dark skytraineasy (mag ≤ 3.5)moderate (≤ 4)faint (≤ 5)
Pass times, night by night
start · path · brightness
Tonight · Wednesday 7 Oct
dark 6:21 pm – 5:50 am
No visible passes tonight.
Thursday 8 Oct
no visible passes
Friday 9 Oct
dark 6:19 pm – 5:51 am
6:19 pmto 6:43 pm · 24 min
SSE → SE, highest 15° SSEappears south-southeast at 10°, low at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 21
Saturday 10 Oct
dark 6:18 pm – 5:52 am
6:18 pmto 6:22 pm · 4 min
SSW → ESE, highest 19° SSEappears south-southwest at 11°, low at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 1
6:31 pmto 6:57 pm · 26 min
SSW → ESE, highest 34° SSEappears south-southwest at 11°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 3.5 · easyTrain · 22
7:30 pmto 7:32 pm · 2 min
WSW → WSW, highest 17° WSWappears west-southwest at 11°, low at the top
≈ mag 5 · faintTrain · 2
Sunday 11 Oct
dark 6:17 pm – 5:52 am
6:16 pmto 6:20 pm · 4 min
SW → E, highest 30° SSEappears southwest at 14°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 3.5 · easyTrain · 1
6:33 pmto 6:37 pm · 4 min
SW → E, highest 42° SSEappears southwest at 11°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 3 · easyTrain · 1
6:49 pmto 7:13 pm · 24 min
WSW → ESE, highest 71° SSWappears west-southwest at 11°, high at the top
≈ mag 2.5 · brightTrain · 22
Monday 12 Oct
dark 6:16 pm – 5:53 am
6:27 pmto 6:32 pm · 4 min
WSW → E, highest 66° SEappears west-southwest at 11°, high at the top
≈ mag 2.5 · brightTrain · 1
6:51 pmto 6:54 pm · 4 min
WSW → ENE, highest 81° ENEappears west-southwest at 12°, almost overhead at the top
≈ mag 2.5 · brightTrain · 1
7:08 pmto 7:34 pm · 25 min
W → WNW, highest 66° WNWappears west at 12°, high at the top
≈ mag 3 · easyTrain · 22
Tuesday 13 Oct
dark 6:15 pm – 5:53 am
6:14 pmto 6:24 pm · 9 min
WSW → ENE, highest 88° SEappears west-southwest at 15°, almost overhead at the top
≈ mag 2.5 · brightTrain · 9
6:40 pmto 6:44 pm · 4 min
W → ENE, highest 67° NNWappears west at 12°, high at the top
≈ mag 2.5 · brightTrain · 1
7:09 pmto 7:12 pm · 2 min
W → NW, highest 48° NWappears west at 10°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 3.5 · easyTrain · 1
7:29 pmto 7:49 pm · 20 min
W → WNW, highest 23° WNWappears west at 12°, low at the top
≈ mag 5 · faintTrain · 17
Wednesday 14 Oct
dark 6:14 pm – 5:54 am
6:13 pmto 6:46 pm · 32 min
W → ENE, highest 67° Nappears west at 12°, high at the top
≈ mag 2.5 · brightTrain · 24
6:53 pmto 6:56 pm · 3 min
W → NNE, highest 47° Nappears west at 11°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 3 · easyTrain · 1
7:28 pmto 7:29 pm · 1 min
WNW → WNW, highest 21° WNWappears west-northwest at 11°, low at the top
≈ mag 5 · faintTrain · 1
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 Aligarh
Aligarh is at 27.9°N. Tonight the sky is dark enough from 6:21 pm until 5:50 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 17 visible passes (17 in the evening, 0 before dawn); 12 of them should be easy to spot (estimated magnitude 4 or brighter).
The best one is on Tuesday 13 Oct at 6:14 pm: it appears in the west-southwest, climbs to 88° in the southeast and fades in the east-northeast at about magnitude 2.5.
The passes come from these launches:
2026-225, launched 28 September 2026 (train, 26 satellites, now 296–315 km up): 17 passes here
Satellites from launch 2026-219 (20 September 2026) are also low and bright, but they do not pass over Aligarh while it is dark and they are sunlit in this period.
Questions
Can I see Starlink tonight in Aligarh?
No visible passes tonight. Next good chance: Saturday 10 Oct at 6:31 pm, looking south-southwest.
When is the next Starlink train over Aligarh?
Friday 9 Oct at 6:19 pm: 21 satellites from launch 2026-225, appearing in the south-southeast and reaching 15°.
Which direction should I look for Starlink from Aligarh?
This week most passes appear in the west or west-southwest. Each pass above lists where it appears, how high it climbs and where it fades.