Can I see Starlink tonight in Columbia, SC?

No visible passes tonight.

Next good chance: Monday, Oct 12 at 7:47 pm, looking southwest.

Updated 7 Oct 2026, 19:18 UTCTimes in local time (EDT)34.00°, -81.03°

Next pass · Monday, Oct 12

Appears

7:47 pm

southwest, 11°

Highest

7:50 pm

24° south

Fades

7:51 pm

southeast, 20°

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

The next 8 nights at a glance

14 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 7:26 pm – 6:58 am

No visible passes tonight.

Thursday, Oct 8 – Friday, Oct 9

no visible passes

Saturday, Oct 10

dark 7:22 pm – 7:01 am

7:42 pmto 8:00 pm · 18 min

S → SE, highest 13° SSEappears south at 10°, low at the top

≈ mag 5 · faintTrain · 22

Sunday, Oct 11

dark 7:21 pm – 7:01 am

7:32 pmto 7:35 pm · 3 min

SSW → SE, highest 14° SSEappears south-southwest at 11°, low at the top

≈ mag 5 · faintTrain · 1

7:43 pmto 7:47 pm · 3 min

SSW → SE, highest 17° SSEappears south-southwest at 10°, low at the top

≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 1

8:00 pmto 8:17 pm · 17 min

SSW → SSE, highest 23° Sappears south-southwest at 12°, low at the top

≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 22

Monday, Oct 12

dark 7:19 pm – 7:02 am

7:47 pmto 7:51 pm · 3 min

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

≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 1

8:02 pmto 8:04 pm · 3 min

SW → SSE, highest 28° SSEappears southwest at 12°, halfway up at the top

≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 1

8:16 pmto 8:38 pm · 22 min

SW → SSW, highest 29° SSWappears southwest at 11°, halfway up at the top

≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 22

Tuesday, Oct 13

dark 7:18 pm – 7:03 am

7:17 pmto 7:28 pm · 11 min

S → ESE, highest 27° Sappears south at 23°, halfway up at the top

≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 10

8:04 pmto 8:07 pm · 3 min

WSW → SSE, highest 34° Sappears west-southwest at 11°, halfway up at the top

≈ mag 3.5 · easyTrain · 1

8:20 pmto 8:23 pm · 2 min

WSW → SSW, highest 33° SSWappears west-southwest at 11°, halfway up at the top

≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 1

8:28 pmto 8:56 pm · 28 min

WSW → SW, highest 24° SWappears west-southwest at 11°, low at the top

≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 18

Wednesday, Oct 14

dark 7:17 pm – 7:04 am

7:16 pmto 7:23 pm · 6 min

SE → ESE, highest 31° SSEappears southeast at 24°, halfway up at the top

≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 4

7:24 pmto 7:50 pm · 26 min

WSW → ESE, highest 38° Sappears west-southwest at 10°, halfway up at the top

≈ mag 3.5 · easyTrain · 14

8:22 pmto 8:24 pm · 2 min

WSW → SW, highest 28° SWappears west-southwest at 10°, halfway up 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 Columbia

Columbia is at 34.0°N. Tonight the sky is dark enough from 7:26 pm until 6:58 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 14 visible passes (14 in the evening, 0 before dawn); 9 of them should be easy to spot (estimated magnitude 4 or brighter).

The best one is on Wednesday, Oct 14 at 7:24 pm: it appears in the west-southwest, climbs to 38° in the south and fades in the east-southeast at about magnitude 3.5.

The passes come from these launches:

2026-225, launched 28 September 2026 (train, 26 satellites, now 296–316 km up): 14 passes here

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

Questions

Can I see Starlink tonight in Columbia?

No visible passes tonight. Next good chance: Monday, Oct 12 at 7:47 pm, looking southwest.

When is the next Starlink train over Columbia?

Saturday, Oct 10 at 7:42 pm: 22 satellites from launch 2026-225, appearing in the south and reaching 13°.

Which direction should I look for Starlink from Columbia?

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.

Nearby cities

All of South Carolina →

Sumter 65 km Augusta 105 km Florence 119 km Spartanburg 134 km Charlotte 137 km Greenville 157 km

Also tonight: the ISS

ISS pass times for Columbia →

No visible pass of the International Space Station tonight. Next chance: Sunday, Oct 11 at 6:33 am, looking 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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