Satellites Tonight

Can I see Starlink tonight in Bhilai, Chhattisgarh?

No visible passes tonight.

Next good chance: Thursday 8 Oct at 6:08 pm, looking east-southeast.

Updated Times in local time (IST)21.21°, 81.43°
Also tonight over Bhilai
Space station (ISS)Not tonightNext: Sunday 11 Oct at 5:08 amTiangong (China's station)Not tonightNext: Monday 12 Oct at 5:34 am
Next pass · Thursday 8 Oct
Appears
6:08 pm
east-southeast, 12°
Highest
6:28 pm
25° south-southeast
Fades
6:29 pm
east-southeast, 11°
NESW
≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 20 satellitesLaunch 2026-225 · 28 September 2026

The next 8 nights at a glance

16 visible passes
dark skytraineasy (mag ≤ 3.5)moderate (≤ 4)faint (≤ 5)

Pass times, night by night

start · path · brightness

Tonight · Wednesday 7 Oct

dark 6:10 pm – 5:35 am
No visible passes tonight.

Thursday 8 Oct

dark 6:09 pm – 5:35 am
6:08 pmto 6:29 pm · 21 min
ESE → ESE, highest 25° SSEappears east-southeast at 12°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 20
7:19 pmto 7:27 pm · 8 min
WSW → WSW, highest 18° WSWappears west-southwest at 13°, low at the top
≈ mag 5 · faintTrain · 4

Friday 9 Oct

dark 6:08 pm – 5:35 am
6:07 pmto 6:08 pm · 1 min
ESE → E, highest 21° ESEappears east-southeast at 21°, low at the top
≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 1
6:15 pmto 6:42 pm · 26 min
SW → E, highest 75° SSEappears southwest at 11°, almost overhead at the top
≈ mag 2.5 · brightTrain · 22

Saturday 10 Oct

dark 6:07 pm – 5:36 am
6:09 pmto 6:15 pm · 5 min
WSW → ENE, highest 79° SWappears west-southwest at 12°, almost overhead at the top
≈ mag 2.5 · brightTrain · 1
6:18 pmto 6:23 pm · 5 min
WSW → ENE, highest 76° NNEappears west-southwest at 12°, almost overhead at the top
≈ mag 2.5 · brightTrain · 1
6:32 pmto 6:54 pm · 23 min
WSW → NE, highest 59° Nappears west-southwest at 12°, high at the top
≈ mag 3 · easyTrain · 22

Sunday 11 Oct

dark 6:06 pm – 5:36 am
6:06 pmto 6:08 pm · 3 min
N → NE, highest 50° NNWappears north at 47°, high at the top
≈ mag 3 · easyTrain · 2
6:24 pmto 6:28 pm · 4 min
W → NE, highest 36° NNWappears west at 12°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 3.5 · easyTrain · 1
6:35 pmto 6:39 pm · 4 min
W → NNE, highest 31° NNWappears west at 11°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 1
6:51 pmto 7:08 pm · 17 min
WNW → N, highest 26° NNWappears west-northwest at 10°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 22

Monday 12 Oct

dark 6:05 pm – 5:36 am
6:10 pmto 6:14 pm · 5 min
WNW → NE, highest 25° NNWappears west-northwest at 11°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 2
6:40 pmto 6:44 pm · 3 min
WNW → NNE, highest 19° NNWappears west-northwest at 10°, low at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 1
6:54 pmto 6:57 pm · 2 min
WNW → N, highest 18° NNWappears west-northwest at 10°, low at the top
≈ mag 5 · faintTrain · 1

Tuesday 13 Oct

dark 6:05 pm – 5:37 am
6:04 pmto 6:21 pm · 17 min
N → NE, highest 22° Nappears north at 22°, low at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 11

Wednesday 14 Oct

dark 6:04 pm – 5:37 am
6:03 pmto 6:15 pm · 12 min
N → NNE, highest 15° NNWappears north at 15°, low at the top
≈ mag 5 · faintTrain · 10

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.

The ISS tonight

ISS pass times for Bhilai →

No visible pass of the International Space Station tonight. Next chance: Sunday 11 Oct at 5:08 am, looking south. The space station is far brighter than Starlink satellites, so it is often the easier thing to spot.

Tiangong, China's space station

3 visible passes in 8 nights

No visible pass of Tiangong over Bhilai tonight. Next: Monday 12 Oct at 5:34 am. It orbits about 386 km up, tilted 41.5° to the equator, and looks like a bright, steady star gliding across the sky.

NightAppearsLookHighestMag ≈
Monday 12 Oct5:34 amnorth-northeast11° NNE1.5
Wednesday 14 Oct5:11 amnorth-northwest20° NE1
Thursday 15 Oct4:14 amnorth-northeast11° NNE1.5

Local time. Brightness is a rough estimate (±1 magnitude; lower is brighter). How we compute this.

Seeing Starlink from Bhilai

Bhilai is at 21.2°N. Tonight the sky is dark enough from 6:10 pm until 5:35 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 16 visible passes (16 in the evening, 0 before dawn); 10 of them should be easy to spot (estimated magnitude 4 or brighter).

The best one is on Saturday 10 Oct at 6:09 pm: it appears in the west-southwest, climbs to 79° in the southwest and fades in the east-northeast at about magnitude 2.5.

The passes come from these launches:

Satellites from launch 2026-219 (20 September 2026) are also low and bright, but they do not pass over Bhilai while it is dark and they are sunlit in this period.

Questions

Can I see Starlink tonight in Bhilai?

No visible passes tonight. Next good chance: Thursday 8 Oct at 6:08 pm, looking east-southeast.

When is the next Starlink train over Bhilai?

Thursday 8 Oct at 6:08 pm: 20 satellites from launch 2026-225, appearing in the east-southeast and reaching 25°.

Which direction should I look for Starlink from Bhilai?

This week most passes appear in the west-southwest or west-northwest. Each pass above lists where it appears, how high it climbs and where it fades.

Nearby cities

All of Chhattisgarh →
Raipur 21 kmBilaspur 123 kmKorba 182 kmNagpur 243 kmNowrangapur 249 kmChanda 262 km

Before you go out

ISS tonight in BhilaiHow to spot StarlinkWhat the Starlink train isWhy some nights have nothing