Satellites Tonight

Can I see Starlink tonight in Wilmington, NC?

No visible passes tonight.

Next good chance: Monday, Oct 12 at 7:48 pm, looking southwest.

Updated Times in local time (EDT)34.24°, -77.95°
Next pass · Monday, Oct 12
Appears
7:48 pm
southwest, 12°
Highest
7:50 pm
25° south
Fades
7:51 pm
south-southeast, 25°
NESW
≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 1 satellitesLaunch 2026-225 · 28 September 2026

The next 8 nights at a glance

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

Pass times, night by night

start · path · brightness

Tonight · Wednesday, Oct 7

dark 7:13 pm – 6:46 am
No visible passes tonight.

Thursday, Oct 8 – Friday, Oct 9

no visible passes

Saturday, Oct 10

dark 7:09 pm – 6:48 am
7:42 pmto 8:00 pm · 18 min
S → SSE, highest 15° Sappears south at 10°, low at the top
≈ mag 5 · faintTrain · 22

Sunday, Oct 11

dark 7:08 pm – 6:49 am
7:32 pmto 7:35 pm · 3 min
SSW → SE, highest 16° SSEappears south-southwest at 10°, low at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 1
7:44 pmto 7:47 pm · 2 min
SSW → SSE, highest 19° SSEappears south-southwest at 11°, low at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 1
8:00 pmto 8:17 pm · 16 min
SW → S, highest 22° Sappears southwest at 10°, low at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 22

Monday, Oct 12

dark 7:07 pm – 6:50 am
7:13 pmto 7:17 pm · 4 min
SSW → ESE, highest 17° SSEappears south-southwest at 11°, low at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 2
7:48 pmto 7:51 pm · 3 min
SW → SSE, highest 25° Sappears southwest at 12°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 1
8:02 pmto 8:04 pm · 2 min
SW → SSW, highest 26° SSWappears southwest at 12°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 1
8:16 pmto 8:38 pm · 21 min
SW → SW, highest 22° SWappears southwest at 11°, low at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 22

Tuesday, Oct 13

dark 7:06 pm – 6:51 am
7:05 pmto 7:28 pm · 23 min
SE → ESE, highest 28° Sappears southeast at 20°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 17
8:05 pmto 8:07 pm · 2 min
WSW → SSW, highest 31° SSWappears west-southwest at 11°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 1
8:21 pmto 8:23 pm · 1 min
WSW → SW, highest 23° SWappears west-southwest at 11°, low at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 1

Wednesday, Oct 14

dark 7:04 pm – 6:51 am
7:04 pmto 7:23 pm · 19 min
SW → ESE, highest 32° SSEappears southwest at 13°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 3.5 · easyTrain · 11
7:24 pmto 7:50 pm · 25 min
WSW → ESE, highest 37° SSEappears west-southwest at 10°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 3.5 · 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 Wilmington

Wilmington is at 34.2°N. Tonight the sky is dark enough from 7:13 pm until 6:46 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 13 visible passes (13 in the evening, 0 before dawn); 6 of them should be easy to spot (estimated magnitude 4 or brighter).

The best one is on Wednesday, Oct 14 at 7:24 pm: it appears in the west-southwest, climbs to 37° in the south-southeast and fades in the east-southeast at about magnitude 3.5.

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

Questions

Can I see Starlink tonight in Wilmington?

No visible passes tonight. Next good chance: Monday, Oct 12 at 7:48 pm, looking southwest.

When is the next Starlink train over Wilmington?

Saturday, Oct 10 at 7:42 pm: 22 satellites from launch 2026-225, appearing in the south and reaching 15°.

Which direction should I look for Starlink from Wilmington?

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 North Carolina →
Jacksonville 75 kmMyrtle Beach 106 kmFayetteville 125 kmGoldsboro 128 kmGreenville 162 kmFlorence 167 km

Also tonight: the ISS

ISS pass times for Wilmington →

No visible pass of the International Space Station tonight. Next chance: Sunday, Oct 11 at 6:32 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

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