Can I see Starlink tonight in Columbus, GA?

No visible passes tonight.

Next good chance: Sunday, Oct 11 at 7:58 pm, looking southwest.

Updated 7 Oct 2026, 18:36 UTCTimes in local time (EDT)32.46°, -84.99°

Next pass · Sunday, Oct 11

Appears

7:58 pm

southwest, 10°

Highest

8:16 pm

27° south-southeast

Fades

8:17 pm

southeast, 18°

≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 22 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 7:42 pm – 7:14 am

No visible passes tonight.

Thursday, Oct 8 – Friday, Oct 9

no visible passes

Saturday, Oct 10

dark 7:38 pm – 7:16 am

7:41 pmto 8:00 pm · 19 min

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

≈ mag 5 · faintTrain · 22

8:34 pmto 8:36 pm · 2 min

SSW → SSW, highest 17° SSWappears south-southwest at 11°, low at the top

≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 2

Sunday, Oct 11

dark 7:37 pm – 7:17 am

7:42 pmto 7:47 pm · 4 min

SSW → ESE, highest 18° SSEappears south-southwest at 10°, low at the top

≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 1

7:58 pmto 8:17 pm · 18 min

SW → SE, highest 27° SSEappears southwest at 10°, halfway up at the top

≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 22

8:40 pmto 8:42 pm · 1 min

SW → SW, highest 22° SWappears southwest at 10°, low at the top

≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 2

Monday, Oct 12

dark 7:36 pm – 7:17 am

7:46 pmto 7:51 pm · 4 min

SW → ESE, highest 27° SSEappears southwest at 12°, halfway up at the top

≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 1

8:01 pmto 8:04 pm · 4 min

SW → SE, highest 32° SSEappears southwest at 12°, halfway up at the top

≈ mag 3.5 · easyTrain · 1

8:15 pmto 8:38 pm · 23 min

SW → SSE, highest 41° Sappears southwest at 11°, halfway up at the top

≈ mag 3.5 · easyTrain · 22

8:46 pmto 8:48 pm · 1 min

WSW → WSW, highest 22° WSWappears west-southwest at 11°, low at the top

≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 2

Tuesday, Oct 13

dark 7:35 pm – 7:18 am

8:03 pmto 8:07 pm · 4 min

WSW → ESE, highest 44° SSEappears west-southwest at 11°, halfway up at the top

≈ mag 3 · easyTrain · 1

8:19 pmto 8:23 pm · 3 min

WSW → SE, highest 49° Sappears west-southwest at 11°, halfway up at the top

≈ mag 3 · easyTrain · 1

8:27 pmto 9:00 pm · 32 min

WSW → SSW, highest 48° SSWappears west-southwest at 11°, halfway up at the top

≈ mag 3 · easyTrain · 24

Wednesday, Oct 14

dark 7:33 pm – 7:19 am

7:33 pmto 7:50 pm · 17 min

S → E, highest 49° SSEappears south at 41°, halfway up at the top

≈ mag 3 · easyTrain · 9

8:21 pmto 8:24 pm · 3 min

WSW → S, highest 56° Sappears west-southwest at 10°, high at the top

≈ mag 3 · easyTrain · 1

8:37 pmto 8:54 pm · 16 min

W → WSW, highest 36° WSWappears west at 12°, halfway up at the top

≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 11

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 Columbus

Columbus is at 32.5°N. Tonight the sky is dark enough from 7:42 pm until 7:14 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); 10 of them should be easy to spot (estimated magnitude 4 or brighter).

The best one is on Wednesday, Oct 14 at 8:21 pm: it appears in the west-southwest, climbs to 56° in the south and fades in the south 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 Columbus while it is dark and they are sunlit in this period.

Questions

Can I see Starlink tonight in Columbus?

No visible passes tonight. Next good chance: Sunday, Oct 11 at 7:58 pm, looking southwest.

When is the next Starlink train over Columbus?

Saturday, Oct 10 at 7:41 pm: 22 satellites from launch 2026-225, appearing in the south and reaching 14°.

Which direction should I look for Starlink from Columbus?

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

Nearby cities

All of Georgia →

Auburn 49 km Montgomery 124 km Albany 126 km Warner Robins 129 km South Fulton 129 km Macon 134 km

Also tonight: the ISS

ISS pass times for Columbus →

No visible pass of the International Space Station tonight. Next chance: Tuesday, Oct 13 at 6:32 am, looking south-southwest. 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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