dark skytraineasy (mag ≤ 3.5)moderate (≤ 4)faint (≤ 5)
Pass times, night by night
start · path · brightness
Tonight · Wednesday, Oct 7
dark 7:12 pm – 6:43 am
No visible passes tonight.
Thursday, Oct 8
no visible passes
Friday, Oct 9
dark 7:10 pm – 6:45 am
7:34 pmto 7:35 pm · 1 min
SSE → SE, highest 11° SSEappears south-southeast at 11°, low at the top
≈ mag 5 · faintTrain · 1
7:43 pmto 7:45 pm · 2 min
S → SSE, highest 14° SSEappears south at 11°, low at the top
≈ mag 5 · faintTrain · 1
7:56 pmto 8:19 pm · 23 min
SSW → S, highest 16° Sappears south-southwest at 11°, low at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 21
Saturday, Oct 10
dark 7:08 pm – 6:45 am
7:31 pmto 7:35 pm · 3 min
SSW → SE, highest 17° SSEappears south-southwest at 11°, low at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 2
7:43 pmto 7:45 pm · 2 min
SSW → SSE, highest 21° SSEappears south-southwest at 12°, low at the top
≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 1
7:57 pmto 8:00 pm · 2 min
SW → S, highest 25° Sappears southwest at 10°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 1
8:12 pmto 8:33 pm · 21 min
SW → SSW, highest 23° SSWappears southwest at 11°, low at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 20
Sunday, Oct 11
dark 7:07 pm – 6:46 am
7:07 pmto 7:22 pm · 15 min
SE → ESE, highest 24° SSEappears southeast at 19°, low at the top
≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 18
7:36 pmto 7:40 pm · 4 min
SW → SE, highest 28° Sappears southwest at 11°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 3.5 · easyTrain · 2
7:54 pmto 7:56 pm · 2 min
SW → S, highest 35° Sappears southwest at 12°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 3.5 · easyTrain · 1
8:14 pmto 8:16 pm · 1 min
WSW → SW, highest 26° SWappears west-southwest at 11°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 1
Monday, Oct 12
dark 7:06 pm – 6:47 am
7:15 pmto 7:46 pm · 31 min
SW → E, highest 46° Sappears southwest at 12°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 3 · easyTrain · 24
8:06 pmto 8:08 pm · 2 min
WSW → SW, highest 40° SWappears west-southwest at 12°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 3.5 · easyTrain · 1
Tuesday, Oct 13
dark 7:05 pm – 6:47 am
7:14 pmto 7:19 pm · 5 min
WSW → E, highest 49° SSEappears west-southwest at 11°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 3 · easyTrain · 1
7:35 pmto 8:05 pm · 30 min
WSW → ESE, highest 68° SSEappears west-southwest at 11°, high at the top
≈ mag 2.5 · brightTrain · 24
8:18 pmto 8:20 pm · 1 min
W → WSW, highest 27° WSWappears west at 10°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 1
Wednesday, Oct 14
dark 7:04 pm – 6:48 am
7:32 pmto 7:36 pm · 4 min
W → E, highest 70° SSEappears west at 11°, high at the top
≈ mag 2.5 · brightTrain · 1
7:51 pmto 8:26 pm · 35 min
W → SSW, highest 75° SSWappears west at 11°, almost overhead at the top
≈ mag 2.5 · brightTrain · 24
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 Alexandria
Alexandria is at 31.3°N. Tonight the sky is dark enough from 7:12 pm until 6:43 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 18 visible passes (18 in the evening, 0 before dawn); 11 of them should be easy to spot (estimated magnitude 4 or brighter).
The best one is on Wednesday, Oct 14 at 7:51 pm: it appears in the west, climbs to 75° in the south-southwest and fades in the south-southwest at about magnitude 2.5.
The passes come from these launches:
2026-225, launched 28 September 2026 (train, 26 satellites, now 296–315 km up): 18 passes here
Satellites from launch 2026-219 (20 September 2026) are also low and bright, but they do not pass over Alexandria while it is dark and they are sunlit in this period.
Questions
Can I see Starlink tonight in Alexandria?
No visible passes tonight. Next good chance: Saturday, Oct 10 at 7:43 pm, looking south-southwest.
When is the next Starlink train over Alexandria?
Friday, Oct 9 at 7:34 pm: 1 satellites from launch 2026-225, appearing in the south-southeast and reaching 11°.
Which direction should I look for Starlink from Alexandria?
This week most passes appear in the southwest or west-southwest. Each pass above lists where it appears, how high it climbs and where it fades.