Can I see Starlink tonight in Portland, OR?
No visible passes tonight.
None of the recently launched satellites passes over Portland in darkness in the next 7 nights.
The next 8 nights at a glance
0 visible passesPass times, night by night
start · path · brightnessTonight · Wednesday, Oct 7
dark 7:09 pm – 6:48 amThursday, Oct 8 – Wednesday, Oct 14
no visible passesMagnitude 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.
The ISS tonight
ISS pass times for Portland →No visible pass of the International Space Station tonight. Next chance: Tuesday, Oct 13 at 6:43 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
7 visible passes in 8 nightsYes · 5:58 am, look southwest. Tiangong orbits about 386 km up, tilted 41.5° to the equator. It looks like a bright, steady star gliding across the sky, fainter than the ISS but easy to see without a telescope.
| Night | Appears | Highest | Mag ≈ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thursday, Oct 8 | 5:58 am | 38° S | -1.5 |
| Friday, Oct 9 | 5:02 am | 17° ESE | 1.5 |
| Friday, Oct 9 | 6:34 am | 27° SSW | -1 |
| Saturday, Oct 10 | 5:38 am | 31° SSE | -1 |
| Sunday, Oct 11 | 6:14 am | 20° SSW | -1 |
| Monday, Oct 12 | 5:18 am | 15° SE | 0.5 |
| Tuesday, Oct 13 | 5:54 am | 12° S | 0 |
Local time. Brightness is a rough estimate (±1 magnitude; lower is brighter). How we compute this.
Seeing Starlink from Portland
Portland is at 45.5°N. Tonight the sky is dark enough from 7:09 pm until 6:48 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 none of the recently launched satellites passes over in darkness.
The nearest city on our list with a good Starlink pass tonight is Prince George, about 933 km away, at 5:12 am local time. Passes shift a long way over that distance, so use its times only as a rough guide.
Satellites from launch 2026-225 (28 September 2026) are also low and bright, but they do not pass over Portland while it is dark and they are sunlit in this period.
No train is visible this week. A train is only a train for about the first 10 days after a launch; here is why some weeks have nothing.
Questions
Can I see Starlink tonight in Portland?
No visible passes tonight. None of the recently launched satellites passes over Portland in darkness in the next 7 nights.
When is the next Starlink train over Portland?
There is no train pass over Portland in the next 8 nights. Trains are only visible for about 10 days after a launch; the latest launch in our data is 2026-225 on 28 September 2026.