dark skytraineasy (mag ≤ 3.5)moderate (≤ 4)faint (≤ 5)
Pass times, night by night
start · path · brightness
Tonight · Wednesday, Oct 7
dark 7:33 pm – 7:04 am
No visible passes tonight.
Thursday, Oct 8
no visible passes
Friday, Oct 9
dark 7:31 pm – 7:05 am
7:55 pmto 8:20 pm · 25 min
S → SE, highest 19° SSEappears south at 11°, low at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 22
Saturday, Oct 10
dark 7:30 pm – 7:06 am
7:30 pmto 7:34 pm · 4 min
SSW → SE, highest 15° SSEappears south-southwest at 10°, low at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 2
7:42 pmto 7:45 pm · 3 min
SSW → ESE, highest 18° SSEappears south-southwest at 10°, low at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 1
7:56 pmto 8:00 pm · 3 min
SW → SE, highest 24° SSEappears southwest at 11°, low at the top
≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 1
8:11 pmto 8:34 pm · 23 min
SW → SSE, highest 32° Sappears southwest at 10°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 3.5 · easyTrain · 22
Sunday, Oct 11
dark 7:29 pm – 7:07 am
7:35 pmto 7:40 pm · 5 min
SW → ESE, highest 26° SSEappears southwest at 10°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 3.5 · easyTrain · 2
7:52 pmto 7:56 pm · 3 min
SW → ESE, highest 34° SSEappears southwest at 11°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 3.5 · easyTrain · 1
8:13 pmto 8:16 pm · 3 min
WSW → SSE, highest 47° SSEappears west-southwest at 10°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 3 · easyTrain · 1
8:29 pmto 8:53 pm · 23 min
WSW → SW, highest 42° SWappears west-southwest at 11°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 3.5 · easyTrain · 22
Monday, Oct 12
dark 7:28 pm – 7:07 am
7:27 pmto 7:46 pm · 19 min
ESE → E, highest 45° Sappears east-southeast at 23°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 3 · easyTrain · 18
8:04 pmto 8:08 pm · 3 min
WSW → ESE, highest 61° Sappears west-southwest at 12°, high at the top
≈ mag 2.5 · brightTrain · 1
8:31 pmto 8:33 pm · 2 min
WSW → WSW, highest 42° WSWappears west-southwest at 10°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 3.5 · easyTrain · 1
Tuesday, Oct 13
dark 7:27 pm – 7:08 am
7:34 pmto 8:05 pm · 31 min
WSW → E, highest 77° SEappears west-southwest at 11°, almost overhead at the top
≈ mag 2.5 · brightTrain · 24
8:17 pmto 8:20 pm · 3 min
W → WSW, highest 84° WSWappears west at 12°, almost overhead at the top
≈ mag 2.5 · brightTrain · 1
Wednesday, Oct 14
dark 7:26 pm – 7:09 am
7:31 pmto 7:36 pm · 5 min
W → E, highest 81° Sappears west at 11°, almost overhead at the top
≈ mag 2.5 · brightTrain · 1
7:50 pmto 8:26 pm · 36 min
W → E, highest 87° WNWappears west at 10°, almost overhead at the top
≈ mag 2 · brightTrain · 24
8:31 pmto 8:33 pm · 2 min
W → W, highest 30° Wappears west at 12°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 1
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 Austin
Austin is at 30.3°N. Tonight the sky is dark enough from 7:33 pm until 7:04 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 17 visible passes (17 in the evening, 0 before dawn); 13 of them should be easy to spot (estimated magnitude 4 or brighter).
The best one is on Wednesday, Oct 14 at 7:50 pm: it appears in the west, climbs to 87° in the west-northwest and fades in the east at about magnitude 2.
The passes come from these launches:
2026-225, launched 28 September 2026 (train, 26 satellites, now 296–315 km up): 17 passes here
Satellites from launch 2026-219 (20 September 2026) are also low and bright, but they do not pass over Austin while it is dark and they are sunlit in this period.
Questions
Can I see Starlink tonight in Austin?
No visible passes tonight. Next good chance: Saturday, Oct 10 at 7:56 pm, looking southwest.
When is the next Starlink train over Austin?
Friday, Oct 9 at 7:55 pm: 22 satellites from launch 2026-225, appearing in the south and reaching 19°.
Which direction should I look for Starlink from Austin?
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.