Satellites Tonight

Can I see Starlink tonight in Pompano Beach, FL?

No visible passes tonight.

Next good chance: Friday, Oct 9 at 7:22 pm, looking south-southwest.

Updated Times in local time (EDT)26.24°, -80.12°
Also tonight over Pompano Beach
Next pass · Friday, Oct 9
Appears
7:22 pm
south-southwest, 11°
Highest
7:46 pm
26° south-southeast
Fades
7:47 pm
east-southeast, 11°
NESW
≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 22 satellitesLaunch 2026-225 · 28 September 2026

The next 8 nights at a glance

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

Pass times, night by night

start · path · brightness

Tonight · Wednesday, Oct 7

dark 7:24 pm – 6:53 am
No visible passes tonight.

Thursday, Oct 8

dark 7:23 pm – 6:53 am
7:26 pmto 7:34 pm · 8 min
SSE → SE, highest 12° SSEappears south-southeast at 10°, low at the top
≈ mag 5 · faintTrain · 7
8:22 pmto 8:27 pm · 5 min
SW → SSW, highest 18° SSWappears southwest at 12°, low at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 3

Friday, Oct 9

dark 7:22 pm – 6:53 am
7:22 pmto 7:47 pm · 25 min
SSW → ESE, highest 26° SSEappears south-southwest at 11°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 22
8:28 pmto 8:29 pm · 2 min
WSW → WSW, highest 20° WSWappears west-southwest at 12°, low at the top
≈ mag 5 · faintTrain · 2

Saturday, Oct 10

dark 7:21 pm – 6:54 am
7:25 pmto 7:30 pm · 5 min
SW → E, highest 36° SSEappears southwest at 10°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 3.5 · easyTrain · 1
7:39 pmto 8:00 pm · 21 min
SW → E, highest 64° Sappears southwest at 10°, high at the top
≈ mag 2.5 · brightTrain · 22
8:34 pmto 8:36 pm · 1 min
W → W, highest 20° Wappears west at 11°, low at the top
≈ mag 5 · faintTrain · 2

Sunday, Oct 11

dark 7:20 pm – 6:54 am
7:30 pmto 7:35 pm · 5 min
WSW → ENE, highest 74° SSEappears west-southwest at 11°, high at the top
≈ mag 2.5 · brightTrain · 1
7:42 pmto 7:47 pm · 4 min
WSW → ENE, highest 81° ENEappears west-southwest at 12°, almost overhead at the top
≈ mag 2.5 · brightTrain · 1
7:59 pmto 8:17 pm · 18 min
W → NE, highest 71° Nappears west at 12°, high at the top
≈ mag 2.5 · brightTrain · 22

Monday, Oct 12

dark 7:19 pm – 6:55 am
7:47 pmto 7:51 pm · 4 min
W → NE, highest 53° Nappears west at 11°, high at the top
≈ mag 3 · easyTrain · 1
8:01 pmto 8:04 pm · 3 min
W → N, highest 46° NNWappears west at 10°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 3.5 · easyTrain · 1
8:15 pmto 8:38 pm · 22 min
W → NW, highest 36° NWappears west at 11°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 22

Tuesday, Oct 13

dark 7:18 pm – 6:55 am
7:17 pmto 7:28 pm · 11 min
NW → ENE, highest 56° Nappears northwest at 52°, high at the top
≈ mag 3 · easyTrain · 10
8:04 pmto 8:07 pm · 3 min
WNW → N, highest 35° NNWappears west-northwest at 11°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 3.5 · easyTrain · 1
8:20 pmto 8:23 pm · 2 min
WNW → NNW, highest 29° NNWappears west-northwest at 10°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 1
8:29 pmto 8:47 pm · 19 min
WNW → NW, highest 21° NWappears west-northwest at 12°, low at the top
≈ mag 5 · faintTrain · 14

Wednesday, Oct 14

dark 7:17 pm – 6:56 am
7:17 pmto 7:23 pm · 6 min
NE → ENE, highest 38° NNWappears northeast at 22°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 3.5 · easyTrain · 4
7:24 pmto 7:50 pm · 26 min
WNW → ENE, highest 37° Nappears west-northwest at 11°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 3.5 · easyTrain · 14
8:22 pmto 8:24 pm · 1 min
WNW → NW, highest 22° NWappears west-northwest at 11°, low at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 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.

No visible pass of the International Space Station tonight. Next chance: Sunday, Oct 11 at 6:30 am, looking south. The space station is far brighter than Starlink satellites, so it is often the easier thing to spot.

Tiangong, China's space station

5 visible passes in 8 nights

No visible pass of Tiangong over Pompano Beach tonight. Next: Sunday, Oct 11 at 6:11 am. It orbits about 386 km up, tilted 41.5° to the equator, and looks like a bright, steady star gliding across the sky.

NightAppearsLookHighestMag ≈
Sunday, Oct 116:11 amnorth-northeast10° NNE1
Monday, Oct 126:47 amnorth-northwest27° NNE0
Tuesday, Oct 135:50 amnorth16° NNE0.5
Wednesday, Oct 146:26 amnorthwest59° NNE-2
Thursday, Oct 155:30 ameast-northeast22° ENE1.5

Local time. Brightness is a rough estimate (±1 magnitude; lower is brighter). How we compute this.

Seeing Starlink from Pompano Beach

Pompano Beach is at 26.2°N. Tonight the sky is dark enough from 7:24 pm until 6:53 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); 14 of them should be easy to spot (estimated magnitude 4 or brighter).

The best one is on Sunday, Oct 11 at 7:42 pm: it appears in the west-southwest, climbs to 81° in the east-northeast and fades in the east-northeast at about magnitude 2.5.

The nearest city on our list with a good Starlink pass tonight is Spanish Town, about 973 km away, at 6:13 pm local time. Passes shift a long way over that distance, so use its times only as a rough guide.

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 Pompano Beach while it is dark and they are sunlit in this period.

Questions

Can I see Starlink tonight in Pompano Beach?

No visible passes tonight. Next good chance: Friday, Oct 9 at 7:22 pm, looking south-southwest.

When is the next Starlink train over Pompano Beach?

Thursday, Oct 8 at 7:26 pm: 7 satellites from launch 2026-225, appearing in the south-southeast and reaching 12°.

Which direction should I look for Starlink from Pompano Beach?

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

Nearby cities

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