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Can I see Starlink tonight in Durham, NC?

No visible passes tonight.

Next good chance: Wednesday, Oct 14 at 7:19 pm, looking southwest.

Updated Times in local time (EDT)35.99°, -78.90°
Next pass · Wednesday, Oct 14
Appears
7:19 pm
southwest, 11°
Highest
7:54 pm
26° south
Fades
7:55 pm
southeast, 11°
NESW
≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 24 satellitesLaunch 2026-225 · 28 September 2026

The next 8 nights at a glance

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

Pass times, night by night

start · path · brightness

Tonight · Wednesday, Oct 7

dark 7:17 pm – 6:50 am
No visible passes tonight.

Thursday, Oct 8 – Saturday, Oct 10

no visible passes

Sunday, Oct 11

dark 7:11 pm – 6:54 am
7:43 pmto 7:45 pm · 2 min
S → SSE, highest 13° SSEappears south at 11°, low at the top
≈ mag 5 · faintTrain · 1
7:59 pmto 8:22 pm · 23 min
SSW → S, highest 16° Sappears south-southwest at 10°, low at the top
≈ mag 5 · faintTrain · 22

Monday, Oct 12

dark 7:10 pm – 6:54 am
7:34 pmto 7:37 pm · 3 min
SSW → SE, highest 15° SSEappears south-southwest at 11°, low at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 1
8:00 pmto 8:02 pm · 2 min
SW → S, highest 20° Sappears southwest at 10°, low at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 1
8:18 pmto 8:39 pm · 20 min
SW → SSW, highest 19° SSWappears southwest at 10°, low at the top
≈ mag 5 · faintTrain · 16

Tuesday, Oct 13

dark 7:09 pm – 6:55 am
7:08 pmto 7:33 pm · 25 min
SE → ESE, highest 21° SSEappears southeast at 12°, low at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 23
7:46 pmto 7:49 pm · 3 min
SW → SSE, highest 21° Sappears southwest at 11°, low at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 1
8:18 pmto 8:19 pm · 1 min
SW → SW, highest 19° SWappears southwest at 12°, low at the top
≈ mag 5 · faintTrain · 1

Wednesday, Oct 14

dark 7:07 pm – 6:56 am
7:19 pmto 7:55 pm · 35 min
SW → SE, highest 26° Sappears southwest at 11°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 24
8:00 pmto 8:02 pm · 2 min
SW → S, highest 24° Sappears southwest at 11°, low 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 Durham

Durham is at 36.0°N. Tonight the sky is dark enough from 7:17 pm until 6:50 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 10 visible passes (10 in the evening, 0 before dawn); 2 of them should be easy to spot (estimated magnitude 4 or brighter).

The best one is on Wednesday, Oct 14 at 7:19 pm: it appears in the southwest, climbs to 26° in the south and fades in the southeast at about magnitude 4.

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 Durham while it is dark and they are sunlit in this period.

Questions

Can I see Starlink tonight in Durham?

No visible passes tonight. Next good chance: Wednesday, Oct 14 at 7:19 pm, looking southwest.

When is the next Starlink train over Durham?

Sunday, Oct 11 at 7:43 pm: 1 satellites from launch 2026-225, appearing in the south and reaching 13°.

Which direction should I look for Starlink from Durham?

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

Nearby cities

All of North Carolina →
Cary 25 kmRaleigh 34 kmBurlington 50 kmGreensboro 81 kmHigh Point 100 kmRocky Mount 100 km

Before you go out

How to spot StarlinkWhat the Starlink train isWhy some nights have nothing