Satellites Tonight

Can I see Starlink tonight in Atlanta, GA?

No visible passes tonight.

Next good chance: Monday, Oct 12 at 8:01 pm, looking southwest.

Updated Times in local time (EDT)33.75°, -84.39°
Next pass · Monday, Oct 12
Appears
8:01 pm
southwest, 12°
Highest
8:03 pm
26° south-southeast
Fades
8:04 pm
southeast, 22°
NESW
≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 1 satellitesLaunch 2026-225 · 28 September 2026

The next 8 nights at a glance

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

Pass times, night by night

start · path · brightness

Tonight · Wednesday, Oct 7

dark 7:39 pm – 7:12 am
No visible passes tonight.

Thursday, Oct 8 – Saturday, Oct 10

no visible passes

Sunday, Oct 11

dark 7:34 pm – 7:15 am
7:33 pmto 7:34 pm · 1 min
SE → SE, highest 12° SEappears southeast at 12°, low at the top
≈ mag 5 · faintTrain · 1
7:43 pmto 7:46 pm · 4 min
SSW → SE, highest 15° SSEappears south-southwest at 11°, low at the top
≈ mag 5 · faintTrain · 1
7:59 pmto 8:17 pm · 18 min
SSW → SE, highest 22° SSEappears south-southwest at 11°, low at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 22
8:40 pmto 8:42 pm · 1 min
SW → SW, highest 17° SSWappears southwest at 10°, low at the top
≈ mag 5 · faintTrain · 2

Monday, Oct 12

dark 7:33 pm – 7:15 am
7:47 pmto 7:51 pm · 4 min
SW → ESE, highest 22° SSEappears southwest at 11°, low at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 1
8:01 pmto 8:04 pm · 3 min
SW → SE, highest 26° SSEappears southwest at 12°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 1
8:15 pmto 8:38 pm · 23 min
SW → SSE, highest 31° Sappears southwest at 11°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 3.5 · easyTrain · 22
8:47 pmto 8:48 pm · 1 min
WSW → SW, highest 17° SWappears west-southwest at 11°, low at the top
≈ mag 5 · faintTrain · 2

Tuesday, Oct 13

dark 7:32 pm – 7:16 am
8:04 pmto 8:07 pm · 3 min
WSW → SE, highest 33° Sappears west-southwest at 11°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 3.5 · easyTrain · 1
8:20 pmto 8:23 pm · 3 min
WSW → SSE, highest 37° Sappears west-southwest at 11°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 3.5 · easyTrain · 1
8:28 pmto 9:00 pm · 32 min
WSW → SSW, highest 35° SSWappears west-southwest at 11°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 3.5 · easyTrain · 24

Wednesday, Oct 14

dark 7:30 pm – 7:17 am
7:30 pmto 7:50 pm · 20 min
SSE → ESE, highest 37° Sappears south-southeast at 31°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 3.5 · easyTrain · 10
8:21 pmto 8:24 pm · 3 min
WSW → S, highest 40° Sappears west-southwest at 11°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 3.5 · easyTrain · 1
8:37 pmto 8:54 pm · 16 min
WSW → SW, highest 28° SWappears west-southwest at 10°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 11

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 Atlanta

Atlanta is at 33.7°N. Tonight the sky is dark enough from 7:39 pm until 7:12 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 14 visible passes (14 in the evening, 0 before dawn); 7 of them should be easy to spot (estimated magnitude 4 or brighter).

The best one is on Wednesday, Oct 14 at 8:21 pm: it appears in the west-southwest, climbs to 40° in the south and fades in the south 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 Atlanta while it is dark and they are sunlit in this period.

Questions

Can I see Starlink tonight in Atlanta?

No visible passes tonight. Next good chance: Monday, Oct 12 at 8:01 pm, looking southwest.

When is the next Starlink train over Atlanta?

Sunday, Oct 11 at 7:33 pm: 1 satellites from launch 2026-225, appearing in the southeast and reaching 12°.

Which direction should I look for Starlink from Atlanta?

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

All of Georgia →

Also tonight: the ISS

ISS pass times for Atlanta →

No visible pass of the International Space Station tonight. Next chance: Tuesday, Oct 13 at 6:33 am, looking south-southwest. The space station is far brighter than Starlink satellites, so it is often the easier thing to spot.

Before you go out