Starlink train passes over Mauritius
A still-clustered Starlink launch batch (2025-293, 27 satellites) was found in the latest fetched orbital elements (epoch 2026-09-16 02:45 MUT, 0.4 days old) — passes below are computed for that batch's lead satellite.
Computed for Port Louis, Mauritius (-20.1609, 57.5012)
A still-clustered Starlink batch (2025-293) was found, but no visible passes turned up for Port Louis in the next 10 days with current orbital data — this can happen depending on orbital geometry and season.
Computed with skyfield's satellite propagation against the latest fetched Two-Line Element (TLE) set for one representative ('lead') satellite of a freshly launched Starlink batch. A batch counts as a 'train' only while its satellites' orbital positions (mean anomaly) still cluster within a narrow arc — a disclosed approximation for 'still visibly a train', not a full relative-position simulation of every satellite. A pass counts as 'visible' only if the lead satellite is sunlit AND Port Louis's sky is at least civil-twilight dark (Sun below -6° altitude) at the pass's peak. The magnitude shown is a rougher, simplified brightness estimate than this page's ISS-passes sibling — no equivalent well-established reference brightness was found for freshly deployed Starlink satellites.
Why is this only visible for a few nights?
A freshly launched Starlink batch deploys tightly clustered — the 'train' of lights people report seeing — but each satellite quickly raises itself to its own operational orbital slot, so the batch visibly spreads apart within days to a few weeks. This page only lists a batch while it still clusters within a narrow arc of its orbit; once a batch has dispersed, it stops appearing here even though the satellites themselves are still in orbit and Starlink passes generally remain frequent.
Why might this page show no train?
Either no Starlink orbital elements have been fetched yet, the latest fetched data is too old to trust, or — most commonly — no recently launched batch is currently still visibly clustered (most Starlink satellites in orbit are long since spread out to their own operational shells, which this page does not track). This page never estimates a train from stale or missing orbital data, or invents one that isn't genuinely still clustered; it shows an honest note instead.