Can I see Starlink tonight in Charlottesville, VA?
No visible passes tonight.
Next chance, faint: Tuesday, Oct 13 at 7:47 pm, looking south-southwest.
The next 8 nights at a glance
3 visible passesPass times, night by night
start · path · brightnessTonight · Wednesday, Oct 7
dark 7:14 pm – 6:49 amThursday, Oct 8 – Monday, Oct 12
no visible passesTuesday, Oct 13
dark 7:06 pm – 6:55 amWednesday, Oct 14
dark 7:05 pm – 6:56 amMagnitude 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 Charlottesville
Charlottesville is at 38.0°N. Tonight the sky is dark enough from 7:14 pm until 6:49 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 3 visible passes (3 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 7:20 pm: it appears in the south-southwest, climbs to 18° in the south and fades in the southeast at about magnitude 4.5.
The passes come from these launches:
- 2026-225, launched 28 September 2026 (train, 26 satellites, now 296–315 km up): 3 passes here
Satellites from launch 2026-219 (20 September 2026) are also low and bright, but they do not pass over Charlottesville while it is dark and they are sunlit in this period.
Questions
Can I see Starlink tonight in Charlottesville?
No visible passes tonight. Next chance, faint: Tuesday, Oct 13 at 7:47 pm, looking south-southwest.
When is the next Starlink train over Charlottesville?
Tuesday, Oct 13 at 7:47 pm: 1 satellites from launch 2026-225, appearing in the south-southwest and reaching 15°.
Which direction should I look for Starlink from Charlottesville?
This week most passes appear in the south-southwest or southwest. Each pass above lists where it appears, how high it climbs and where it fades.