Satellites Tonight

Can I see Starlink tonight in Torrance, CA?

No visible passes tonight.

Next good chance: Sunday, Oct 11 at 7:35 pm, looking southwest.

Updated Times in local time (PDT)33.84°, -118.34°
Next pass · Sunday, Oct 11
Appears
7:35 pm
southwest, 11°
Highest
7:37 pm
22° south-southeast
Fades
7:37 pm
south-southeast, 22°
NESW
≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 1 satellitesLaunch 2026-225 · 28 September 2026

The next 8 nights at a glance

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

Pass times, night by night

start · path · brightness

Tonight · Wednesday, Oct 7

dark 6:55 pm – 6:28 am
No visible passes tonight.

Thursday, Oct 8 – Friday, Oct 9

no visible passes

Saturday, Oct 10

dark 6:51 pm – 6:30 am
7:20 pmto 7:22 pm · 2 min
S → SSE, highest 13° SSEappears south at 11°, low at the top
≈ mag 5 · faintTrain · 1
7:30 pmto 7:32 pm · 2 min
SSW → SSE, highest 15° SSEappears south-southwest at 11°, low at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 1
7:44 pmto 8:01 pm · 17 min
SSW → S, highest 17° Sappears south-southwest at 11°, low at the top
≈ mag 5 · faintTrain · 21

Sunday, Oct 11

dark 6:50 pm – 6:31 am
7:09 pmto 7:12 pm · 3 min
SSW → SE, highest 16° SSEappears south-southwest at 11°, low at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 2
7:35 pmto 7:37 pm · 2 min
SW → SSE, highest 22° SSEappears southwest at 11°, low at the top
≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 1
7:47 pmto 7:49 pm · 2 min
SW → SSW, highest 22° SSWappears southwest at 12°, low at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 1
8:03 pmto 8:19 pm · 15 min
SW → SW, highest 19° SWappears southwest at 11°, low at the top
≈ mag 5 · faintTrain · 18

Monday, Oct 12

dark 6:48 pm – 6:31 am
6:48 pmto 7:09 pm · 22 min
SSE → ESE, highest 24° SSEappears south-southeast at 18°, low at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 21
7:15 pmto 7:18 pm · 3 min
SW → SE, highest 23° Sappears southwest at 10°, low at the top
≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 2
7:51 pmto 7:53 pm · 2 min
SW → SSW, highest 26° SSWappears southwest at 12°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 1

Tuesday, Oct 13

dark 6:47 pm – 6:32 am
6:49 pmto 6:53 pm · 5 min
SW → ESE, highest 27° Sappears southwest at 12°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 1
6:56 pmto 7:31 pm · 35 min
SW → ESE, highest 36° Sappears southwest at 10°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 3.5 · easyTrain · 24

Wednesday, Oct 14

dark 6:46 pm – 6:33 am
6:50 pmto 6:55 pm · 5 min
WSW → ESE, highest 34° Sappears west-southwest at 11°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 3.5 · easyTrain · 1
7:06 pmto 7:25 pm · 18 min
WSW → ESE, highest 39° Sappears west-southwest at 11°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 3.5 · easyTrain · 11
7:27 pmto 7:53 pm · 25 min
WSW → SSE, highest 41° Sappears west-southwest at 11°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 3 · easyTrain · 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 Torrance

Torrance is at 33.8°N. Tonight the sky is dark enough from 6:55 pm until 6:28 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 15 visible passes (15 in the evening, 0 before dawn); 7 of them should be easy to spot (estimated magnitude 4 or brighter).

The best one is on Wednesday, Oct 14 at 7:27 pm: it appears in the west-southwest, climbs to 41° in the south and fades in the south-southeast at about magnitude 3.

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

Questions

Can I see Starlink tonight in Torrance?

No visible passes tonight. Next good chance: Sunday, Oct 11 at 7:35 pm, looking southwest.

When is the next Starlink train over Torrance?

Saturday, Oct 10 at 7:20 pm: 1 satellites from launch 2026-225, appearing in the south and reaching 13°.

Which direction should I look for Starlink from Torrance?

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 California →
Inglewood 14 kmLong Beach 16 kmDowney 22 kmNorwalk 25 kmLos Angeles 26 kmEast Los Angeles 26 km

Also tonight: the ISS

ISS pass times for Torrance →

No visible pass of the International Space Station tonight. Next chance: Monday, Oct 12 at 5:52 am, looking south. The space station is far brighter than Starlink satellites, so it is often the easier thing to spot.

Before you go out

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