Satellites Tonight

Can I see Starlink tonight in Henderson, NV?

No visible passes tonight.

Next good chance: Tuesday, Oct 13 at 6:57 pm, looking southwest.

Updated Times in local time (PDT)36.04°, -114.98°
Also tonight over Henderson
Next pass · Tuesday, Oct 13
Appears
6:57 pm
southwest, 11°
Highest
7:31 pm
25° south
Fades
7:31 pm
southeast, 15°
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≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 24 satellitesLaunch 2026-225 · 28 September 2026

The next 8 nights at a glance

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

Pass times, night by night

start · path · brightness

Tonight · Wednesday, Oct 7

dark 6:41 pm – 6:15 am
No visible passes tonight.

Thursday, Oct 8 – Saturday, Oct 10

no visible passes

Sunday, Oct 11

dark 6:35 pm – 6:18 am
7:10 pmto 7:12 pm · 1 min
S → SSE, highest 12° SSEappears south at 10°, low at the top
≈ mag 5 · faintTrain · 2
7:36 pmto 7:37 pm · 1 min
SSW → S, highest 15° Sappears south-southwest at 10°, low at the top
≈ mag 5 · faintTrain · 1

Monday, Oct 12

dark 6:34 pm – 6:19 am
6:45 pmto 7:09 pm · 24 min
SSW → SE, highest 18° SSEappears south-southwest at 10°, low at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 22
7:16 pmto 7:18 pm · 2 min
SSW → SSE, highest 17° SSEappears south-southwest at 11°, low at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 2

Tuesday, Oct 13

dark 6:33 pm – 6:20 am
6:34 pmto 6:38 pm · 4 min
SSW → SE, highest 17° SSEappears south-southwest at 10°, low at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 1
6:50 pmto 6:54 pm · 4 min
SW → SE, highest 20° SSEappears southwest at 11°, low at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 1
6:57 pmto 7:31 pm · 34 min
SW → SE, highest 25° Sappears southwest at 11°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 24

Wednesday, Oct 14

dark 6:31 pm – 6:21 am
6:51 pmto 6:55 pm · 4 min
SW → SE, highest 23° Sappears southwest at 11°, low at the top
≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 1
7:07 pmto 7:25 pm · 17 min
SW → SSE, highest 25° Sappears southwest at 10°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 11
7:28 pmto 7:53 pm · 24 min
SW → SSW, highest 25° Sappears southwest at 11°, 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: Monday, Oct 12 at 5:53 am, looking south. The space station is far brighter than Starlink satellites, so it is often the easier thing to spot.

Tiangong, China's space station

10 visible passes in 8 nights

Yes · 5:58 am, look west-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 84:26 amnortheast15° NE2
Thursday, Oct 85:58 amwest-northwest34° N-1
Friday, Oct 95:02 amnorth-northeast28° NNE0
Saturday, Oct 105:38 amnorthwest45° NNE-1
Sunday, Oct 114:42 ameast-northeast22° ENE1.5
Sunday, Oct 116:14 amwest-northwest62° WSW-2.5
Monday, Oct 125:18 amnorth-northwest72° NNE-2.5
Tuesday, Oct 135:54 amwest34° SSW-1.5
Wednesday, Oct 144:58 amsoutheast25° SE0.5
Thursday, Oct 155:34 amsouth-southwest18° SSW-0.5

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

Seeing Starlink from Henderson

Henderson is at 36.0°N. Tonight the sky is dark enough from 6:41 pm until 6:15 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 10 visible passes (10 in the evening, 0 before dawn); 4 of them should be easy to spot (estimated magnitude 4 or brighter).

The best one is on Tuesday, Oct 13 at 6:57 pm: it appears in the southwest, climbs to 25° in the south and fades in the southeast at about magnitude 4.

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

Questions

Can I see Starlink tonight in Henderson?

No visible passes tonight. Next good chance: Tuesday, Oct 13 at 6:57 pm, looking southwest.

When is the next Starlink train over Henderson?

Sunday, Oct 11 at 7:10 pm: 2 satellites from launch 2026-225, appearing in the south and reaching 12°.

Which direction should I look for Starlink from Henderson?

This week most passes appear in the southwest or south-southwest. Each pass above lists where it appears, how high it climbs and where it fades.

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