 23° NWappears west-northwest at 20°, low at the top
≈ mag 5 · faint6 satellites

Friday 9 Oct

dark 6:58 pm – 6:48 am
5:03 amto 5:17 am · 15 min
NNE → NNE, highest 37° Nappears north-northeast at 33°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faint6 satellites
5:28 amto 5:44 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 23° NWappears northwest at 23°, low 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 Stockton-on-Tees

Stockton-on-Tees is at 54.6°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 11 visible passes (0 in the evening, 11 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 87° in the east-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 Stockton-on-Tees 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 Stockton-on-Tees?

Yes — best chance 4:58 am, looking east. Visible from 4:58 am to 5:28 am, almost overhead in the sky (87°) at its highest; easy to see away from bright lights.

When is the next Starlink train over Stockton-on-Tees?

There is no train pass over Stockton-on-Tees 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 Stockton-on-Tees?

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 →
Middlesbrough 5 kmHartlepool 15 kmDarlington 16 kmSunderland 38 kmWashington 39 kmGateshead 47 km

Also tonight: the ISS

ISS pass times for Stockton-on-Tees →

No visible pass of the International Space Station tonight. The ISS does not pass over Stockton-on-Tees in a dark sky in the next 8 nights. The space station is far brighter than Starlink satellites, so it is often the easier thing to spot.

Before you go out

ISS tonight in Stockton-on-TeesHow to spot StarlinkWhat the Starlink train isWhy some nights have nothing