Satellites Tonight

Can I see Starlink tonight in Jackson, TN?

No visible passes tonight.

Next good chance: Tuesday, Oct 13 at 7:36 pm, looking southwest.

Updated Times in local time (CDT)35.61°, -88.81°
Next pass · Tuesday, Oct 13
Appears
7:36 pm
southwest, 11°
Highest
7:47 pm
26° south
Fades
8:05 pm
south, 25°
NESW
≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 24 satellitesLaunch 2026-225 · 28 September 2026

The next 8 nights at a glance

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

Pass times, night by night

start · path · brightness

Tonight · Wednesday, Oct 7

dark 6:56 pm – 6:30 am
No visible passes tonight.

Thursday, Oct 8 – Saturday, Oct 10

no visible passes

Sunday, Oct 11

dark 6:51 pm – 6:33 am
6:58 pmto 7:22 pm · 24 min
S → SE, highest 14° SSEappears south at 10°, low at the top
≈ mag 5 · faintTrain · 22
7:38 pmto 7:40 pm · 2 min
SSW → S, highest 14° Sappears south-southwest at 10°, low at the top
≈ mag 5 · faintTrain · 2

Monday, Oct 12

dark 6:50 pm – 6:34 am
6:58 pmto 7:02 pm · 4 min
SSW → SE, highest 15° SSEappears south-southwest at 11°, low at the top
≈ mag 5 · faintTrain · 1
7:16 pmto 7:46 pm · 29 min
SSW → SE, highest 22° Sappears south-southwest at 11°, low at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 24

Tuesday, Oct 13

dark 6:48 pm – 6:35 am
6:48 pmto 6:48 pm · 1 min
SE → ESE, highest 14° SEappears southeast at 14°, low at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 1
7:16 pmto 7:19 pm · 3 min
SW → SE, highest 22° Sappears southwest at 12°, low at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 1
7:36 pmto 8:05 pm · 28 min
SW → S, highest 26° Sappears southwest at 11°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 24

Wednesday, Oct 14

dark 6:47 pm – 6:36 am
6:46 pmto 6:55 pm · 9 min
S → ESE, highest 24° Sappears south at 21°, low at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 6
6:58 pmto 7:02 pm · 4 min
SW → ESE, highest 23° Sappears southwest at 12°, low at the top
≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 1
7:34 pmto 7:36 pm · 3 min
SW → S, highest 27° Sappears southwest at 12°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 1
7:52 pmto 8:21 pm · 29 min
SW → SSW, highest 23° SWappears southwest at 12°, low at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 21

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 Jackson

Jackson is at 35.6°N. Tonight the sky is dark enough from 6:56 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 11 visible passes (11 in the evening, 0 before dawn); 3 of them should be easy to spot (estimated magnitude 4 or brighter).

The best one is on Wednesday, Oct 14 at 7:34 pm: it appears in the southwest, climbs to 27° in the south and fades in the south 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 Jackson while it is dark and they are sunlit in this period.

Questions

Can I see Starlink tonight in Jackson?

No visible passes tonight. Next good chance: Tuesday, Oct 13 at 7:36 pm, looking southwest.

When is the next Starlink train over Jackson?

Sunday, Oct 11 at 6:58 pm: 22 satellites from launch 2026-225, appearing in the south and reaching 14°.

Which direction should I look for Starlink from Jackson?

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.

Nearby cities

All of Tennessee →
Memphis 123 kmFlorence 137 kmPaducah 164 kmClarksville 166 kmJonesboro 172 kmNashville 193 km

Before you go out

How to spot StarlinkWhat the Starlink train isWhy some nights have nothing