Satellites Tonight

Can I see Starlink tonight in Yuba City, CA?

No visible passes tonight.

Next chance, faint: Wednesday, Oct 14 at 7:28 pm, looking south-southwest.

Updated Times in local time (PDT)39.14°, -121.62°
Next pass · Wednesday, Oct 14
Appears
7:28 pm
south-southwest, 11°
Highest
7:52 pm
15° south
Fades
7:53 pm
south-southeast, 11°
NESW
≈ mag 5 · faintTrain · 14 satellitesLaunch 2026-225 · 28 September 2026

The next 8 nights at a glance

1 visible pass
dark skytraineasy (mag ≤ 3.5)moderate (≤ 4)faint (≤ 5)

Pass times, night by night

start · path · brightness

Tonight · Wednesday, Oct 7

dark 7:07 pm – 6:42 am
No visible passes tonight.

Thursday, Oct 8 – Tuesday, Oct 13

no visible passes

Wednesday, Oct 14

dark 6:56 pm – 6:49 am
7:28 pmto 7:53 pm · 25 min
SSW → SSE, highest 15° Sappears south-southwest at 11°, low at the top
≈ mag 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 Yuba City

Yuba City is at 39.1°N. Tonight the sky is dark enough from 7:07 pm until 6:42 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 1 visible pass (1 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 7:28 pm: it appears in the south-southwest, climbs to 15° in the south and fades in the south-southeast at about magnitude 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 Yuba City while it is dark and they are sunlit in this period.

Questions

Can I see Starlink tonight in Yuba City?

No visible passes tonight. Next chance, faint: Wednesday, Oct 14 at 7:28 pm, looking south-southwest.

When is the next Starlink train over Yuba City?

Wednesday, Oct 14 at 7:28 pm: 14 satellites from launch 2026-225, appearing in the south-southwest and reaching 15°.

Which direction should I look for Starlink from Yuba City?

This week most passes appear in the south-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: Sunday, Oct 11 at 6:40 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