Can I see Starlink tonight in Anchorage, AK?

Yes — best chance 6:41 am, looking southwest.

Visible from 6:41 am to 7:14 am, almost overhead in the sky (85°) at its highest; easy to see away from bright lights.

Updated 7 Oct 2026, 22:00 UTCTimes in local time (AKDT)61.22°, -149.90°

Also tonight over Anchorage

Space station (ISS)Not tonightNo visible pass in the next 8 nights Tiangong (China's station)Not tonightNo visible pass in the next 8 nights

Tonight's best pass

Appears

6:41 am

southwest, 23°

Highest

6:49 am

85° north

Fades

7:14 am

northeast, 11°

≈ mag 3.5 · easy11 satellites, same launchLaunch 2026-219 · 20 September 2026

The next 8 nights at a glance

44 visible passes

4 pm6 pm8 pm10 pmmidnight2 am4 am6 am8 am

Tonight

Thu, Oct 8

Fri, Oct 9

Sat, Oct 10

Sun, Oct 11

Mon, Oct 12

Tue, Oct 13

Wed, Oct 14

dark skytraineasy (mag ≤ 3.5)moderate (≤ 4)faint (≤ 5)

Pass times, night by night

start · path · brightness

Tonight · Wednesday, Oct 7

dark 7:55 pm – 7:41 am

5:44 amto 6:02 am · 18 min

SSE → ENE, highest 34° ESEappears south-southeast at 23°, halfway up at the top

≈ mag 5 · faint6 satellites

6:06 amto 6:28 am · 22 min

S → NE, highest 59° ESEappears south at 30°, high at the top

≈ mag 4 · moderate7 satellites

6:30 amto 6:40 am · 11 min

SSW → NE, highest 74° ESEappears south-southwest at 29°, high at the top

≈ mag 3.5 · easy3 satellites

6:41 amto 7:14 am · 33 min

SW → NE, highest 85° Nappears southwest at 23°, almost overhead at the top

≈ mag 3.5 · easy11 satellites

7:16 amto 7:36 am · 20 min

WSW → NE, highest 50° NWappears west-southwest at 14°, high at the top

≈ mag 4 · moderate6 satellites

7:38 amto 7:41 am · 3 min

WSW → NW, highest 35° NWappears west-southwest at 12°, halfway up at the top

≈ mag 4 · moderateSTARLINK-38367

Thursday, Oct 8

dark 7:52 pm – 7:43 am

5:39 amto 6:12 am · 32 min

SE → ENE, highest 56° SEappears southeast at 30°, high at the top

≈ mag 4 · moderate11 satellites

6:14 amto 6:32 am · 18 min

S → NE, highest 82° SSWappears south at 48°, almost overhead at the top

≈ mag 3.5 · easy6 satellites

6:39 amto 6:59 am · 20 min

SW → NE, highest 77° NNWappears southwest at 33°, almost overhead at the top

≈ mag 3.5 · easy7 satellites

7:00 amto 7:11 am · 11 min

WSW → NE, highest 52° NWappears west-southwest at 22°, high at the top

≈ mag 4 · moderate3 satellites

7:11 amto 7:43 am · 32 min

WSW → NE, highest 43° NWappears west-southwest at 16°, halfway up at the top

≈ mag 4 · moderate11 satellites

Friday, Oct 9

dark 7:49 pm – 7:46 am

5:41 amto 5:55 am · 15 min

ESE → NE, highest 56° SEappears east-southeast at 43°, high at the top

≈ mag 4 · moderate7 satellites

5:58 amto 6:07 am · 9 min

SSE → NE, highest 71° ESEappears south-southeast at 62°, high at the top

≈ mag 3.5 · easy3 satellites

6:10 amto 6:37 am · 27 min

S → NE, highest 83° NEappears south at 71°, almost overhead at the top

≈ mag 3.5 · easy10 satellites

6:39 amto 6:43 am · 4 min

WSW → NE, highest 59° WNWappears west-southwest at 32°, high at the top

≈ mag 3.5 · easySTARLINK-38438

6:47 amto 7:03 am · 16 min

W → NE, highest 52° NWappears west at 33°, high at the top

≈ mag 4 · moderate6 satellites

7:13 amto 7:29 am · 16 min

W → NNE, highest 35° NNWappears west at 18°, halfway up at the top

≈ mag 4.5 · faint7 satellites

7:30 amto 7:41 am · 11 min

W → NNE, highest 28° NNWappears west at 13°, halfway up at the top

≈ mag 5 · faint3 satellites

7:42 amto 7:46 am · 4 min

W → NNE, highest 25° NNWappears west at 11°, halfway up at the top

≈ mag 5 · faint2 satellites

Saturday, Oct 10

dark 7:46 pm – 7:48 am

5:26 amto 5:34 am · 8 min

E → NE, highest 37° Eappears east at 37°, halfway up at the top

≈ mag 5 · faint4 satellites

5:38 amto 5:40 am · 2 min

E → NE, highest 43° Eappears east at 43°, halfway up at the top

≈ mag 4.5 · faintSTARLINK-38438

5:45 amto 6:00 am · 15 min

E → NE, highest 73° ENEappears east at 58°, high at the top

≈ mag 3.5 · easy6 satellites

6:11 amto 6:38 am · 27 min

WNW → NE, highest 74° WNWappears west-northwest at 74°, high at the top

≈ mag 3.5 · easy10 satellites

6:40 amto 6:56 am · 16 min

W → NE, highest 45° NWappears west at 35°, halfway up at the top

≈ mag 4 · moderate6 satellites

6:58 amto 7:08 am · 10 min

W → NE, highest 35° NNWappears west at 25°, halfway up at the top

≈ mag 4.5 · faint4 satellites

7:10 amto 7:14 am · 4 min

WNW → NNE, highest 30° NWappears west-northwest at 20°, halfway up at the top

