Satellites Tonight

Can I see Starlink tonight in Cypress, TX?

No visible passes tonight.

Next good chance: Saturday, Oct 10 at 7:48 pm, looking southwest.

Updated Times in local time (CDT)29.97°, -95.70°
Also tonight over Cypress
Next pass · Saturday, Oct 10
Appears
7:48 pm
southwest, 10°
Highest
7:50 pm
25° south-southeast
Fades
7:51 pm
southeast, 22°
NESW
≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 1 satellitesLaunch 2026-225 · 28 September 2026

The next 8 nights at a glance

21 visible passes
dark skytraineasy (mag ≤ 3.5)moderate (≤ 4)faint (≤ 5)

Pass times, night by night

start · path · brightness

Tonight · Wednesday, Oct 7

dark 7:25 pm – 6:56 am
No visible passes tonight.

Thursday, Oct 8

no visible passes

Friday, Oct 9

dark 7:23 pm – 6:57 am
7:36 pmto 7:38 pm · 2 min
S → SE, highest 12° SSEappears south at 11°, low at the top
≈ mag 5 · faintTrain · 1
7:43 pmto 7:46 pm · 2 min
S → SE, highest 14° SSEappears south at 11°, low at the top
≈ mag 5 · faintTrain · 1
7:55 pmto 8:18 pm · 22 min
SSW → SSE, highest 20° SSEappears south-southwest at 11°, low at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 22

Saturday, Oct 10

dark 7:22 pm – 6:58 am
7:32 pmto 7:36 pm · 4 min
SSW → ESE, highest 18° SSEappears south-southwest at 11°, low at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 2
7:48 pmto 7:51 pm · 3 min
SW → SE, highest 25° SSEappears southwest at 10°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 1
7:58 pmto 8:01 pm · 3 min
SW → SSE, highest 29° SSEappears southwest at 12°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 3.5 · easyTrain · 1
8:12 pmto 8:31 pm · 18 min
SW → S, highest 33° SSWappears southwest at 11°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 3.5 · easyTrain · 22

Sunday, Oct 11

dark 7:21 pm – 6:58 am
7:38 pmto 7:42 pm · 4 min
SW → ESE, highest 32° Sappears southwest at 12°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 3.5 · easyTrain · 2
8:03 pmto 8:06 pm · 3 min
WSW → SSE, highest 48° Sappears west-southwest at 12°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 3 · easyTrain · 1
8:15 pmto 8:18 pm · 2 min
WSW → SSW, highest 47° SSWappears west-southwest at 12°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 3.5 · easyTrain · 1
8:32 pmto 8:48 pm · 16 min
WSW → WSW, highest 27° WSWappears west-southwest at 11°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 22

Monday, Oct 12

dark 7:20 pm – 6:59 am
7:19 pmto 7:38 pm · 19 min
S → E, highest 51° Sappears south at 40°, high at the top
≈ mag 3 · easyTrain · 17
7:44 pmto 7:48 pm · 4 min
WSW → E, highest 57° Sappears west-southwest at 10°, high at the top
≈ mag 2.5 · brightTrain · 2
8:19 pmto 8:22 pm · 2 min
W → WSW, highest 45° WSWappears west at 10°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 3.5 · easyTrain · 1
8:34 pmto 8:36 pm · 1 min
W → W, highest 27° Wappears west at 11°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 1

Tuesday, Oct 13

dark 7:19 pm – 7:00 am
7:18 pmto 7:22 pm · 5 min
WSW → E, highest 61° Sappears west-southwest at 20°, high at the top
≈ mag 3 · easyTrain · 1
7:25 pmto 8:00 pm · 35 min
WSW → E, highest 85° SEappears west-southwest at 10°, almost overhead at the top
≈ mag 2 · brightTrain · 24
8:37 pmto 8:38 pm · 1 min
W → W, highest 22° Wappears west at 11°, low at the top
≈ mag 5 · faintTrain · 1

Wednesday, Oct 14

dark 7:18 pm – 7:00 am
7:19 pmto 7:24 pm · 5 min
W → E, highest 80° ESEappears west at 12°, almost overhead at the top
≈ mag 2.5 · brightTrain · 1
7:35 pmto 7:54 pm · 19 min
W → E, highest 85° WNWappears west at 10°, almost overhead at the top
≈ mag 2.5 · brightTrain · 11
7:56 pmto 8:21 pm · 25 min
W → ENE, highest 79° Nappears west at 11°, almost overhead at the top
≈ mag 2 · brightTrain · 14

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.

No visible pass of the International Space Station tonight. Next chance: Monday, Oct 12 at 6:18 am, looking south. The space station is far brighter than Starlink satellites, so it is often the easier thing to spot.

Tiangong, China's space station

8 visible passes in 8 nights

Yes · 6:27 am, look north. Tiangong orbits about 386 km up, tilted 41.5° to the equator. It looks like a bright, steady star gliding across the sky, fainter than the ISS but easy to see without a telescope.

NightAppearsLookHighestMag ≈
Thursday, Oct 86:27 amnorth11° N1
Saturday, Oct 106:06 amnorth14° NNE1
Sunday, Oct 116:42 amnorthwest28° NNE0
Monday, Oct 125:46 amnorth-northeast19° NNE0.5
Tuesday, Oct 136:22 amnorthwest53° NNE-1.5
Wednesday, Oct 145:26 ameast-northeast19° ENE2
Wednesday, Oct 146:58 amwest19° W-1.5
Thursday, Oct 156:02 amsouth62° S-2

Local time. Brightness is a rough estimate (±1 magnitude; lower is brighter). How we compute this.

Seeing Starlink from Cypress

Cypress is at 30.0°N. Tonight the sky is dark enough from 7:25 pm until 6:56 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 21 visible passes (21 in the evening, 0 before dawn); 14 of them should be easy to spot (estimated magnitude 4 or brighter).

The best one is on Tuesday, Oct 13 at 7:25 pm: it appears in the west-southwest, climbs to 85° in the southeast and fades in the east at about magnitude 2.

The passes come from these launches:

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

Questions

Can I see Starlink tonight in Cypress?

No visible passes tonight. Next good chance: Saturday, Oct 10 at 7:48 pm, looking southwest.

When is the next Starlink train over Cypress?

Friday, Oct 9 at 7:36 pm: 1 satellites from launch 2026-225, appearing in the south and reaching 12°.

Which direction should I look for Starlink from Cypress?

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

Nearby cities

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