Satellites Tonight

Can I see Starlink tonight in Bowling Green, KY?

No visible passes tonight.

Next chance, faint: Monday, Oct 12 at 7:17 pm, looking south-southwest.

Updated Times in local time (CDT)36.99°, -86.44°
Next pass · Monday, Oct 12
Appears
7:17 pm
south-southwest, 10°
Highest
7:39 pm
17° south
Fades
7:46 pm
south-southeast, 15°
NESW
≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 24 satellitesLaunch 2026-225 · 28 September 2026

The next 8 nights at a glance

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

Pass times, night by night

start · path · brightness

Tonight · Wednesday, Oct 7

dark 6:47 pm – 6:21 am
No visible passes tonight.

Thursday, Oct 8 – Sunday, Oct 11

no visible passes

Monday, Oct 12

dark 6:40 pm – 6:25 am
7:17 pmto 7:46 pm · 28 min
SSW → SSE, highest 17° Sappears south-southwest at 10°, low at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 24

Tuesday, Oct 13

dark 6:38 pm – 6:26 am
6:45 pmto 6:49 pm · 3 min
SSW → SE, highest 15° Sappears south-southwest at 11°, low at the top
≈ mag 5 · faintTrain · 1
7:17 pmto 7:19 pm · 3 min
SW → SSE, highest 18° SSEappears southwest at 11°, low at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 1
7:37 pmto 8:05 pm · 27 min
SW → S, highest 20° Sappears southwest at 11°, low at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 24

Wednesday, Oct 14

dark 6:37 pm – 6:27 am
6:36 pmto 6:55 pm · 19 min
SE → SE, highest 20° Sappears southeast at 12°, low at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 11
6:58 pmto 7:02 pm · 3 min
SW → SE, highest 19° Sappears southwest at 11°, low at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 1
7:34 pmto 7:36 pm · 2 min
SW → S, highest 21° Sappears southwest at 11°, low 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 Bowling Green

Bowling Green is at 37.0°N. Tonight the sky is dark enough from 6:47 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 7 visible passes (7 in the evening, 0 before dawn); 0 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 southwest, climbs to 21° in the south and fades in the south at about magnitude 4.5.

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 Bowling Green while it is dark and they are sunlit in this period.

Questions

Can I see Starlink tonight in Bowling Green?

No visible passes tonight. Next chance, faint: Monday, Oct 12 at 7:17 pm, looking south-southwest.

When is the next Starlink train over Bowling Green?

Monday, Oct 12 at 7:17 pm: 24 satellites from launch 2026-225, appearing in the south-southwest and reaching 17°.

Which direction should I look for Starlink from Bowling Green?

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

Nearby cities

All of Kentucky →
Elizabethtown 94 kmClarksville 96 kmNashville 97 kmOwensboro 105 kmMurfreesboro 127 kmEvansville 147 km

Before you go out

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