dark skytraineasy (mag ≤ 3.5)moderate (≤ 4)faint (≤ 5)
Pass times, night by night
start · path · brightness
Tonight · Wednesday, Oct 7
dark 7:41 pm – 7:10 am
No visible passes tonight.
Thursday, Oct 8
dark 7:40 pm – 7:11 am
7:50 pmto 8:05 pm · 15 min
SSE → SSE, highest 13° SSEappears south-southeast at 10°, low at the top
≈ mag 5 · faintTrain · 15
Friday, Oct 9
dark 7:39 pm – 7:11 am
7:42 pmto 7:45 pm · 4 min
SSW → ESE, highest 16° SSEappears south-southwest at 11°, low at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 1
7:54 pmto 8:18 pm · 24 min
SSW → ESE, highest 28° SSEappears south-southwest at 11°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 3.5 · easyTrain · 22
Saturday, Oct 10
dark 7:38 pm – 7:12 am
7:47 pmto 7:51 pm · 4 min
SW → E, highest 31° SSEappears southwest at 12°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 3.5 · easyTrain · 1
7:57 pmto 8:01 pm · 4 min
SW → ESE, highest 37° SSEappears southwest at 11°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 3.5 · easyTrain · 1
8:11 pmto 8:31 pm · 19 min
SW → ESE, highest 60° Sappears southwest at 10°, high at the top
≈ mag 2.5 · brightTrain · 22
Sunday, Oct 11
dark 7:37 pm – 7:13 am
7:36 pmto 7:42 pm · 5 min
SW → E, highest 44° SSEappears southwest at 10°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 3 · easyTrain · 2
8:02 pmto 8:06 pm · 4 min
WSW → E, highest 70° Sappears west-southwest at 12°, high at the top
≈ mag 2.5 · brightTrain · 1
8:14 pmto 8:18 pm · 3 min
WSW → E, highest 80° SWappears west-southwest at 10°, almost overhead at the top
≈ mag 2.5 · brightTrain · 1
8:31 pmto 8:48 pm · 17 min
W → WNW, highest 64° WNWappears west at 11°, high at the top
≈ mag 3 · easyTrain · 22
Monday, Oct 12
dark 7:36 pm – 7:13 am
7:35 pmto 7:38 pm · 3 min
E → E, highest 63° ESEappears east at 29°, high at the top
≈ mag 2.5 · brightTrain · 3
7:43 pmto 7:48 pm · 5 min
WSW → ENE, highest 83° WSWappears west-southwest at 11°, almost overhead at the top
≈ mag 2 · brightTrain · 2
8:18 pmto 8:22 pm · 3 min
W → NNE, highest 61° NNWappears west at 10°, high at the top
≈ mag 3 · easyTrain · 1
8:33 pmto 8:36 pm · 2 min
W → NW, highest 48° NWappears west at 10°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 3.5 · easyTrain · 1
8:47 pmto 9:09 pm · 22 min
W → WNW, highest 24° WNWappears west at 12°, low at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 22
Tuesday, Oct 13
dark 7:35 pm – 7:14 am
7:34 pmto 8:00 pm · 25 min
W → ENE, highest 73° NNWappears west at 45°, high at the top
≈ mag 2.5 · brightTrain · 17
8:36 pmto 8:38 pm · 2 min
WNW → NW, highest 34° NWappears west-northwest at 12°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 1
8:52 pmto 8:54 pm · 1 min
WNW → WNW, highest 21° WNWappears west-northwest at 11°, low at the top
≈ mag 5 · faintTrain · 1
Wednesday, Oct 14
dark 7:34 pm – 7:14 am
7:34 pmto 7:54 pm · 20 min
W → ENE, highest 52° NNWappears west at 12°, high at the top
≈ mag 3 · easyTrain · 11
7:56 pmto 8:21 pm · 26 min
W → ENE, highest 46° Nappears west at 12°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 3 · easyTrain · 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 Laredo
Laredo is at 27.5°N. Tonight the sky is dark enough from 7:41 pm until 7:10 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); 16 of them should be easy to spot (estimated magnitude 4 or brighter).
The best one is on Monday, Oct 12 at 7:43 pm: it appears in the west-southwest, climbs to 83° in the west-southwest and fades in the east-northeast at about magnitude 2.
The passes come from these launches:
2026-225, launched 28 September 2026 (train, 26 satellites, now 296–316 km up): 20 passes here
Satellites from launch 2026-219 (20 September 2026) are also low and bright, but they do not pass over Laredo while it is dark and they are sunlit in this period.
Questions
Can I see Starlink tonight in Laredo?
No visible passes tonight. Next good chance: Friday, Oct 9 at 7:54 pm, looking south-southwest.
When is the next Starlink train over Laredo?
Thursday, Oct 8 at 7:50 pm: 15 satellites from launch 2026-225, appearing in the south-southeast and reaching 13°.
Which direction should I look for Starlink from Laredo?
This week most passes appear in the west or 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: Sunday, Oct 11 at 7:03 am, looking south-southwest. The space station is far brighter than Starlink satellites, so it is often the easier thing to spot.