dark skytraineasy (mag ≤ 3.5)moderate (≤ 4)faint (≤ 5)
Pass times, night by night
start · path · brightness
Tonight · Wednesday, Oct 7
dark 7:23 pm – 6:54 am
No visible passes tonight.
Thursday, Oct 8
no visible passes
Friday, Oct 9
dark 7:21 pm – 6:55 am
7:36 pmto 7:38 pm · 2 min
S → SE, highest 13° SSEappears south at 10°, low at the top
≈ mag 5 · faintTrain · 1
7:43 pmto 7:46 pm · 3 min
S → SE, highest 15° SSEappears south at 11°, low at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 1
7:55 pmto 8:18 pm · 23 min
SSW → SSE, highest 22° Sappears south-southwest at 11°, low at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 22
Saturday, Oct 10
dark 7:20 pm – 6:56 am
7:32 pmto 7:36 pm · 4 min
SSW → ESE, highest 20° SSEappears south-southwest at 11°, low at the top
≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 2
7:48 pmto 7:51 pm · 3 min
SW → SE, highest 27° SSEappears southwest at 12°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 1
7:58 pmto 8:01 pm · 3 min
SW → SSE, highest 31° SSEappears southwest at 12°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 3.5 · easyTrain · 1
8:12 pmto 8:31 pm · 18 min
SW → SSW, highest 35° SSWappears southwest at 11°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 3.5 · easyTrain · 22
Sunday, Oct 11
dark 7:19 pm – 6:56 am
7:38 pmto 7:42 pm · 4 min
SW → ESE, highest 35° SSEappears southwest at 11°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 3 · easyTrain · 2
8:03 pmto 8:06 pm · 3 min
WSW → SSE, highest 53° SSEappears west-southwest at 11°, high at the top
≈ mag 2.5 · brightTrain · 1
8:15 pmto 8:18 pm · 2 min
WSW → SW, highest 46° SWappears west-southwest at 12°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 3.5 · easyTrain · 1
8:32 pmto 8:48 pm · 16 min
WSW → WSW, highest 26° WSWappears west-southwest at 11°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 22
Monday, Oct 12
dark 7:18 pm – 6:57 am
7:17 pmto 7:38 pm · 21 min
SW → E, highest 55° Sappears southwest at 18°, high at the top
≈ mag 3 · easyTrain · 21
7:44 pmto 7:48 pm · 4 min
WSW → E, highest 63° SSEappears west-southwest at 12°, high at the top
≈ mag 2.5 · brightTrain · 2
8:20 pmto 8:22 pm · 2 min
W → W, highest 41° Wappears west at 12°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 3.5 · easyTrain · 1
8:34 pmto 8:36 pm · 1 min
W → W, highest 25° Wappears west at 10°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 1
Tuesday, Oct 13
dark 7:17 pm – 6:57 am
7:17 pmto 7:23 pm · 6 min
WSW → E, highest 67° SEappears west-southwest at 12°, high at the top
≈ mag 2.5 · brightTrain · 1
7:25 pmto 8:00 pm · 35 min
WSW → E, highest 87° SSEappears west-southwest at 12°, almost overhead at the top
≈ mag 2 · brightTrain · 24
Wednesday, Oct 14
dark 7:16 pm – 6:58 am
7:19 pmto 7:24 pm · 5 min
W → E, highest 86° NEappears west at 11°, almost overhead at the top
≈ mag 2.5 · brightTrain · 1
7:35 pmto 7:54 pm · 19 min
W → E, highest 78° Nappears west at 12°, almost overhead at the top
≈ mag 2.5 · brightTrain · 11
7:57 pmto 8:21 pm · 25 min
W → ENE, highest 73° NNWappears west at 12°, high at the top
≈ mag 2.5 · brightTrain · 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 Pasadena
Pasadena is at 29.7°N. Tonight the sky is dark enough from 7:23 pm until 6:54 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); 15 of them should be easy to spot (estimated magnitude 4 or brighter).
The best one is on Tuesday, Oct 13 at 7:25 pm: it appears in the west-southwest, climbs to 87° in the south-southeast and fades in the east 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 Pasadena while it is dark and they are sunlit in this period.
Questions
Can I see Starlink tonight in Pasadena?
No visible passes tonight. Next good chance: Saturday, Oct 10 at 7:32 pm, looking south-southwest.
When is the next Starlink train over Pasadena?
Friday, Oct 9 at 7:36 pm: 1 satellites from launch 2026-225, appearing in the south and reaching 13°.
Which direction should I look for Starlink from Pasadena?
This week most passes appear in the west-southwest 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: Monday, Oct 12 at 6:17 am, looking south. The space station is far brighter than Starlink satellites, so it is often the easier thing to spot.