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Tonight overhead

Out on the boat at anchor or on the beach after dark: what's that bright one? Pick your spot and this says which planets are up and where to look, when the Space Station and Hubble fly over, whether a Starlink train is passing, and whether a rocket goes up tonight. Florida gets a few things most of the country never sees, and they're marked.

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Planets and the moon

Space stations and Hubble

Passes you can see with your eyes in the next 3 nights: the sky has to be dark and the spacecraft still in sunlight. They look like a steady star sliding across the sky in a few minutes, no blinking.

Starlink trains

For a week or so after a launch, a fresh batch of Starlink satellites flies low and close together: a line of dots sliding across the sky one after another, no blinking. Then they climb, spread out and fade.

Sky chart

Hold it over your head with the top toward north: overhead is the middle, the horizon is the edge, east is on the left.

Space Coast launch schedule Rain check radar

Worked out in your browser with astronomy-engine (planet and moon positions) and satellite.js (orbits from public NORAD data via CelesTrak; Starlink trains: CelesTrak's last-30-days list). Launch times from our launch schedule (The Space Devs). Times are rough to a minute or two, and orbits shift, so check again the day of. Not official.