Can I see Starlink tonight in Juneau, AK?

Yes — best chance 5:09 am, looking south.

Visible from 5:09 am to 5:41 am, almost overhead in the sky (85°) at its highest; easy to see away from bright lights.

Updated 7 Oct 2026, 21:35 UTCTimes in local time (AKDT)58.30°, -134.42°

Also tonight over Juneau

Space station (ISS)Not tonightNo visible pass in the next 8 nights Tiangong (China's station)Not tonightNo visible pass in the next 8 nights

Tonight's best pass

Appears

5:09 am

south, 47°

Highest

5:22 am

85° south-southeast

Fades

5:41 am

northeast, 12°

≈ mag 3.5 · easy11 satellites, same launchLaunch 2026-219 · 20 September 2026

The next 8 nights at a glance

24 visible passes

4 pm6 pm8 pm10 pmmidnight2 am4 am6 am8 am

Tonight

Thu, Oct 8

Fri, Oct 9

Sat, Oct 10

Sun, Oct 11

Mon, Oct 12

Tue, Oct 13

Wed, Oct 14

dark skytraineasy (mag ≤ 3.5)moderate (≤ 4)faint (≤ 5)

Pass times, night by night

start · path · brightness

Tonight · Wednesday, Oct 7

dark 6:54 pm – 6:38 am

4:34 amto 4:55 am · 21 min

ESE → ENE, highest 42° ESEappears east-southeast at 28°, halfway up at the top

≈ mag 4.5 · faint7 satellites

4:58 amto 5:07 am · 9 min

SE → NE, highest 56° SEappears southeast at 47°, high at the top

≈ mag 4 · moderate3 satellites

5:09 amto 5:41 am · 32 min

S → NE, highest 85° SSEappears south at 47°, almost overhead at the top

≈ mag 3.5 · easy11 satellites

5:44 amto 6:02 am · 19 min

WSW → NNE, highest 56° NWappears west-southwest at 27°, high at the top

≈ mag 3.5 · easy6 satellites

6:06 amto 6:29 am · 23 min

W → NNE, highest 36° NWappears west at 18°, halfway up at the top

≈ mag 4 · moderate7 satellites

6:30 amto 6:38 am · 8 min

W → NNE, highest 26° NWappears west at 12°, halfway up at the top

≈ mag 5 · faint3 satellites

Thursday, Oct 8

dark 6:51 pm – 6:40 am

4:08 amto 4:38 am · 31 min

E → ENE, highest 38° Eappears east at 18°, halfway up at the top

≈ mag 5 · faint11 satellites

4:42 amto 4:59 am · 17 min

E → NE, highest 62° Eappears east at 42°, high at the top

≈ mag 4 · moderate6 satellites

5:06 amto 5:26 am · 19 min

SSW → NE, highest 86° NNWappears south-southwest at 73°, almost overhead at the top

