dark skytraineasy (mag ≤ 3.5)moderate (≤ 4)faint (≤ 5)
Pass times, night by night
start · path · brightness
Tonight · Wednesday, Oct 7
dark 7:33 pm – 7:02 am
No visible passes tonight.
Thursday, Oct 8
dark 7:32 pm – 7:03 am
7:45 pmto 8:06 pm · 21 min
SSE → SSE, highest 14° SSEappears south-southeast at 10°, low at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 19
Friday, Oct 9
dark 7:31 pm – 7:03 am
7:32 pmto 7:35 pm · 3 min
S → SE, highest 14° SSEappears south at 10°, low at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 1
7:41 pmto 7:45 pm · 3 min
SSW → ESE, highest 17° SSEappears south-southwest at 11°, low at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 1
7:54 pmto 8:20 pm · 26 min
SSW → SE, highest 29° SSEappears south-southwest at 12°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 3.5 · easyTrain · 22
Saturday, Oct 10
dark 7:30 pm – 7:04 am
7:29 pmto 7:35 pm · 5 min
SSW → E, highest 24° SSEappears south-southwest at 11°, low at the top
≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 2
7:41 pmto 7:45 pm · 4 min
SW → ESE, highest 29° SSEappears southwest at 10°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 3.5 · easyTrain · 1
7:56 pmto 8:00 pm · 4 min
SW → ESE, highest 39° SSEappears southwest at 12°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 3 · easyTrain · 1
8:10 pmto 8:34 pm · 23 min
WSW → SE, highest 57° Sappears west-southwest at 10°, high at the top
≈ mag 3 · easyTrain · 22
Sunday, Oct 11
dark 7:28 pm – 7:04 am
7:34 pmto 7:40 pm · 6 min
SW → E, highest 47° Sappears southwest at 11°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 3 · easyTrain · 2
7:52 pmto 7:56 pm · 4 min
WSW → E, highest 64° SSEappears west-southwest at 10°, high at the top
≈ mag 2.5 · brightTrain · 1
8:13 pmto 8:16 pm · 3 min
WSW → E, highest 83° Eappears west-southwest at 12°, almost overhead at the top
≈ mag 2.5 · brightTrain · 1
8:29 pmto 8:53 pm · 24 min
W → W, highest 49° Wappears west at 12°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 3.5 · easyTrain · 22
Monday, Oct 12
dark 7:27 pm – 7:05 am
7:27 pmto 7:46 pm · 19 min
E → E, highest 88° SSWappears east at 33°, almost overhead at the top
≈ mag 2 · brightTrain · 19
8:04 pmto 8:08 pm · 3 min
W → NE, highest 68° NNWappears west at 12°, high at the top
≈ mag 2.5 · brightTrain · 1
8:31 pmto 8:33 pm · 2 min
W → WNW, highest 38° WNWappears west at 10°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 1
Tuesday, Oct 13
dark 7:26 pm – 7:05 am
7:34 pmto 8:05 pm · 31 min
W → ENE, highest 71° NNWappears west at 11°, high at the top
≈ mag 2.5 · brightTrain · 24
8:17 pmto 8:20 pm · 3 min
W → NNW, highest 47° NNWappears west at 12°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 3 · easyTrain · 1
Wednesday, Oct 14
dark 7:25 pm – 7:06 am
7:31 pmto 7:36 pm · 5 min
W → ENE, highest 53° Nappears west at 10°, high at the top
≈ mag 3 · easyTrain · 1
7:50 pmto 8:26 pm · 36 min
WNW → NE, highest 48° Nappears west-northwest at 12°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 3 · easyTrain · 24
8:31 pmto 8:33 pm · 1 min
WNW → WNW, highest 24° WNWappears west-northwest at 10°, 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 Corpus Christi
Corpus Christi is at 27.8°N. Tonight the sky is dark enough from 7:33 pm until 7:02 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 20 visible passes (20 in the evening, 0 before dawn); 16 of them should be easy to spot (estimated magnitude 4 or brighter).
The best one is on Monday, Oct 12 at 7:27 pm: it appears in the east, climbs to 88° in the south-southwest and fades in the east at about magnitude 2.
The passes come from these launches:
2026-225, launched 28 September 2026 (train, 26 satellites, now 296–315 km up): 20 passes here
Satellites from launch 2026-219 (20 September 2026) are also low and bright, but they do not pass over Corpus Christi while it is dark and they are sunlit in this period.
Questions
Can I see Starlink tonight in Corpus Christi?
No visible passes tonight. Next good chance: Friday, Oct 9 at 7:54 pm, looking south-southwest.
When is the next Starlink train over Corpus Christi?
Thursday, Oct 8 at 7:45 pm: 19 satellites from launch 2026-225, appearing in the south-southeast and reaching 14°.
Which direction should I look for Starlink from Corpus Christi?
This week most passes appear in the west or south-southwest. Each pass above lists where it appears, how high it climbs and where it fades.