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Can I see Starlink tonight in Virginia Beach, VA?

No visible passes tonight.

Next chance, faint: Monday, Oct 12 at 7:15 pm, looking south.

Updated Times in local time (EDT)36.85°, -75.98°
Next pass · Monday, Oct 12
Appears
7:15 pm
south, 10°
Highest
7:16 pm
12° south-southeast
Fades
7:17 pm
south-southeast, 11°
NESW
≈ mag 5 · faintTrain · 2 satellitesLaunch 2026-225 · 28 September 2026

The next 8 nights at a glance

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

Pass times, night by night

start · path · brightness

Tonight · Wednesday, Oct 7

dark 7:05 pm – 6:39 am
No visible passes tonight.

Thursday, Oct 8 – Sunday, Oct 11

no visible passes

Monday, Oct 12

dark 6:58 pm – 6:43 am
7:15 pmto 7:17 pm · 2 min
S → SSE, highest 12° SSEappears south at 10°, low at the top
≈ mag 5 · faintTrain · 2
7:49 pmto 7:51 pm · 2 min
SSW → S, highest 16° Sappears south-southwest at 11°, low at the top
≈ mag 5 · faintTrain · 1

Tuesday, Oct 13

dark 6:56 pm – 6:44 am
6:56 pmto 7:28 pm · 33 min
S → SE, highest 19° Sappears south at 12°, low at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 24
8:06 pmto 8:07 pm · 1 min
SW → SSW, highest 17° SSWappears southwest at 11°, low at the top
≈ mag 5 · faintTrain · 1

Wednesday, Oct 14

dark 6:55 pm – 6:45 am
7:04 pmto 7:23 pm · 18 min
SW → SE, highest 20° Sappears southwest at 11°, low at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 11
7:25 pmto 7:50 pm · 24 min
SW → SSE, highest 23° Sappears southwest at 11°, low 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 Virginia Beach

Virginia Beach is at 36.9°N. Tonight the sky is dark enough from 7:05 pm until 6:39 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 6 visible passes (6 in the evening, 0 before dawn); 0 of them should be easy to spot (estimated magnitude 4 or brighter).

The best one is on Wednesday, Oct 14 at 7:25 pm: it appears in the southwest, climbs to 23° in the south and fades in the south-southeast at about magnitude 4.5.

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

Questions

Can I see Starlink tonight in Virginia Beach?

No visible passes tonight. Next chance, faint: Monday, Oct 12 at 7:15 pm, looking south.

When is the next Starlink train over Virginia Beach?

Monday, Oct 12 at 7:15 pm: 2 satellites from launch 2026-225, appearing in the south and reaching 12°.

Which direction should I look for Starlink from Virginia Beach?

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

Nearby cities

All of Virginia →

No visible pass of the International Space Station tonight. Next chance: Sunday, Oct 11 at 6:33 am, looking south-southeast. The space station is far brighter than Starlink satellites, so it is often the easier thing to spot.

Before you go out