dark skytraineasy (mag ≤ 3.5)moderate (≤ 4)faint (≤ 5)
Pass times, night by night
start · path · brightness
Tonight · Wednesday 7 Oct
dark 6:25 pm – 5:51 am
No visible passes tonight.
Thursday 8 Oct
dark 6:24 pm – 5:52 am
6:25 pmto 6:29 pm · 3 min
S → ESE, highest 13° SSEappears south at 10°, low at the top
≈ mag 5 · faintTrain · 2
7:18 pmto 7:27 pm · 9 min
SW → SSW, highest 24° SSWappears southwest at 11°, low at the top
≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 4
7:36 pmto 7:43 pm · 7 min
WSW → SW, highest 18° SWappears west-southwest at 11°, low at the top
≈ mag 5 · faintTrain · 5
Friday 9 Oct
dark 6:23 pm – 5:52 am
6:23 pmto 6:42 pm · 19 min
S → E, highest 31° SSEappears south at 19°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 3.5 · easyTrain · 19
7:24 pmto 7:27 pm · 2 min
WSW → WSW, highest 27° WSWappears west-southwest at 10°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 2
7:32 pmto 7:33 pm · 1 min
WSW → WSW, highest 25° WSWappears west-southwest at 12°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 1
7:38 pmto 7:40 pm · 1 min
WSW → W, highest 21° Wappears west-southwest at 11°, low at the top
≈ mag 5 · faintTrain · 1
Saturday 10 Oct
dark 6:22 pm – 5:53 am
6:22 pmto 6:23 pm · 1 min
E → E, highest 21° Eappears east at 21°, low at the top
≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 1
6:31 pmto 6:54 pm · 23 min
SW → ENE, highest 82° WSWappears southwest at 12°, almost overhead at the top
≈ mag 2.5 · brightTrain · 22
7:31 pmto 7:33 pm · 2 min
W → WNW, highest 22° WNWappears west at 11°, low at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 2
Sunday 11 Oct
dark 6:22 pm – 5:53 am
6:23 pmto 6:28 pm · 5 min
WSW → ENE, highest 78° NNEappears west-southwest at 11°, almost overhead at the top
≈ mag 2.5 · brightTrain · 1
6:34 pmto 6:39 pm · 5 min
WSW → ENE, highest 65° NNWappears west-southwest at 11°, high at the top
≈ mag 3 · easyTrain · 1
6:50 pmto 7:08 pm · 18 min
W → NE, highest 50° NNWappears west at 11°, high at the top
≈ mag 3 · easyTrain · 22
Monday 12 Oct
dark 6:21 pm – 5:53 am
6:39 pmto 6:44 pm · 4 min
W → NE, highest 35° Nappears west at 12°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 3.5 · easyTrain · 1
6:53 pmto 6:57 pm · 4 min
WNW → NNE, highest 30° Nappears west-northwest at 10°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 1
7:10 pmto 7:29 pm · 19 min
WNW → N, highest 26° NNWappears west-northwest at 10°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 22
Tuesday 13 Oct
dark 6:20 pm – 5:54 am
6:19 pmto 6:20 pm · 1 min
NNE → NE, highest 23° NNEappears north-northeast at 23°, low at the top
≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 2
6:57 pmto 7:00 pm · 3 min
WNW → NNE, highest 22° Nappears west-northwest at 10°, low at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 1
7:12 pmto 7:15 pm · 2 min
WNW → NNW, highest 20° NNWappears west-northwest at 11°, low at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 1
7:23 pmto 7:40 pm · 17 min
NW → NNW, highest 17° NNWappears northwest at 11°, low at the top
≈ mag 5 · faintTrain · 15
Wednesday 14 Oct
dark 6:19 pm – 5:54 am
6:18 pmto 6:41 pm · 22 min
N → NE, highest 24° NNWappears north at 23°, low at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 14
7:15 pmto 7:17 pm · 1 min
NW → NNW, highest 17° NNWappears 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 Bhopal
Bhopal is at 23.3°N. Tonight the sky is dark enough from 6:25 pm until 5:51 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 22 visible passes (22 in the evening, 0 before dawn); 11 of them should be easy to spot (estimated magnitude 4 or brighter).
The best one is on Saturday 10 Oct at 6:31 pm: it appears in the southwest, climbs to 82° in the west-southwest 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 296–316 km up): 22 passes here
Satellites from launch 2026-219 (20 September 2026) are also low and bright, but they do not pass over Bhopal while it is dark and they are sunlit in this period.
Questions
Can I see Starlink tonight in Bhopal?
No visible passes tonight. Next good chance: Thursday 8 Oct at 7:18 pm, looking southwest.
When is the next Starlink train over Bhopal?
Thursday 8 Oct at 6:25 pm: 2 satellites from launch 2026-225, appearing in the south and reaching 13°.
Which direction should I look for Starlink from Bhopal?
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.
No visible pass of the International Space Station tonight. Next chance: Sunday 11 Oct at 5:09 am, looking south-southeast. The space station is far brighter than Starlink satellites, so it is often the easier thing to spot.