dark skytraineasy (mag ≤ 3.5)moderate (≤ 4)faint (≤ 5)
Pass times, night by night
start · path · brightness
Tonight · Wednesday 7 Oct
dark 5:46 pm – 5:14 am
No visible passes tonight.
Thursday 8 Oct
dark 5:45 pm – 5:14 am
6:04 pmto 6:29 pm · 25 min
S → SE, highest 19° SSEappears south at 11°, low at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 22
Friday 9 Oct
dark 5:44 pm – 5:15 am
5:52 pmto 5:56 pm · 4 min
SSW → ESE, highest 18° SSEappears south-southwest at 10°, low at the top
≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 2
5:59 pmto 6:03 pm · 4 min
SSW → ESE, highest 22° SSEappears south-southwest at 11°, low at the top
≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 1
6:05 pmto 6:09 pm · 3 min
SSW → ESE, highest 25° SSEappears south-southwest at 12°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 1
6:17 pmto 6:42 pm · 25 min
SW → SE, highest 39° SSEappears southwest at 12°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 3 · easyTrain · 22
Saturday 10 Oct
dark 5:43 pm – 5:15 am
5:58 pmto 6:02 pm · 4 min
SW → E, highest 40° SSEappears southwest at 12°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 3 · easyTrain · 2
6:11 pmto 6:15 pm · 4 min
WSW → E, highest 54° Sappears west-southwest at 11°, high at the top
≈ mag 3 · easyTrain · 1
6:20 pmto 6:23 pm · 3 min
WSW → ESE, highest 64° SEappears west-southwest at 12°, high at the top
≈ mag 2.5 · brightTrain · 1
6:33 pmto 6:54 pm · 21 min
WSW → SW, highest 76° SWappears west-southwest at 12°, almost overhead at the top
≈ mag 2.5 · brightTrain · 22
Sunday 11 Oct
dark 5:43 pm – 5:15 am
6:04 pmto 6:09 pm · 4 min
WSW → ENE, highest 88° NNWappears west-southwest at 12°, almost overhead at the top
≈ mag 2 · brightTrain · 2
6:25 pmto 6:28 pm · 3 min
W → N, highest 62° Nappears west at 11°, high at the top
≈ mag 2.5 · brightTrain · 1
6:36 pmto 6:39 pm · 2 min
W → NW, highest 47° NWappears west at 10°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 3.5 · easyTrain · 1
6:52 pmto 7:08 pm · 16 min
W → WNW, highest 30° WNWappears west at 11°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 22
Monday 12 Oct
dark 5:42 pm – 5:16 am
5:41 pmto 5:57 pm · 16 min
ENE → ENE, highest 82° NWappears east-northeast at 16°, almost overhead at the top
≈ mag 2.5 · brightTrain · 21
6:11 pmto 6:15 pm · 4 min
W → NE, highest 45° NNWappears west at 11°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 3 · easyTrain · 2
6:42 pmto 6:44 pm · 2 min
WNW → NW, highest 30° NWappears west-northwest at 12°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 1
6:55 pmto 6:57 pm · 1 min
WNW → WNW, highest 21° WNWappears west-northwest at 10°, low at the top
≈ mag 5 · faintTrain · 1
Tuesday 13 Oct
dark 5:41 pm – 5:16 am
5:40 pmto 5:43 pm · 3 min
WNW → ENE, highest 51° Nappears west-northwest at 41°, high at the top
≈ mag 3 · easyTrain · 1
5:49 pmto 6:21 pm · 32 min
W → ENE, highest 42° Nappears west at 10°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 3 · easyTrain · 24
Wednesday 14 Oct
dark 5:40 pm – 5:17 am
5:40 pmto 5:45 pm · 5 min
WNW → NE, highest 34° Nappears west-northwest at 12°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 3.5 · easyTrain · 1
5:57 pmto 6:01 pm · 4 min
WNW → NE, highest 31° NNWappears west-northwest at 11°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 1
6:02 pmto 6:16 pm · 14 min
WNW → NE, highest 28° Nappears west-northwest at 11°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 10
6:18 pmto 6:41 pm · 23 min
WNW → NNE, highest 28° NNWappears west-northwest at 10°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 14
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.
No visible pass of the International Space Station tonight. Next chance: Sunday 11 Oct at 5:09 am, looking south-southwest. The space station is far brighter than Starlink satellites, so it is often the easier thing to spot.
Tiangong, China's space station
4 visible passes in 8 nights
No visible pass of Tiangong over Bhagalpur tonight. Next: Sunday 11 Oct at 4:57 am. It orbits about 386 km up, tilted 41.5° to the equator, and looks like a bright, steady star gliding across the sky.
Night
Appears
Look
Highest
Mag ≈
Sunday 11 Oct
4:57 am
north-northeast
10° NNE
1.5
Tuesday 13 Oct
4:34 am
north-northwest
17° NNE
1
Wednesday 14 Oct
5:10 am
northwest
66° NNE
-2
Thursday 15 Oct
4:14 am
north-northeast
30° NNE
-0.5
Local time. Brightness is a rough estimate (±1 magnitude; lower is brighter). How we compute this.
Seeing Starlink from Bhagalpur
Bhagalpur is at 25.2°N. Tonight the sky is dark enough from 5:46 pm until 5:14 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 23 visible passes (23 in the evening, 0 before dawn); 20 of them should be easy to spot (estimated magnitude 4 or brighter).
The best one is on Sunday 11 Oct at 6:04 pm: it appears in the west-southwest, climbs to 88° in the north-northwest and fades in the east-northeast at about magnitude 2.
The passes come from these launches:
2026-225, launched 28 September 2026 (train, 26 satellites, now 296–316 km up): 23 passes here
Satellites from launch 2026-219 (20 September 2026) are also low and bright, but they do not pass over Bhagalpur while it is dark and they are sunlit in this period.
Questions
Can I see Starlink tonight in Bhagalpur?
No visible passes tonight. Next good chance: Friday 9 Oct at 5:52 pm, looking south-southwest.
When is the next Starlink train over Bhagalpur?
Thursday 8 Oct at 6:04 pm: 22 satellites from launch 2026-225, appearing in the south and reaching 19°.
Which direction should I look for Starlink from Bhagalpur?
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.