dark skytraineasy (mag ≤ 3.5)moderate (≤ 4)faint (≤ 5)
Pass times, night by night
start · path · brightness
Tonight · Wednesday 7 Oct
dark 5:47 pm – 5:13 am
No visible passes tonight.
Thursday 8 Oct
dark 5:46 pm – 5:14 am
5:47 pmto 5:56 pm · 10 min
SSE → SE, highest 13° SSEappears south-southeast at 10°, low at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 4
6:03 pmto 6:29 pm · 26 min
S → SE, highest 25° Sappears south at 12°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 22
Friday 9 Oct
dark 5:45 pm – 5:14 am
5:51 pmto 6:01 pm · 9 min
SSW → ESE, highest 27° SSEappears south-southwest at 11°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 3
6:04 pmto 6:08 pm · 4 min
SW → ESE, highest 33° SSEappears southwest at 10°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 3.5 · easyTrain · 1
6:16 pmto 6:43 pm · 27 min
SW → ESE, highest 59° SSEappears southwest at 12°, high at the top
≈ mag 2.5 · brightTrain · 22
Saturday 10 Oct
dark 5:44 pm – 5:14 am
5:57 pmto 6:02 pm · 5 min
SW → E, highest 58° SSEappears southwest at 11°, high at the top
≈ mag 2.5 · brightTrain · 2
6:06 pmto 6:10 pm · 4 min
WSW → ENE, highest 72° SSEappears west-southwest at 12°, high at the top
≈ mag 2.5 · brightTrain · 1
6:18 pmto 6:22 pm · 3 min
WSW → ENE, highest 86° Wappears west-southwest at 10°, almost overhead at the top
≈ mag 2.5 · brightTrain · 1
6:32 pmto 6:57 pm · 25 min
WSW → NW, highest 67° NNWappears west-southwest at 12°, high at the top
≈ mag 2.5 · brightTrain · 22
Sunday 11 Oct
dark 5:43 pm – 5:15 am
6:02 pmto 6:08 pm · 5 min
W → NE, highest 60° Nappears west at 12°, high at the top
≈ mag 2.5 · brightTrain · 2
6:17 pmto 6:21 pm · 3 min
W → NE, highest 47° Nappears west at 11°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 3 · easyTrain · 1
6:35 pmto 6:37 pm · 2 min
W → NNW, highest 37° NNWappears west at 10°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 3.5 · easyTrain · 1
6:51 pmto 7:12 pm · 21 min
WNW → NW, highest 24° NWappears west-northwest at 12°, low at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 19
Monday 12 Oct
dark 5:42 pm – 5:15 am
5:42 pmto 6:02 pm · 21 min
NNE → ENE, highest 56° NNWappears north-northeast at 52°, high at the top
≈ mag 3 · easyTrain · 20
6:08 pmto 6:13 pm · 5 min
W → NE, highest 32° NNWappears west at 12°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 3.5 · easyTrain · 2
6:29 pmto 6:32 pm · 2 min
WNW → NNW, highest 27° NNWappears west-northwest at 10°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 1
6:53 pmto 6:54 pm · 1 min
WNW → NW, highest 19° NWappears west-northwest at 12°, low at the top
≈ mag 5 · faintTrain · 1
Tuesday 13 Oct
dark 5:41 pm – 5:16 am
5:54 pmto 6:24 pm · 29 min
WNW → NE, highest 30° NNWappears west-northwest at 11°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 24
6:42 pmto 6:44 pm · 1 min
WNW → NNW, highest 18° NNWappears west-northwest at 10°, low at the top
≈ mag 5 · faintTrain · 1
Wednesday 14 Oct
dark 5:40 pm – 5:16 am
5:54 pmto 5:58 pm · 4 min
WNW → NE, highest 23° Nappears west-northwest at 12°, low at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 1
6:15 pmto 6:46 pm · 30 min
WNW → NNE, highest 21° Nappears west-northwest at 11°, low at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 24
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 Asansol
Asansol is at 23.7°N. Tonight the sky is dark enough from 5:47 pm until 5:13 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 21 visible passes (21 in the evening, 0 before dawn); 15 of them should be easy to spot (estimated magnitude 4 or brighter).
The best one is on Saturday 10 Oct at 6:18 pm: it appears in the west-southwest, climbs to 86° in the west 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): 21 passes here
Satellites from launch 2026-219 (20 September 2026) are also low and bright, but they do not pass over Asansol while it is dark and they are sunlit in this period.
Questions
Can I see Starlink tonight in Asansol?
No visible passes tonight. Next good chance: Thursday 8 Oct at 6:03 pm, looking south.
When is the next Starlink train over Asansol?
Thursday 8 Oct at 5:47 pm: 4 satellites from launch 2026-225, appearing in the south-southeast and reaching 13°.
Which direction should I look for Starlink from Asansol?
This week most passes appear in the west-northwest or west. Each pass above lists where it appears, how high it climbs and where it fades.