dark skytraineasy (mag ≤ 3.5)moderate (≤ 4)faint (≤ 5)
Pass times, night by night
start · path · brightness
Tonight · Wednesday, Oct 7
dark 6:50 pm – 6:22 am
No visible passes tonight.
Thursday, Oct 8 – Friday, Oct 9
no visible passes
Saturday, Oct 10
dark 6:46 pm – 6:24 am
7:02 pmto 7:05 pm · 3 min
S → SE, highest 12° SSEappears south at 10°, low at the top
≈ mag 5 · faintTrain · 2
7:14 pmto 7:16 pm · 2 min
SSW → SE, highest 15° SSEappears south-southwest at 11°, low at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 1
7:28 pmto 7:31 pm · 2 min
SSW → SSE, highest 19° SSEappears south-southwest at 10°, low at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 1
7:43 pmto 8:04 pm · 21 min
SW → SSW, highest 20° Sappears southwest at 11°, low at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 21
Sunday, Oct 11
dark 6:45 pm – 6:25 am
6:44 pmto 6:53 pm · 9 min
S → ESE, highest 18° SSEappears south at 15°, low at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 11
7:06 pmto 7:11 pm · 4 min
SSW → SE, highest 20° SSEappears south-southwest at 11°, low at the top
≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 2
7:24 pmto 7:27 pm · 2 min
SW → SSE, highest 25° SSEappears southwest at 12°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 1
7:45 pmto 7:47 pm · 2 min
SW → SSW, highest 24° SSWappears southwest at 12°, low at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 1
Monday, Oct 12
dark 6:43 pm – 6:25 am
6:46 pmto 7:16 pm · 30 min
SW → ESE, highest 32° Sappears southwest at 11°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 3.5 · easyTrain · 24
7:36 pmto 7:38 pm · 2 min
WSW → SSW, highest 35° SSWappears west-southwest at 11°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 3.5 · easyTrain · 1
Tuesday, Oct 13
dark 6:42 pm – 6:26 am
6:45 pmto 6:50 pm · 5 min
SW → ESE, highest 33° Sappears southwest at 11°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 3.5 · easyTrain · 1
7:06 pmto 7:36 pm · 30 min
WSW → ESE, highest 48° Sappears west-southwest at 11°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 3 · easyTrain · 24
7:49 pmto 7:51 pm · 2 min
WSW → WSW, highest 29° WSWappears west-southwest at 12°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 1
Wednesday, Oct 14
dark 6:41 pm – 6:27 am
7:03 pmto 7:07 pm · 4 min
WSW → ESE, highest 47° SSEappears west-southwest at 11°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 3 · easyTrain · 1
7:21 pmto 7:58 pm · 37 min
WSW → S, highest 52° Sappears west-southwest at 12°, high at the top
≈ mag 3 · easyTrain · 24
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 El Cajon
El Cajon is at 32.8°N. Tonight the sky is dark enough from 6:50 pm until 6:22 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); 9 of them should be easy to spot (estimated magnitude 4 or brighter).
The best one is on Wednesday, Oct 14 at 7:21 pm: it appears in the west-southwest, climbs to 52° 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 296–315 km up): 15 passes here
Satellites from launch 2026-219 (20 September 2026) are also low and bright, but they do not pass over El Cajon while it is dark and they are sunlit in this period.
Questions
Can I see Starlink tonight in El Cajon?
No visible passes tonight. Next good chance: Sunday, Oct 11 at 7:06 pm, looking south-southwest.
When is the next Starlink train over El Cajon?
Saturday, Oct 10 at 7:02 pm: 2 satellites from launch 2026-225, appearing in the south and reaching 12°.
Which direction should I look for Starlink from El Cajon?
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.