dark skytraineasy (mag ≤ 3.5)moderate (≤ 4)faint (≤ 5)
Pass times, night by night
start · path · brightness
Tonight · Wednesday, Oct 7
dark 7:08 pm – 6:40 am
No visible passes tonight.
Thursday, Oct 8 – Friday, Oct 9
no visible passes
Saturday, Oct 10
dark 7:04 pm – 6:42 am
7:10 pmto 7:34 pm · 24 min
S → ESE, highest 18° SSEappears south at 10°, low at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 22
8:03 pmto 8:05 pm · 2 min
SW → SSW, highest 18° SSWappears southwest at 10°, low at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 2
Sunday, Oct 11
dark 7:03 pm – 6:42 am
7:11 pmto 7:16 pm · 4 min
SW → ESE, highest 22° SSEappears southwest at 10°, low at the top
≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 1
7:28 pmto 7:53 pm · 25 min
SW → ESE, highest 35° Sappears southwest at 12°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 3.5 · easyTrain · 22
8:08 pmto 8:11 pm · 2 min
WSW → SW, highest 21° SWappears west-southwest at 11°, low at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 2
Monday, Oct 12
dark 7:02 pm – 6:43 am
7:03 pmto 7:08 pm · 5 min
SW → ESE, highest 28° SSEappears southwest at 11°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 1
7:29 pmto 7:33 pm · 4 min
WSW → ESE, highest 39° SSEappears west-southwest at 11°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 3.5 · easyTrain · 1
7:48 pmto 8:16 pm · 28 min
WSW → SSE, highest 49° Sappears west-southwest at 11°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 3 · easyTrain · 24
Tuesday, Oct 13
dark 7:01 pm – 6:44 am
7:00 pmto 7:05 pm · 4 min
SSW → E, highest 40° SSEappears south-southwest at 33°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 3.5 · easyTrain · 3
7:15 pmto 7:20 pm · 4 min
WSW → E, highest 46° Sappears west-southwest at 11°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 3 · easyTrain · 1
7:47 pmto 7:50 pm · 3 min
WSW → S, highest 59° Sappears west-southwest at 10°, high at the top
≈ mag 3 · easyTrain · 1
8:08 pmto 8:36 pm · 28 min
WSW → WSW, highest 38° WSWappears west-southwest at 12°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 24
Wednesday, Oct 14
dark 7:00 pm – 6:44 am
6:59 pmto 7:26 pm · 27 min
WSW → E, highest 62° Sappears west-southwest at 16°, high at the top
≈ mag 3 · easyTrain · 18
7:29 pmto 7:33 pm · 4 min
WSW → ESE, highest 63° SSEappears west-southwest at 11°, high at the top
≈ mag 2.5 · brightTrain · 1
8:05 pmto 8:07 pm · 2 min
W → WSW, highest 36° WSWappears west at 11°, halfway up 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 El Paso
El Paso is at 31.8°N. Tonight the sky is dark enough from 7:08 pm until 6:40 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); 12 of them should be easy to spot (estimated magnitude 4 or brighter).
The best one is on Wednesday, Oct 14 at 7:29 pm: it appears in the west-southwest, climbs to 63° in the south-southeast and fades in the east-southeast at about magnitude 2.5.
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 Paso while it is dark and they are sunlit in this period.
Questions
Can I see Starlink tonight in El Paso?
No visible passes tonight. Next good chance: Sunday, Oct 11 at 7:11 pm, looking southwest.
When is the next Starlink train over El Paso?
Saturday, Oct 10 at 7:10 pm: 22 satellites from launch 2026-225, appearing in the south and reaching 18°.
Which direction should I look for Starlink from El Paso?
This week most passes appear in the west-southwest or southwest. Each pass above lists where it appears, how high it climbs and where it fades.