dark skytraineasy (mag ≤ 3.5)moderate (≤ 4)faint (≤ 5)
Pass times, night by night
start · path · brightness
Tonight · Wednesday, Oct 7
dark 6:23 pm – 5:55 am
No visible passes tonight.
Thursday, Oct 8
no visible passes
Friday, Oct 9
dark 6:21 pm – 5:56 am
6:58 pmto 7:00 pm · 1 min
S → SSE, highest 13° SSEappears south at 10°, low at the top
≈ mag 5 · faintTrain · 2
7:08 pmto 7:09 pm · 1 min
SSW → S, highest 14° Sappears south-southwest at 11°, low at the top
≈ mag 5 · faintTrain · 1
Saturday, Oct 10
dark 6:20 pm – 5:57 am
6:19 pmto 6:30 pm · 12 min
S → SE, highest 14° SSEappears south at 12°, low at the top
≈ mag 5 · faintTrain · 19
7:04 pmto 7:06 pm · 2 min
SSW → S, highest 22° Sappears south-southwest at 11°, low at the top
≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 2
7:21 pmto 7:22 pm · 1 min
SW → SSW, highest 22° SSWappears southwest at 10°, low at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 1
7:31 pmto 7:32 pm · 1 min
SW → SW, highest 20° SWappears southwest at 11°, low at the top
≈ mag 5 · faintTrain · 1
Sunday, Oct 11
dark 6:19 pm – 5:57 am
6:29 pmto 6:48 pm · 19 min
SW → ESE, highest 29° SSEappears southwest at 11°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 22
7:10 pmto 7:12 pm · 2 min
SW → SSW, highest 32° SSWappears southwest at 10°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 3.5 · easyTrain · 2
7:36 pmto 7:37 pm · 1 min
WSW → WSW, highest 20° WSWappears west-southwest at 10°, low at the top
≈ mag 5 · faintTrain · 1
Monday, Oct 12
dark 6:17 pm – 5:58 am
6:17 pmto 6:22 pm · 5 min
SW → E, highest 30° SSEappears southwest at 12°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 1
6:31 pmto 6:36 pm · 4 min
SW → ESE, highest 36° Sappears southwest at 11°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 3.5 · easyTrain · 1
6:45 pmto 7:09 pm · 24 min
WSW → ESE, highest 52° Sappears west-southwest at 11°, high at the top
≈ mag 3 · easyTrain · 22
7:16 pmto 7:18 pm · 2 min
WSW → SW, highest 37° SWappears west-southwest at 11°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 3.5 · easyTrain · 2
Tuesday, Oct 13
dark 6:16 pm – 5:59 am
6:34 pmto 6:38 pm · 4 min
WSW → E, highest 51° Sappears west-southwest at 10°, high at the top
≈ mag 3 · easyTrain · 1
6:50 pmto 6:54 pm · 4 min
WSW → ESE, highest 58° Sappears west-southwest at 12°, high at the top
≈ mag 3 · easyTrain · 1
6:57 pmto 7:31 pm · 34 min
WSW → SE, highest 65° SSWappears west-southwest at 10°, high at the top
≈ mag 2.5 · brightTrain · 24
Wednesday, Oct 14
dark 6:15 pm – 5:59 am
6:14 pmto 6:21 pm · 7 min
ESE → E, highest 57° Sappears east-southeast at 38°, high at the top
≈ mag 3 · easyTrain · 4
6:52 pmto 6:55 pm · 3 min
W → ESE, highest 68° SSWappears west at 12°, high at the top
≈ mag 2.5 · brightTrain · 1
7:08 pmto 7:25 pm · 17 min
W → SW, highest 63° SWappears west at 11°, high at the top
≈ mag 3 · easyTrain · 11
7:29 pmto 7:53 pm · 24 min
W → W, highest 27° Wappears west at 11°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 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 Sierra Vista
Sierra Vista is at 31.6°N. Tonight the sky is dark enough from 6:23 pm until 5:55 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); 13 of them should be easy to spot (estimated magnitude 4 or brighter).
The best one is on Wednesday, Oct 14 at 6:52 pm: it appears in the west, climbs to 68° in the south-southwest and fades in the east-southeast at about magnitude 2.5.
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 Sierra Vista while it is dark and they are sunlit in this period.
Questions
Can I see Starlink tonight in Sierra Vista?
No visible passes tonight. Next good chance: Saturday, Oct 10 at 7:04 pm, looking south-southwest.
When is the next Starlink train over Sierra Vista?
Friday, Oct 9 at 6:58 pm: 2 satellites from launch 2026-225, appearing in the south and reaching 13°.
Which direction should I look for Starlink from Sierra Vista?
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.
No visible pass of the International Space Station tonight. Next chance: Saturday, Oct 10 at 5:51 am, looking south-southeast. The space station is far brighter than Starlink satellites, so it is often the easier thing to spot.