dark skytraineasy (mag ≤ 3.5)moderate (≤ 4)faint (≤ 5)
Pass times, night by night
start · path · brightness
Tonight · Wednesday, Oct 7
dark 7:24 pm – 6:53 am
No visible passes tonight.
Thursday, Oct 8
dark 7:23 pm – 6:53 am
7:25 pmto 7:34 pm · 9 min
SSE → SE, highest 12° SSEappears south-southeast at 10°, low at the top
≈ mag 5 · faintTrain · 8
8:21 pmto 8:27 pm · 5 min
SW → SSW, highest 19° SSWappears southwest at 10°, low at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 3
Friday, Oct 9
dark 7:22 pm – 6:54 am
7:22 pmto 7:47 pm · 25 min
SSW → ESE, highest 27° SSEappears south-southwest at 11°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 22
8:28 pmto 8:29 pm · 2 min
WSW → WSW, highest 20° WSWappears west-southwest at 12°, low at the top
≈ mag 5 · faintTrain · 2
Saturday, Oct 10
dark 7:21 pm – 6:54 am
7:25 pmto 7:30 pm · 5 min
SW → E, highest 37° SSEappears southwest at 10°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 3.5 · easyTrain · 1
7:39 pmto 8:00 pm · 21 min
SW → E, highest 65° Sappears southwest at 10°, high at the top
≈ mag 2.5 · brightTrain · 22
8:34 pmto 8:36 pm · 1 min
W → W, highest 20° Wappears west at 11°, low at the top
≈ mag 5 · faintTrain · 2
Sunday, Oct 11
dark 7:20 pm – 6:54 am
7:30 pmto 7:35 pm · 5 min
WSW → ENE, highest 76° SEappears west-southwest at 11°, almost overhead at the top
≈ mag 2.5 · brightTrain · 1
7:42 pmto 7:47 pm · 4 min
WSW → ENE, highest 80° ENEappears west-southwest at 12°, almost overhead at the top
≈ mag 2.5 · brightTrain · 1
7:59 pmto 8:17 pm · 18 min
W → NE, highest 69° Nappears west at 12°, high at the top
≈ mag 2.5 · brightTrain · 22
Monday, Oct 12
dark 7:19 pm – 6:55 am
7:47 pmto 7:51 pm · 4 min
W → NE, highest 51° Nappears west at 11°, high at the top
≈ mag 3 · easyTrain · 1
8:01 pmto 8:04 pm · 3 min
W → N, highest 45° NNWappears west at 10°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 3.5 · easyTrain · 1
8:15 pmto 8:38 pm · 22 min
W → NW, highest 36° NWappears west at 11°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 22
Tuesday, Oct 13
dark 7:18 pm – 6:55 am
7:18 pmto 7:28 pm · 11 min
N → ENE, highest 54° Nappears north at 54°, high at the top
≈ mag 3 · easyTrain · 9
8:04 pmto 8:07 pm · 3 min
WNW → N, highest 34° NNWappears west-northwest at 11°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 3.5 · easyTrain · 1
8:20 pmto 8:23 pm · 2 min
WNW → NNW, highest 29° NNWappears west-northwest at 10°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 1
8:29 pmto 8:47 pm · 19 min
WNW → NW, highest 21° NWappears west-northwest at 12°, low at the top
≈ mag 5 · faintTrain · 14
Wednesday, Oct 14
dark 7:17 pm – 6:56 am
7:17 pmto 7:23 pm · 6 min
NE → ENE, highest 37° NNWappears northeast at 21°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 3.5 · easyTrain · 4
7:24 pmto 7:50 pm · 26 min
WNW → ENE, highest 36° Nappears west-northwest at 11°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 3.5 · easyTrain · 14
8:22 pmto 8:24 pm · 1 min
WNW → NW, highest 22° NWappears 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 Fort Lauderdale
Fort Lauderdale is at 26.1°N. Tonight the sky is dark enough from 7:24 pm until 6:53 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); 14 of them should be easy to spot (estimated magnitude 4 or brighter).
The best one is on Sunday, Oct 11 at 7:42 pm: it appears in the west-southwest, climbs to 80° in the east-northeast and fades in the east-northeast at about magnitude 2.5.
The passes come from these launches:
2026-225, launched 28 September 2026 (train, 26 satellites, now 296–316 km up): 20 passes here
Satellites from launch 2026-219 (20 September 2026) are also low and bright, but they do not pass over Fort Lauderdale while it is dark and they are sunlit in this period.
Questions
Can I see Starlink tonight in Fort Lauderdale?
No visible passes tonight. Next good chance: Friday, Oct 9 at 7:22 pm, looking south-southwest.
When is the next Starlink train over Fort Lauderdale?
Thursday, Oct 8 at 7:25 pm: 8 satellites from launch 2026-225, appearing in the south-southeast and reaching 12°.
Which direction should I look for Starlink from Fort Lauderdale?
This week most passes appear in the west or west-northwest. Each pass above lists where it appears, how high it climbs and where it fades.
No visible pass of the International Space Station tonight. Next chance: Sunday, Oct 11 at 6:30 am, looking south. The space station is far brighter than Starlink satellites, so it is often the easier thing to spot.