≈ mag 3.5 · easy7 satellites

5:28 amto 5:38 am · 10 min

W → NE, highest 59° NNWappears west at 48°, high at the top

≈ mag 3.5 · easy3 satellites

5:39 amto 6:12 am · 33 min

W → NNE, highest 46° NWappears west at 32°, halfway up at the top

≈ mag 4 · moderate11 satellites

6:14 amto 6:33 am · 19 min

W → NNE, highest 26° NWappears west at 17°, halfway up at the top

≈ mag 5 · faint6 satellites

Friday, Oct 9

dark 6:48 pm – 6:43 am

4:38 amto 5:04 am · 26 min

ENE → NE, highest 67° NNEappears east-northeast at 39°, high at the top

≈ mag 3.5 · easy10 satellites

5:07 amto 5:10 am · 3 min

N → NE, highest 60° Nappears north at 60°, high at the top

≈ mag 4 · moderateSTARLINK-38438

5:15 amto 5:30 am · 15 min

NW → NNE, highest 58° NWappears northwest at 58°, high at the top

≈ mag 3.5 · easy6 satellites

5:41 amto 5:56 am · 15 min

WNW → NNE, highest 35° NWappears west-northwest at 30°, halfway up at the top

≈ mag 4.5 · faint7 satellites

5:58 amto 6:08 am · 10 min

WNW → NNE, highest 26° NWappears west-northwest at 21°, halfway up at the top

≈ mag 5 · faint3 satellites

Saturday, Oct 10

dark 6:45 pm – 6:45 am

4:39 amto 5:05 am · 26 min

NE → NE, highest 55° Nappears northeast at 39°, high at the top

≈ mag 4 · moderate10 satellites

5:08 amto 5:23 am · 15 min

NNW → NNE, highest 46° NNWappears north-northwest at 46°, halfway up at the top

≈ mag 4 · moderate6 satellites

5:26 amto 5:35 am · 9 min

NW → NNE, highest 35° NNWappears northwest at 35°, halfway up at the top

≈ mag 4.5 · faint4 satellites

5:38 amto 5:41 am · 3 min

NW → NNE, highest 29° NWappears northwest at 29°, halfway up at the top

≈ mag 4.5 · faintSTARLINK-38438

5:45 amto 6:00 am · 15 min

WNW → NNE, highest 26° NWappears west-northwest at 24°, halfway up at the top

≈ mag 5 · faint6 satellites

Sunday, Oct 11

dark 6:43 pm – 6:47 am

4:43 amto 4:57 am · 14 min

NNE → NE, highest 38° Nappears north-northeast at 32°, halfway up at the top

≈ mag 4.5 · faint6 satellites

5:10 amto 5:37 am · 27 min

NNW → NNE, highest 32° NNWappears north-northwest at 32°, halfway up at the top

≈ mag 4.5 · faint10 satellites

Monday, Oct 12 – Wednesday, Oct 14

no visible passes

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.

The ISS tonight

ISS pass times for Juneau →

No visible pass of the International Space Station tonight. The ISS does not pass over Juneau in a dark sky in the next 8 nights. The space station is far brighter than Starlink satellites, so it is often the easier thing to spot.

Tiangong, China's space station

0 visible passes in 8 nights

Tiangong's orbit is tilted 41.5° to the equator, so from Juneau at 58.3°N it stays low near the southern horizon and we find no pass above 10° in a dark sky in the next 8 nights.

Seeing Starlink from Juneau

Juneau is at 58.3°N. Tonight the sky is dark enough from 6:54 pm until 6:38 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 24 visible passes (0 in the evening, 24 before dawn); 13 of them should be easy to spot (estimated magnitude 4 or brighter).

The best one is on Friday, Oct 9 at 5:06 am: it appears in the south-southwest, climbs to 86° in the north-northwest and fades in the northeast at about magnitude 3.5.

The passes come from these launches:

2026-219, launched 20 September 2026 (27 satellites, now 341–366 km up): 24 passes here

Satellites from launch 2026-225 (28 September 2026) are also low and bright, but they do not pass over Juneau while it is dark and they are sunlit in this period.

No train is visible this week. A train is only a train for about the first 10 days after a launch; here is why some weeks have nothing.

Questions

Can I see Starlink tonight in Juneau?

Yes — best chance 5:09 am, looking south. Visible from 5:09 am to 5:41 am, almost overhead in the sky (85°) at its highest; easy to see away from bright lights.

When is the next Starlink train over Juneau?

There is no train pass over Juneau in the next 8 nights. Trains are only visible for about 10 days after a launch; the latest launch in our data is 2026-225 on 28 September 2026.

Which direction should I look for Starlink from Juneau?

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

Nearby cities

All of Alaska →

Anchorage 923 km Bellingham 1318 km Mount Vernon 1356 km Everett 1403 km Bremerton 1427 km Seattle 1434 km

Before you go out

ISS tonight in Juneau How to spot Starlink What the Starlink train is Why some nights have nothing