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Can I see Starlink tonight in Pinehurst, NC?

No visible passes tonight.

Next good chance: Monday, Oct 12 at 7:59 pm, looking southwest.

Updated Times in local time (EDT)35.20°, -79.47°
Next pass · Monday, Oct 12
Appears
7:59 pm
southwest, 10°
Highest
8:02 pm
22° south-southeast
Fades
8:02 pm
south-southeast, 22°
NESW
≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 1 satellitesLaunch 2026-225 · 28 September 2026

The next 8 nights at a glance

11 visible passes
dark skytraineasy (mag ≤ 3.5)moderate (≤ 4)faint (≤ 5)

Pass times, night by night

start · path · brightness

Tonight · Wednesday, Oct 7

dark 7:19 pm – 6:52 am
No visible passes tonight.

Thursday, Oct 8 – Saturday, Oct 10

no visible passes

Sunday, Oct 11

dark 7:14 pm – 6:56 am
7:42 pmto 7:45 pm · 2 min
SSW → SSE, highest 14° SSEappears south-southwest at 11°, low at the top
≈ mag 5 · faintTrain · 1
7:58 pmto 8:22 pm · 23 min
SSW → S, highest 18° Sappears south-southwest at 11°, low at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 22

Monday, Oct 12

dark 7:13 pm – 6:56 am
7:12 pmto 7:14 pm · 3 min
SSE → SE, highest 13° SSEappears south-southeast at 12°, low at the top
≈ mag 5 · faintTrain · 2
7:34 pmto 7:37 pm · 3 min
SSW → SE, highest 17° SSEappears south-southwest at 11°, low at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 1
7:59 pmto 8:02 pm · 2 min
SW → SSE, highest 22° SSEappears southwest at 10°, low at the top
≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 1
8:18 pmto 8:43 pm · 25 min
SW → SSW, highest 22° SSWappears southwest at 10°, low at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 21

Tuesday, Oct 13

dark 7:11 pm – 6:57 am
7:11 pmto 7:33 pm · 23 min
SSE → ESE, highest 23° Sappears south-southeast at 19°, low at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 21
7:46 pmto 7:49 pm · 3 min
SW → SSE, highest 24° Sappears southwest at 11°, low at the top
≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 1
8:18 pmto 8:19 pm · 2 min
WSW → SW, highest 22° SWappears west-southwest at 11°, low at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 1

Wednesday, Oct 14

dark 7:10 pm – 6:58 am
7:19 pmto 7:55 pm · 36 min
SW → ESE, highest 30° Sappears southwest at 11°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 24
7:59 pmto 8:02 pm · 2 min
WSW → S, highest 29° Sappears west-southwest at 10°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 1

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 Pinehurst

Pinehurst is at 35.2°N. Tonight the sky is dark enough from 7:19 pm until 6:52 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 11 visible passes (11 in the evening, 0 before dawn); 4 of them should be easy to spot (estimated magnitude 4 or brighter).

The best one is on Wednesday, Oct 14 at 7:19 pm: it appears in the southwest, climbs to 30° in the south and fades in the east-southeast at about magnitude 4.

The passes come from these launches:

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

Questions

Can I see Starlink tonight in Pinehurst?

No visible passes tonight. Next good chance: Monday, Oct 12 at 7:59 pm, looking southwest.

When is the next Starlink train over Pinehurst?

Sunday, Oct 11 at 7:42 pm: 1 satellites from launch 2026-225, appearing in the south-southwest and reaching 14°.

Which direction should I look for Starlink from Pinehurst?

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

Nearby cities

All of North Carolina →
Fayetteville 56 kmCary 91 kmHigh Point 97 kmRaleigh 99 kmBurlington 100 kmGreensboro 102 km

Before you go out

How to spot StarlinkWhat the Starlink train isWhy some nights have nothing