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 – 6:31 am
No visible passes tonight.
Thursday, Oct 8
no visible passes
Friday, Oct 9
dark 6:57 pm – 6:32 am
7:28 pmto 7:29 pm · 2 min
S → SSE, highest 12° SSEappears south at 11°, low at the top
≈ mag 5 · faintTrain · 2
7:37 pmto 7:38 pm · 1 min
S → SSE, highest 14° SSEappears south at 11°, low at the top
≈ mag 5 · faintTrain · 1
7:44 pmto 7:46 pm · 1 min
SSW → S, highest 16° Sappears south-southwest at 11°, low at the top
≈ mag 5 · faintTrain · 1
Saturday, Oct 10
dark 6:56 pm – 6:33 am
6:55 pmto 6:59 pm · 4 min
SSE → SE, highest 13° SSEappears south-southeast at 13°, low at the top
≈ mag 5 · faintTrain · 4
7:33 pmto 7:36 pm · 3 min
SSW → SSE, highest 21° SSEappears south-southwest at 11°, low at the top
≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 2
7:50 pmto 7:51 pm · 2 min
SW → SSW, highest 23° SSWappears southwest at 12°, low at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 1
7:59 pmto 8:01 pm · 1 min
SW → SSW, highest 20° SSWappears southwest at 11°, low at the top
≈ mag 5 · faintTrain · 1
Sunday, Oct 11
dark 6:55 pm – 6:33 am
6:57 pmto 7:17 pm · 19 min
SSW → ESE, highest 27° SSEappears south-southwest at 10°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 22
7:39 pmto 7:42 pm · 2 min
SW → S, highest 34° Sappears southwest at 11°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 3.5 · easyTrain · 2
8:04 pmto 8:06 pm · 1 min
WSW → SW, highest 24° SWappears west-southwest at 10°, low at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 1
Monday, Oct 12
dark 6:53 pm – 6:34 am
7:00 pmto 7:04 pm · 5 min
SW → ESE, highest 33° SSEappears southwest at 12°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 3.5 · easyTrain · 1
7:14 pmto 7:38 pm · 24 min
SW → ESE, highest 50° SSEappears southwest at 12°, high at the top
≈ mag 3 · easyTrain · 22
7:45 pmto 7:48 pm · 2 min
WSW → SSW, highest 47° SSWappears west-southwest at 11°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 3 · easyTrain · 2
Tuesday, Oct 13
dark 6:52 pm – 6:35 am
7:02 pmto 7:07 pm · 5 min
WSW → E, highest 49° SSEappears west-southwest at 11°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 3 · easyTrain · 1
7:18 pmto 7:23 pm · 4 min
WSW → E, highest 57° SSEappears west-southwest at 11°, high at the top
≈ mag 3 · easyTrain · 1
7:26 pmto 8:00 pm · 33 min
WSW → ESE, highest 68° Sappears west-southwest at 11°, high at the top
≈ mag 2.5 · brightTrain · 24
Wednesday, Oct 14
dark 6:51 pm – 6:35 am
7:20 pmto 7:24 pm · 4 min
W → E, highest 71° Sappears west at 11°, high at the top
≈ mag 2.5 · brightTrain · 1
7:36 pmto 7:54 pm · 17 min
W → SSE, highest 74° SSWappears west at 12°, high at the top
≈ mag 2.5 · brightTrain · 11
7:58 pmto 8:21 pm · 23 min
W → WSW, highest 39° WSWappears 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.
Seeing Starlink from Hattiesburg
Hattiesburg is at 31.3°N. Tonight the sky is dark enough from 6:59 pm until 6:31 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 19 visible passes (19 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 7:36 pm: it appears in the west, climbs to 74° in the south-southwest and fades in the south-southeast 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): 19 passes here
Satellites from launch 2026-219 (20 September 2026) are also low and bright, but they do not pass over Hattiesburg while it is dark and they are sunlit in this period.
Questions
Can I see Starlink tonight in Hattiesburg?
No visible passes tonight. Next good chance: Saturday, Oct 10 at 7:33 pm, looking south-southwest.
When is the next Starlink train over Hattiesburg?
Friday, Oct 9 at 7:28 pm: 2 satellites from launch 2026-225, appearing in the south and reaching 12°.
Which direction should I look for Starlink from Hattiesburg?
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.
No visible pass of the International Space Station tonight. Next chance: Saturday, Oct 10 at 6:18 am, looking southeast. The space station is far brighter than Starlink satellites, so it is often the easier thing to spot.