≈ mag 4.5 · faintSTARLINK-38438

7:17 amto 7:33 am · 17 min

W → NNE, highest 28° NWappears west at 16°, halfway up at the top

≈ mag 4.5 · faint6 satellites

Sunday, Oct 11

dark 7:43 pm – 7:51 am

5:10 amto 5:36 am · 27 min

ENE → NE, highest 52° ENEappears east-northeast at 24°, high at the top

≈ mag 4.5 · faint10 satellites

5:39 amto 5:53 am · 14 min

NE → NE, highest 57° NEappears northeast at 41°, high at the top

≈ mag 4 · moderate6 satellites

5:57 amto 6:05 am · 7 min

NNE → NE, highest 64° Nappears north-northeast at 56°, high at the top

≈ mag 3.5 · easy4 satellites

6:09 amto 6:12 am · 3 min

NNW → NE, highest 59° NNWappears north-northwest at 59°, high at the top

≈ mag 4 · moderateSTARLINK-38438

6:15 amto 6:31 am · 16 min

NW → NE, highest 54° NWappears northwest at 54°, high at the top

≈ mag 3.5 · easy6 satellites

6:42 amto 7:26 am · 45 min

WNW → NE, highest 36° NNWappears west-northwest at 32°, halfway up at the top

≈ mag 4.5 · faint16 satellites

Monday, Oct 12

dark 7:40 pm – 7:53 am

5:32 amto 5:34 am · 2 min

NE → NE, highest 42° NEappears northeast at 42°, halfway up at the top

≈ mag 4.5 · faintSTARLINK-38451

5:40 amto 5:54 am · 14 min

NE → NE, highest 47° NNEappears northeast at 35°, halfway up at the top

≈ mag 4.5 · faint5 satellites

5:58 amto 6:23 am · 26 min

N → NE, highest 51° NNWappears north at 48°, high at the top

≈ mag 4 · moderate11 satellites

6:28 amto 6:37 am · 9 min

NW → NE, highest 36° NNWappears northwest at 35°, halfway up at the top

≈ mag 4.5 · faint4 satellites

6:40 amto 7:01 am · 21 min

NW → NNE, highest 31° NWappears northwest at 29°, halfway up at the top

≈ mag 4.5 · faint6 satellites

Tuesday, Oct 13

dark 7:37 pm – 7:56 am

5:39 amto 5:58 am · 18 min

NNE → NE, highest 35° NNEappears north-northeast at 33°, halfway up at the top

≈ mag 5 · faint6 satellites

6:06 amto 6:25 am · 18 min

NNW → NE, highest 38° NNWappears north-northwest at 38°, halfway up at the top

≈ mag 4.5 · faint6 satellites

6:28 amto 6:37 am · 9 min

NNW → NE, highest 30° NNWappears north-northwest at 30°, halfway up at the top

≈ mag 4.5 · faint3 satellites

6:40 amto 7:08 am · 28 min

NW → NNE, highest 27° NNWappears northwest at 25°, halfway up at the top

≈ mag 5 · faint12 satellites

Wednesday, Oct 14

dark 7:34 pm – 7:58 am

5:56 amto 6:03 am · 7 min

N → NE, highest 32° Nappears north at 29°, halfway up at the top

≈ mag 5 · faint5 satellites

6:10 amto 6:28 am · 18 min

NNW → NE, highest 30° NNWappears north-northwest at 30°, halfway up at the top

≈ mag 5 · faint6 satellites

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.

The ISS tonight

ISS pass times for Anchorage →

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

Tiangong, China's space station

0 visible passes in 8 nights

Tiangong's orbit is tilted 41.5° to the equator, so from Anchorage at 61.2°N it stays low near the southern horizon and we find no pass above 10° in a dark sky in the next 8 nights.

Seeing Starlink from Anchorage

Anchorage is at 61.2°N. Tonight the sky is dark enough from 7:55 pm until 7:41 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 44 visible passes (0 in the evening, 44 before dawn); 23 of them should be easy to spot (estimated magnitude 4 or brighter).

The best one is on Thursday, Oct 8 at 6:41 am: it appears in the southwest, climbs to 85° in the north and fades in the northeast at about magnitude 3.5.

The passes come from these launches:

2026-219, launched 20 September 2026 (27 satellites, now 341–366 km up): 44 passes here

Satellites from launch 2026-225 (28 September 2026) are also low and bright, but they do not pass over Anchorage 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 Anchorage?

Yes — best chance 6:41 am, looking southwest. Visible from 6:41 am to 7:14 am, almost overhead in the sky (85°) at its highest; easy to see away from bright lights.

When is the next Starlink train over Anchorage?

There is no train pass over Anchorage 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 Anchorage?

This week most passes appear in the west or west-southwest. Each pass above lists where it appears, how high it climbs and where it fades.

Nearby cities

All of Alaska →

Juneau 923 km Bellingham 2203 km Mount Vernon 2239 km Everett 2283 km Bremerton 2298 km Seattle 2309 km

Before you go out

ISS tonight in Anchorage How to spot Starlink What the Starlink train is Why some nights have nothing