Satellites Tonight

Can I see Starlink tonight in Anniston, AL?

No visible passes tonight.

Next good chance: Monday, Oct 12 at 6:58 pm, looking southwest.

Updated Times in local time (CDT)33.66°, -85.83°
Next pass · Monday, Oct 12
Appears
6:58 pm
southwest, 11°
Highest
7:00 pm
24° south
Fades
7:02 pm
east-southeast, 16°
NESW
≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 1 satellitesLaunch 2026-225 · 28 September 2026

The next 8 nights at a glance

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

Pass times, night by night

start · path · brightness

Tonight · Wednesday, Oct 7

dark 6:45 pm – 6:17 am
No visible passes tonight.

Thursday, Oct 8 – Friday, Oct 9

no visible passes

Saturday, Oct 10

dark 6:41 pm – 6:20 am
7:33 pmto 7:35 pm · 2 min
SSW → S, highest 13° Sappears south-southwest at 10°, low at the top
≈ mag 5 · faintTrain · 2

Sunday, Oct 11

dark 6:40 pm – 6:20 am
6:41 pmto 6:44 pm · 3 min
S → SE, highest 14° SSEappears south at 11°, low at the top
≈ mag 5 · faintTrain · 1
6:57 pmto 7:22 pm · 25 min
SSW → SE, highest 22° SSEappears south-southwest at 11°, low at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 22
7:38 pmto 7:40 pm · 2 min
SW → SSW, highest 18° SSWappears southwest at 11°, low at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 2

Monday, Oct 12

dark 6:39 pm – 6:21 am
6:58 pmto 7:02 pm · 4 min
SW → ESE, highest 24° Sappears southwest at 11°, low at the top
≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 1
7:16 pmto 7:46 pm · 29 min
SW → SE, highest 32° Sappears southwest at 11°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 3.5 · easyTrain · 24

Tuesday, Oct 13

dark 6:37 pm – 6:22 am
6:44 pmto 6:49 pm · 4 min
SW → ESE, highest 27° Sappears southwest at 10°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 1
7:16 pmto 7:19 pm · 3 min
WSW → SSE, highest 36° SSEappears west-southwest at 10°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 3.5 · easyTrain · 1
7:37 pmto 8:05 pm · 28 min
WSW → SSW, highest 35° SSWappears west-southwest at 11°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 24

Wednesday, Oct 14

dark 6:36 pm – 6:23 am
6:36 pmto 6:55 pm · 19 min
SE → ESE, highest 37° Sappears southeast at 26°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 3.5 · easyTrain · 11
6:58 pmto 7:02 pm · 4 min
WSW → ESE, highest 37° Sappears west-southwest at 12°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 3.5 · easyTrain · 1
7:34 pmto 7:36 pm · 2 min
WSW → SSW, highest 38° SSWappears west-southwest at 12°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 3.5 · easyTrain · 1
7:53 pmto 8:13 pm · 21 min
WSW → WSW, highest 20° WSWappears west-southwest at 12°, low at the top
≈ mag 5 · faintTrain · 16

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 Anniston

Anniston is at 33.7°N. Tonight the sky is dark enough from 6:45 pm until 6:17 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 13 visible passes (13 in the evening, 0 before dawn); 8 of them should be easy to spot (estimated magnitude 4 or brighter).

The best one is on Wednesday, Oct 14 at 7:34 pm: it appears in the west-southwest, climbs to 38° in the south-southwest and fades in the south-southwest at about magnitude 3.5.

The passes come from these launches:

Satellites from launch 2026-219 (20 September 2026) are also low and bright, but they do not pass over Anniston while it is dark and they are sunlit in this period.

Questions

Can I see Starlink tonight in Anniston?

No visible passes tonight. Next good chance: Monday, Oct 12 at 6:58 pm, looking southwest.

When is the next Starlink train over Anniston?

Saturday, Oct 10 at 7:33 pm: 2 satellites from launch 2026-225, appearing in the south-southwest and reaching 13°.

Which direction should I look for Starlink from Anniston?

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

Nearby cities

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