dark skytraineasy (mag ≤ 3.5)moderate (≤ 4)faint (≤ 5)
Pass times, night by night
start · path · brightness
Tonight · Wednesday, Oct 7
dark 7:07 pm – 6:38 am
No visible passes tonight.
Thursday, Oct 8
no visible passes
Friday, Oct 9
dark 7:05 pm – 6:39 am
7:27 pmto 7:29 pm · 2 min
S → SSE, highest 12° SSEappears south at 10°, low at the top
≈ mag 5 · faintTrain · 2
7:36 pmto 7:38 pm · 2 min
SSW → SSE, highest 15° SSEappears south-southwest at 10°, low at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 1
7:44 pmto 7:46 pm · 2 min
SSW → SSE, highest 17° SSEappears south-southwest at 11°, low at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 1
7:56 pmto 8:18 pm · 21 min
SSW → S, highest 19° SSWappears south-southwest at 10°, low at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 21
Saturday, Oct 10
dark 7:04 pm – 6:40 am
7:32 pmto 7:36 pm · 3 min
SSW → SSE, highest 22° SSEappears south-southwest at 11°, low at the top
≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 2
7:49 pmto 7:51 pm · 2 min
SW → S, highest 28° Sappears southwest at 11°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 1
7:59 pmto 8:01 pm · 2 min
SW → SSW, highest 26° SSWappears southwest at 10°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 1
8:13 pmto 8:28 pm · 15 min
SW → SW, highest 22° SWappears southwest at 12°, low at the top
≈ mag 5 · faintTrain · 20
Sunday, Oct 11
dark 7:03 pm – 6:40 am
7:02 pmto 7:17 pm · 15 min
SSW → ESE, highest 28° SSEappears south-southwest at 13°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 21
7:39 pmto 7:42 pm · 3 min
SW → SSE, highest 38° SSEappears southwest at 12°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 3 · easyTrain · 2
8:04 pmto 8:06 pm · 2 min
WSW → SW, highest 35° SWappears west-southwest at 12°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 1
8:16 pmto 8:18 pm · 1 min
WSW → WSW, highest 23° WSWappears west-southwest at 12°, low at the top
≈ mag 5 · faintTrain · 1
Monday, Oct 12
dark 7:01 pm – 6:41 am
7:01 pmto 7:04 pm · 4 min
SSW → E, highest 36° Sappears south-southwest at 24°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 3.5 · easyTrain · 1
7:13 pmto 7:38 pm · 25 min
WSW → E, highest 56° Sappears west-southwest at 10°, high at the top
≈ mag 3 · easyTrain · 22
7:45 pmto 7:48 pm · 3 min
WSW → SSE, highest 61° SSEappears west-southwest at 10°, high at the top
≈ mag 2.5 · brightTrain · 2
Tuesday, Oct 13
dark 7:00 pm – 6:42 am
7:02 pmto 7:07 pm · 5 min
WSW → E, highest 56° Sappears west-southwest at 10°, high at the top
≈ mag 3 · easyTrain · 1
7:18 pmto 7:23 pm · 5 min
WSW → E, highest 66° SSWappears west-southwest at 12°, high at the top
≈ mag 3 · easyTrain · 1
7:26 pmto 8:00 pm · 34 min
WSW → E, highest 85° Sappears west-southwest at 12°, almost overhead at the top
≈ mag 2.5 · brightTrain · 24
Wednesday, Oct 14
dark 6:59 pm – 6:42 am
7:20 pmto 7:24 pm · 4 min
W → E, highest 82° ESEappears west at 12°, almost overhead at the top
≈ mag 2.5 · brightTrain · 1
7:36 pmto 7:54 pm · 18 min
W → E, highest 88° NNEappears west at 10°, almost overhead at the top
≈ mag 2.5 · brightTrain · 11
7:57 pmto 8:21 pm · 24 min
W → W, highest 58° Wappears west at 10°, high at the top
≈ mag 3 · easyTrain · 14
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 Baton Rouge
Baton Rouge is at 30.4°N. Tonight the sky is dark enough from 7:07 pm until 6:38 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 21 visible passes (21 in the evening, 0 before dawn); 15 of them should be easy to spot (estimated magnitude 4 or brighter).
The best one is on Wednesday, Oct 14 at 7:36 pm: it appears in the west, climbs to 88° in the north-northeast and fades in the east at about magnitude 2.5.
The passes come from these launches:
2026-225, launched 28 September 2026 (train, 26 satellites, now 296–316 km up): 21 passes here
Satellites from launch 2026-219 (20 September 2026) are also low and bright, but they do not pass over Baton Rouge while it is dark and they are sunlit in this period.
Questions
Can I see Starlink tonight in Baton Rouge?
No visible passes tonight. Next good chance: Saturday, Oct 10 at 7:32 pm, looking south-southwest.
When is the next Starlink train over Baton Rouge?
Friday, Oct 9 at 7:27 pm: 2 satellites from launch 2026-225, appearing in the south and reaching 12°.
Which direction should I look for Starlink from Baton Rouge?
This week most passes appear in the west-southwest or south-southwest. Each pass above lists where it appears, how high it climbs and where it fades.
No visible pass of the International Space Station tonight. Next chance: Saturday, Oct 10 at 6:19 am, looking southeast. The space station is far brighter than Starlink satellites, so it is often the easier thing to spot.