Can I see Starlink tonight in Birmingham, AL?

No visible passes tonight.

Next good chance: Monday, Oct 12 at 7:00 pm, looking southwest.

Updated 7 Oct 2026, 18:36 UTCTimes in local time (CDT)33.52°, -86.80°

Next pass · Monday, Oct 12

Appears

7:00 pm

southwest, 11°

Highest

7:03 pm

24° south-southeast

Fades

7:04 pm

southeast, 17°

≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 1 satellitesLaunch 2026-225 · 28 September 2026

The next 8 nights at a glance

15 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 6:49 pm – 6:21 am

No visible passes tonight.

Thursday, Oct 8 – Friday, Oct 9

no visible passes

Saturday, Oct 10

dark 6:45 pm – 6:23 am

7:34 pmto 7:36 pm · 1 min

SSW → S, highest 15° Sappears south-southwest at 11°, low at the top

≈ mag 5 · faintTrain · 2

Sunday, Oct 11

dark 6:44 pm – 6:24 am

6:43 pmto 6:46 pm · 3 min

S → SE, highest 14° SSEappears south at 11°, low at the top

≈ mag 5 · faintTrain · 1

6:59 pmto 7:17 pm · 18 min

SSW → SE, highest 21° SSEappears south-southwest at 12°, low at the top

≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 22

7:40 pmto 7:42 pm · 2 min

SW → SSW, highest 20° SSWappears southwest at 11°, low at the top

≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 2

Monday, Oct 12

dark 6:43 pm – 6:25 am

6:46 pmto 6:51 pm · 4 min

SW → ESE, highest 21° SSEappears southwest at 10°, low at the top

≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 1

7:00 pmto 7:04 pm · 4 min

SW → SE, highest 24° SSEappears southwest at 11°, low at the top

≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 1

7:14 pmto 7:38 pm · 23 min

SW → SE, highest 33° Sappears southwest at 10°, halfway up at the top

≈ mag 3.5 · easyTrain · 22

7:46 pmto 7:48 pm · 1 min

WSW → SW, highest 23° SWappears west-southwest at 10°, low at the top

≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 2

Tuesday, Oct 13

dark 6:41 pm – 6:26 am

7:03 pmto 7:07 pm · 4 min

WSW → ESE, highest 32° SSEappears west-southwest at 10°, halfway up at the top

≈ mag 3.5 · easyTrain · 1

7:19 pmto 7:23 pm · 3 min

WSW → SE, highest 37° SSEappears west-southwest at 10°, halfway up at the top

≈ mag 3.5 · easyTrain · 1

7:27 pmto 8:00 pm · 32 min

WSW → SSE, highest 39° Sappears west-southwest at 10°, halfway up at the top

≈ mag 3.5 · easyTrain · 24

Wednesday, Oct 14

dark 6:40 pm – 6:26 am

6:39 pmto 6:50 pm · 11 min

ESE → ESE, highest 37° SSEappears east-southeast at 20°, halfway up at the top

≈ mag 3.5 · easyTrain · 7

7:21 pmto 7:24 pm · 3 min

WSW → SSE, highest 42° Sappears west-southwest at 10°, halfway up at the top

≈ mag 3 · easyTrain · 1

7:37 pmto 7:54 pm · 17 min

WSW → SSW, highest 39° SSWappears west-southwest at 12°, halfway up at the top

≈ mag 3.5 · easyTrain · 11

7:59 pmto 8:15 pm · 16 min

WSW → WSW, highest 22° WSWappears west-southwest at 12°, low at the top

≈ mag 5 · faintTrain · 10

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 Birmingham

Birmingham is at 33.5°N. Tonight the sky is dark enough from 6:49 pm until 6:21 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 15 visible passes (15 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 7:21 pm: it appears in the west-southwest, climbs to 42° in the south and fades in the south-southeast at about magnitude 3.

The passes come from these launches:

2026-225, launched 28 September 2026 (train, 26 satellites, now 296–316 km up): 15 passes here

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

Questions

Can I see Starlink tonight in Birmingham?

No visible passes tonight. Next good chance: Monday, Oct 12 at 7:00 pm, looking southwest.

When is the next Starlink train over Birmingham?

Saturday, Oct 10 at 7:34 pm: 2 satellites from launch 2026-225, appearing in the south-southwest and reaching 15°.

Which direction should I look for Starlink from Birmingham?

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 Alabama →

Tuscaloosa 79 km Anniston 91 km Gadsden 92 km Decatur 122 km Huntsville 136 km Montgomery 137 km

Also tonight: the ISS

ISS pass times for Birmingham →

No visible pass of the International Space Station tonight. Next chance: Saturday, Oct 10 at 6:19 am, looking south-southeast. The space station is far brighter than Starlink satellites, so it is often the easier thing to spot.

Before you go out

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