Satellites Tonight

Can I see Starlink tonight in Telford?

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

Visible from 4:58 am to 5:28 am, high in the sky (56°) at its highest; visible from a suburban sky.

Updated Times in local time (BST)52.68°, -2.45°
Tonight's best pass
Appears
4:58 am
east-northeast, 36°
Highest
5:16 am
56° north-northeast
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

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

Pass times, night by night

start · path · brightness

Tonight · Wednesday 7 Oct

dark 7:08 pm – 6:48 am
4:58 amto 5:28 am · 30 min
ENE → NE, highest 56° NNEappears east-northeast at 36°, high at the top
≈ mag 4 · moderate11 satellites
5:33 amto 5:49 am · 16 min
NNW → NNE, highest 48° NWappears north-northwest at 45°, 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 28°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faint7 satellites

Thursday 8 Oct

dark 7:05 pm – 6:50 am
4:54 amto 5:13 am · 19 min
NE → NE, highest 33° NNEappears northeast at 28°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 5 · faint7 satellites
5:17 amto 5:25 am · 8 min
N → NNE, highest 34° Nappears north at 32°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faint3 satellites
5:28 amto 5:59 am · 31 min
NNW → NNE, highest 34° NNWappears north-northwest at 34°, 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 Telford

Telford is at 52.7°N. Tonight the sky is dark enough from 7:08 pm until 6:48 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 6 visible passes (0 in the evening, 6 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 56° in the north-northeast 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 Telford 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 Telford?

Yes — best chance 4:58 am, looking east-northeast. Visible from 4:58 am to 5:28 am, high in the sky (56°) at its highest; visible from a suburban sky.

When is the next Starlink train over Telford?

There is no train pass over Telford 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 Telford?

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 →

Also tonight: the ISS

ISS pass times for Telford →

No visible pass of the International Space Station tonight. The ISS does not pass over Telford 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