dark skytraineasy (mag ≤ 3.5)moderate (≤ 4)faint (≤ 5)
Pass times, night by night
start · path · brightness
Tonight · Wednesday 7 Oct
dark 5:50 pm – 5:17 am
No visible passes tonight.
Thursday 8 Oct
dark 5:49 pm – 5:17 am
5:49 pmto 5:56 pm · 7 min
S → SE, highest 12° SSEappears south at 10°, low at the top
≈ mag 5 · faintTrain · 2
6:03 pmto 6:29 pm · 26 min
S → SE, highest 24° SSEappears south at 10°, low at the top
≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 22
Friday 9 Oct
dark 5:48 pm – 5:17 am
5:52 pmto 5:56 pm · 5 min
SSW → ESE, highest 22° SSEappears south-southwest at 12°, low at the top
≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 2
5:58 pmto 6:03 pm · 4 min
SW → E, highest 27° SSEappears southwest at 10°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 3.5 · easyTrain · 1
6:05 pmto 6:09 pm · 4 min
SW → ESE, highest 31° SSEappears southwest at 11°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 3.5 · easyTrain · 1
6:16 pmto 6:42 pm · 25 min
SW → ESE, highest 57° Sappears southwest at 11°, high at the top
≈ mag 2.5 · brightTrain · 22
Saturday 10 Oct
dark 5:47 pm – 5:18 am
5:58 pmto 6:02 pm · 5 min
SW → E, highest 54° SSEappears southwest at 13°, high at the top
≈ mag 2.5 · brightTrain · 2
6:11 pmto 6:15 pm · 4 min
WSW → ENE, highest 72° SSWappears west-southwest at 12°, high at the top
≈ mag 2.5 · brightTrain · 1
6:19 pmto 6:23 pm · 4 min
WSW → ENE, highest 80° ENEappears west-southwest at 12°, almost overhead at the top
≈ mag 2.5 · brightTrain · 1
6:33 pmto 6:54 pm · 21 min
WSW → NNE, highest 69° Nappears west-southwest at 12°, high at the top
≈ mag 2.5 · brightTrain · 22
Sunday 11 Oct
dark 5:46 pm – 5:18 am
6:04 pmto 6:09 pm · 5 min
WSW → ENE, highest 62° NNWappears west-southwest at 11°, high at the top
≈ mag 2.5 · brightTrain · 2
6:25 pmto 6:28 pm · 3 min
W → NNE, highest 45° NNWappears west at 10°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 3 · easyTrain · 1
6:36 pmto 6:39 pm · 3 min
W → NNW, highest 39° NNWappears west at 12°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 3.5 · easyTrain · 1
6:52 pmto 7:08 pm · 16 min
W → NW, highest 28° NWappears west at 12°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 22
Monday 12 Oct
dark 5:46 pm – 5:18 am
5:45 pmto 5:57 pm · 12 min
NE → ENE, highest 57° NNWappears northeast at 32°, high at the top
≈ mag 3 · easyTrain · 12
6:11 pmto 6:15 pm · 4 min
W → NE, highest 32° NNWappears west at 10°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 3.5 · easyTrain · 2
6:41 pmto 6:44 pm · 2 min
WNW → NNW, highest 25° NNWappears west-northwest at 10°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 1
6:55 pmto 6:57 pm · 1 min
WNW → NW, highest 20° NWappears west-northwest at 10°, low at the top
≈ mag 5 · faintTrain · 1
Tuesday 13 Oct
dark 5:45 pm – 5:19 am
5:49 pmto 6:21 pm · 32 min
WNW → NE, highest 31° Nappears west-northwest at 11°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 24
Wednesday 14 Oct
dark 5:44 pm – 5:19 am
5:43 pmto 5:45 pm · 2 min
N → NE, highest 25° Nappears north at 25°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 1
5:57 pmto 6:01 pm · 5 min
WNW → NE, highest 23° Nappears west-northwest at 11°, low at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 1
6:02 pmto 6:16 pm · 14 min
WNW → NE, highest 21° Nappears west-northwest at 11°, low at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 10
6:18 pmto 6:41 pm · 23 min
WNW → NNE, highest 21° Nappears west-northwest at 10°, low at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 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
3 visible passes in 8 nights
No visible pass of Tiangong over Bokaro tonight. Next: Tuesday 13 Oct at 4:34 am. It orbits about 386 km up, tilted 41.5° to the equator, and looks like a bright, steady star gliding across the sky.
Night
Appears
Look
Highest
Mag ≈
Tuesday 13 Oct
4:34 am
north
13° NNE
1
Wednesday 14 Oct
5:11 am
northwest
45° NE
-0.5
Thursday 15 Oct
4:14 am
north-northeast
22° NNE
0
Local time. Brightness is a rough estimate (±1 magnitude; lower is brighter). How we compute this.
Seeing Starlink from Bokaro
Bokaro is at 23.7°N. Tonight the sky is dark enough from 5:50 pm until 5:17 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); 16 of them should be easy to spot (estimated magnitude 4 or brighter).
The best one is on Saturday 10 Oct at 6:19 pm: it appears in the west-southwest, climbs to 80° in the east-northeast 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): 23 passes here
Satellites from launch 2026-219 (20 September 2026) are also low and bright, but they do not pass over Bokaro while it is dark and they are sunlit in this period.
Questions
Can I see Starlink tonight in Bokaro?
No visible passes tonight. Next good chance: Thursday 8 Oct at 6:03 pm, looking south.
When is the next Starlink train over Bokaro?
Thursday 8 Oct at 5:49 pm: 2 satellites from launch 2026-225, appearing in the south and reaching 12°.
Which direction should I look for Starlink from Bokaro?
This week most passes appear in the west-northwest or southwest. Each pass above lists where it appears, how high it climbs and where it fades.