Can I see Starlink tonight in Metairie, LA?

No visible passes tonight.

Next good chance: Saturday, Oct 10 at 7:31 pm, looking southwest.

Updated 7 Oct 2026, 16:02 UTCTimes in local time (CDT)29.98°, -90.15°

Next pass · Saturday, Oct 10

Appears

7:31 pm

southwest, 11°

Highest

7:35 pm

25° south-southeast

Fades

7:35 pm

south-southeast, 24°

≈ mag 3.5 · easyTrain · 2 satellitesLaunch 2026-225 · 28 September 2026

The next 8 nights at a glance

21 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 7:03 pm – 6:34 am

No visible passes tonight.

Thursday, Oct 8

no visible passes

Friday, Oct 9

dark 7:01 pm – 6:35 am

7:26 pmto 7:29 pm · 3 min

S → SSE, highest 14° SSEappears south at 11°, low at the top

≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 2

7:33 pmto 7:35 pm · 2 min

SSW → SSE, highest 16° SSEappears south-southwest at 11°, low at the top

≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 1

7:43 pmto 7:45 pm · 2 min

SSW → SSE, highest 19° SSEappears south-southwest at 11°, low at the top

≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 1

7:56 pmto 8:16 pm · 20 min

SSW → SSW, highest 20° Sappears south-southwest at 12°, low at the top

≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 20

Saturday, Oct 10

dark 7:00 pm – 6:36 am

6:59 pmto 7:03 pm · 4 min

SE → ESE, highest 16° SSEappears southeast at 15°, low at the top

≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 5

7:31 pmto 7:35 pm · 3 min

SW → SSE, highest 25° SSEappears southwest at 11°, halfway up at the top

≈ mag 3.5 · easyTrain · 2

7:43 pmto 7:45 pm · 2 min

SW → S, highest 30° Sappears southwest at 12°, halfway up at the top

≈ mag 3.5 · easyTrain · 1

7:58 pmto 8:00 pm · 2 min

SW → SSW, highest 31° SSWappears southwest at 11°, halfway up at the top

≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 1

8:12 pmto 8:31 pm · 18 min

WSW → SW, highest 22° SWappears west-southwest at 12°, low at the top

≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 10

Sunday, Oct 11

dark 6:59 pm – 6:36 am

6:58 pmto 7:22 pm · 24 min

SSE → ESE, highest 35° SSEappears south-southeast at 25°, halfway up at the top

≈ mag 3.5 · easyTrain · 22

7:36 pmto 7:40 pm · 4 min

WSW → SSE, highest 44° SSEappears west-southwest at 12°, halfway up at the top

≈ mag 3 · easyTrain · 2

7:54 pmto 7:56 pm · 2 min

WSW → SW, highest 39° SWappears west-southwest at 12°, halfway up at the top

≈ mag 3.5 · easyTrain · 1

8:14 pmto 8:16 pm · 1 min

WSW → WSW, highest 21° WSWappears west-southwest at 11°, low at the top

≈ mag 5 · faintTrain · 1

Monday, Oct 12

dark 6:58 pm – 6:37 am

6:57 pmto 7:02 pm · 5 min

SW → E, highest 41° SSEappears southwest at 13°, halfway up at the top

≈ mag 3.5 · easyTrain · 1

7:15 pmto 7:46 pm · 31 min

WSW → E, highest 69° SSWappears west-southwest at 12°, high at the top

≈ mag 2.5 · brightTrain · 24

8:06 pmto 8:08 pm · 2 min

W → W, highest 30° Wappears west at 12°, halfway up at the top

≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 1

Tuesday, Oct 13

dark 6:56 pm – 6:37 am

7:15 pmto 7:19 pm · 4 min

WSW → E, highest 74° SSWappears west-southwest at 10°, high at the top

≈ mag 2.5 · brightTrain · 1

7:35 pmto 8:05 pm · 29 min

W → E, highest 89° ENEappears west at 11°, almost overhead at the top

≈ mag 2.5 · brightTrain · 24

Wednesday, Oct 14

dark 6:55 pm – 6:38 am

6:57 pmto 7:02 pm · 5 min

W → E, highest 80° ESEappears west at 11°, almost overhead at the top

≈ mag 2.5 · brightTrain · 1

7:33 pmto 7:36 pm · 3 min

W → ENE, highest 78° NWappears west at 10°, almost overhead at the top

≈ mag 2.5 · brightTrain · 1

7:52 pmto 8:26 pm · 35 min

W → WNW, highest 50° WNWappears west at 13°, high at the top

≈ mag 3 · easyTrain · 24

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 Metairie

Metairie is at 30.0°N. Tonight the sky is dark enough from 7:03 pm until 6:34 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 21 visible passes (21 in the evening, 0 before dawn); 14 of them should be easy to spot (estimated magnitude 4 or brighter).

The best one is on Tuesday, Oct 13 at 7:35 pm: it appears in the west, climbs to 89° in the east-northeast and fades in the east at about magnitude 2.5.

The passes come from these launches:

2026-225, launched 28 September 2026 (train, 26 satellites, now 296–315 km up): 21 passes here

Satellites from launch 2026-219 (20 September 2026) are also low and bright, but they do not pass over Metairie while it is dark and they are sunlit in this period.

Questions

Can I see Starlink tonight in Metairie?

No visible passes tonight. Next good chance: Saturday, Oct 10 at 7:31 pm, looking southwest.

When is the next Starlink train over Metairie?

Friday, Oct 9 at 7:26 pm: 2 satellites from launch 2026-225, appearing in the south and reaching 14°.

Which direction should I look for Starlink from Metairie?

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

Nearby cities

All of Louisiana →

New Orleans 8 km Slidell 48 km Hammond 65 km Houma 70 km Gulfport 110 km Baton Rouge 112 km

Before you go out

How to spot Starlink What the Starlink train is Why some nights have nothing