Reliable Starlink sight predictions?

[greypilgrim]

Hi.

I haven't been lucky once with the times on Find Starlink, despite trying about 10 times. However, last week I once saw a group by pure accident, and when I compared with that website it was about 20 min after the last predicted time.

Are there websites with more reliable predictions?

 

[Baluncore]

Low Earth orbit satellites are only visible just before dawn and just after dusk, before they enter the Earth's shadow.
https://www.heavens-above.com/main.aspx
First set your location and time zone. Then follow the menu to ...

https://www.heavens-above.com/StarLink.aspx?launchid=2020006
https://www.heavens-above.com/StarlinkLaunchPasses.aspx

 

[mfb]

They actively change their orbit, that makes tracking difficult.

If findstarlink.com, james.darpinian.com and heavens-above.com all agree on the predictions they are probably not too wrong, otherwise you can get at least a rough time range. The brightness predictions can be even worse than the time predictions, however. A prediction of magnitude 2.5 (easily visible from most places) can turn out to be 4.5 (really difficult to see from many places) or something like that.