Satellites Tonight

Can I see Starlink tonight in Gulfport, MS?

No visible passes tonight.

Next good chance: Saturday, Oct 10 at 7:33 pm, looking southwest.

Updated Times in local time (CDT)30.37°, -89.09°
Also tonight over Gulfport
Next pass · Saturday, Oct 10
Appears
7:33 pm
southwest, 11°
Highest
7:36 pm
25° south-southeast
Fades
7:36 pm
south-southeast, 25°
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≈ mag 3.5 · easyTrain · 2 satellitesLaunch 2026-225 · 28 September 2026

The next 8 nights at a glance

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

Pass times, night by night

start · path · brightness

Tonight · Wednesday, Oct 7

dark 6:59 pm – 6:30 am
No visible passes tonight.

Thursday, Oct 8

no visible passes

Friday, Oct 9

dark 6:57 pm – 6:31 am
7:27 pmto 7:29 pm · 2 min
S → SSE, highest 14° SSEappears south at 10°, low at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 2
7:37 pmto 7:38 pm · 2 min
SSW → SSE, highest 17° SSEappears south-southwest at 11°, low at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 1
7:44 pmto 7:46 pm · 2 min
SSW → S, highest 19° Sappears south-southwest at 11°, low at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 1
7:56 pmto 8:11 pm · 15 min
SW → SSW, highest 18° SSWappears southwest at 11°, low at the top
≈ mag 5 · faintTrain · 14

Saturday, Oct 10

dark 6:55 pm – 6:31 am
6:55 pmto 6:59 pm · 5 min
SSE → ESE, highest 15° SSEappears south-southeast at 15°, low at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 5
7:33 pmto 7:36 pm · 3 min
SW → SSE, highest 25° SSEappears southwest at 11°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 3.5 · easyTrain · 2
7:49 pmto 7:51 pm · 2 min
SW → SSW, highest 27° SSWappears southwest at 10°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 1
7:59 pmto 8:01 pm · 1 min
SW → SW, highest 22° SWappears southwest at 12°, low at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 1

Sunday, Oct 11

dark 6:54 pm – 6:32 am
6:57 pmto 7:17 pm · 19 min
SW → ESE, highest 32° SSEappears southwest at 11°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 3.5 · easyTrain · 22
7:39 pmto 7:42 pm · 3 min
WSW → S, highest 43° Sappears west-southwest at 11°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 3 · easyTrain · 2
8:04 pmto 8:06 pm · 1 min
WSW → WSW, highest 26° WSWappears west-southwest at 11°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 1

Monday, Oct 12

dark 6:53 pm – 6:33 am
6:59 pmto 7:04 pm · 5 min
WSW → E, highest 41° SSEappears west-southwest at 11°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 3.5 · easyTrain · 1
7:14 pmto 7:38 pm · 24 min
WSW → ESE, highest 63° SSEappears west-southwest at 12°, high at the top
≈ mag 2.5 · brightTrain · 22
7:45 pmto 7:48 pm · 2 min
WSW → SW, highest 57° SWappears west-southwest at 12°, high at the top
≈ mag 3 · easyTrain · 2

Tuesday, Oct 13

dark 6:52 pm – 6:33 am
7:02 pmto 7:07 pm · 5 min
WSW → E, highest 63° SSEappears west-southwest at 12°, high at the top
≈ mag 2.5 · brightTrain · 1
7:18 pmto 7:23 pm · 4 min
WSW → E, highest 73° SSEappears west-southwest at 11°, high at the top
≈ mag 2.5 · brightTrain · 1
7:26 pmto 8:00 pm · 33 min
WSW → E, highest 84° SSWappears west-southwest at 11°, almost overhead at the top
≈ mag 2.5 · brightTrain · 24

Wednesday, Oct 14

dark 6:51 pm – 6:34 am
7:20 pmto 7:24 pm · 4 min
W → E, highest 86° Wappears west at 11°, almost overhead at the top
≈ mag 2.5 · brightTrain · 1
7:36 pmto 7:54 pm · 17 min
W → NE, highest 83° NEappears west at 12°, almost overhead at the top
≈ mag 2.5 · brightTrain · 11
7:58 pmto 8:21 pm · 23 min
W → W, highest 38° Wappears west at 12°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 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: Saturday, Oct 10 at 6:18 am, looking south-southeast. The space station is far brighter than Starlink satellites, so it is often the easier thing to spot.

Tiangong, China's space station

9 visible passes in 8 nights

Yes · 6:28 am, look north-northwest. 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 86:28 amnorth-northwest14° N0.5
Friday, Oct 95:30 amnorth12° N0.5
Saturday, Oct 106:06 amnorth-northwest19° NNE0.5
Sunday, Oct 115:10 amnorth-northeast14° NNE1
Monday, Oct 125:46 amnorth-northwest29° NNE0
Tuesday, Oct 134:50 ameast-northeast13° ENE2.5
Tuesday, Oct 136:22 amwest-northwest75° SW-2.5
Wednesday, Oct 145:26 amnortheast50° NE-1
Thursday, Oct 156:02 amwest-southwest32° SSW-1.5

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

Seeing Starlink from Gulfport

Gulfport is at 30.4°N. Tonight the sky is dark enough from 6:59 pm until 6:30 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); 13 of them should be easy to spot (estimated magnitude 4 or brighter).

The best one is on Wednesday, Oct 14 at 7:20 pm: it appears in the west, climbs to 86° in the west and fades in the east at about magnitude 2.5.

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

Questions

Can I see Starlink tonight in Gulfport?

No visible passes tonight. Next good chance: Saturday, Oct 10 at 7:33 pm, looking southwest.

When is the next Starlink train over Gulfport?

Friday, Oct 9 at 7:27 pm: 2 satellites from launch 2026-225, appearing in the south and reaching 14°.

Which direction should I look for Starlink from Gulfport?

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.

Before you go out