dark skytraineasy (mag ≤ 3.5)moderate (≤ 4)faint (≤ 5)
Pass times, night by night
start · path · brightness
Tonight · Wednesday, Oct 7
dark 6:47 pm – 6:19 am
No visible passes tonight.
Thursday, Oct 8 – Friday, Oct 9
no visible passes
Saturday, Oct 10
dark 6:43 pm – 6:21 am
6:43 pmto 7:03 pm · 20 min
S → SE, highest 14° SSEappears south at 10°, low at the top
≈ mag 5 · faintTrain · 20
7:32 pmto 7:35 pm · 2 min
SSW → S, highest 17° Sappears south-southwest at 11°, low at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 2
7:44 pmto 7:45 pm · 1 min
SW → SSW, highest 17° SSWappears southwest at 10°, low at the top
≈ mag 5 · faintTrain · 1
Sunday, Oct 11
dark 6:42 pm – 6:22 am
6:42 pmto 6:44 pm · 3 min
S → ESE, highest 17° SSEappears south at 16°, low at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 1
6:56 pmto 7:22 pm · 25 min
SSW → ESE, highest 27° SSEappears south-southwest at 10°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 22
7:37 pmto 7:40 pm · 3 min
SW → SSW, highest 24° SSWappears southwest at 11°, low at the top
≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 2
Monday, Oct 12
dark 6:41 pm – 6:22 am
6:58 pmto 7:02 pm · 4 min
SW → ESE, highest 30° SSEappears southwest at 12°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 1
7:16 pmto 7:46 pm · 30 min
SW → SE, highest 42° Sappears southwest at 11°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 3 · easyTrain · 24
Tuesday, Oct 13
dark 6:40 pm – 6:23 am
6:44 pmto 6:49 pm · 5 min
WSW → ESE, highest 35° SSEappears west-southwest at 10°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 3.5 · easyTrain · 1
7:16 pmto 7:19 pm · 3 min
WSW → SE, highest 47° Sappears west-southwest at 12°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 3 · easyTrain · 1
7:36 pmto 8:05 pm · 28 min
WSW → SSW, highest 47° SSWappears west-southwest at 11°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 3.5 · easyTrain · 24
Wednesday, Oct 14
dark 6:39 pm – 6:24 am
6:38 pmto 6:55 pm · 17 min
SW → E, highest 49° SSEappears southwest at 26°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 3 · easyTrain · 10
6:58 pmto 7:02 pm · 4 min
WSW → ESE, highest 51° Sappears west-southwest at 11°, high at the top
≈ mag 3 · easyTrain · 1
7:34 pmto 7:36 pm · 2 min
WSW → SW, highest 52° SWappears west-southwest at 11°, high at the top
≈ mag 3 · easyTrain · 1
7:52 pmto 8:15 pm · 23 min
W → WSW, highest 24° WSWappears west at 11°, low at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 17
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 Montgomery
Montgomery is at 32.4°N. Tonight the sky is dark enough from 6:47 pm until 6:19 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 15 visible passes (15 in the evening, 0 before dawn); 10 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 west-southwest, climbs to 52° in the southwest and fades in the southwest at about magnitude 3.
The passes come from these launches:
2026-225, launched 28 September 2026 (train, 26 satellites, now 296–315 km up): 15 passes here
Satellites from launch 2026-219 (20 September 2026) are also low and bright, but they do not pass over Montgomery while it is dark and they are sunlit in this period.
Questions
Can I see Starlink tonight in Montgomery?
No visible passes tonight. Next good chance: Sunday, Oct 11 at 6:56 pm, looking south-southwest.
When is the next Starlink train over Montgomery?
Saturday, Oct 10 at 6:43 pm: 20 satellites from launch 2026-225, appearing in the south and reaching 14°.
Which direction should I look for Starlink from Montgomery?
This week most passes appear in the southwest or west-southwest. Each pass above lists where it appears, how high it climbs and where it fades.