Can I see Starlink tonight in Burlington, NC?

No visible passes tonight.

Next good chance: Wednesday, Oct 14 at 7:19 pm, looking southwest.

Updated 7 Oct 2026, 16:02 UTCTimes in local time (EDT)36.10°, -79.44°

Next pass · Wednesday, Oct 14

Appears

7:19 pm

southwest, 11°

Highest

7:54 pm

26° south

Fades

7:55 pm

east-southeast, 10°

≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 24 satellitesLaunch 2026-225 · 28 September 2026

The next 8 nights at a glance

9 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 7:19 pm – 6:53 am

No visible passes tonight.

Thursday, Oct 8 – Saturday, Oct 10

no visible passes

Sunday, Oct 11

dark 7:13 pm – 6:56 am

7:59 pmto 8:22 pm · 23 min

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

≈ mag 5 · faintTrain · 22

Monday, Oct 12

dark 7:12 pm – 6:57 am

7:34 pmto 7:37 pm · 3 min

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

≈ mag 5 · faintTrain · 1

8:00 pmto 8:02 pm · 2 min

SW → SSE, highest 19° SSEappears southwest at 11°, low at the top

≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 1

8:18 pmto 8:43 pm · 25 min

SW → SSW, highest 19° SSWappears southwest at 11°, low at the top

≈ mag 5 · faintTrain · 20

Tuesday, Oct 13

dark 7:11 pm – 6:58 am

7:10 pmto 7:33 pm · 23 min

S → ESE, highest 20° Sappears south at 16°, low at the top

≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 21

7:46 pmto 7:49 pm · 3 min

SW → SSE, highest 20° SSEappears southwest at 12°, low at the top

≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 1

8:18 pmto 8:19 pm · 1 min

SW → SSW, highest 20° SSWappears southwest at 10°, low at the top

≈ mag 5 · faintTrain · 1

Wednesday, Oct 14

dark 7:09 pm – 6:58 am

7:19 pmto 7:55 pm · 36 min

SW → ESE, highest 26° Sappears southwest at 11°, halfway up at the top

≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 24

8:00 pmto 8:02 pm · 2 min

SW → S, highest 24° Sappears southwest at 12°, low at the top

≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 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 Burlington

Burlington is at 36.1°N. Tonight the sky is dark enough from 7:19 pm until 6:53 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 9 visible passes (9 in the evening, 0 before dawn); 2 of them should be easy to spot (estimated magnitude 4 or brighter).

The best one is on Wednesday, Oct 14 at 7:19 pm: it appears in the southwest, climbs to 26° in the south and fades in the east-southeast at about magnitude 4.

The passes come from these launches:

2026-225, launched 28 September 2026 (train, 26 satellites, now 296–315 km up): 9 passes here

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

Questions

Can I see Starlink tonight in Burlington?

No visible passes tonight. Next good chance: Wednesday, Oct 14 at 7:19 pm, looking southwest.

When is the next Starlink train over Burlington?

Sunday, Oct 11 at 7:59 pm: 22 satellites from launch 2026-225, appearing in the south-southwest and reaching 15°.

Which direction should I look for Starlink from Burlington?

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 North Carolina →

Greensboro 32 km Durham 50 km High Point 53 km Cary 68 km Winston-Salem 72 km Raleigh 80 km

Before you go out

How to spot Starlink What the Starlink train is Why some nights have nothing