Satellites Tonight

Can I see Starlink tonight in Chennai, Tamil Nadu?

No visible passes tonight.

Next good chance: Thursday 8 Oct at 6:15 pm, looking west-southwest.

Updated Times in local time (IST)13.09°, 80.28°
Next pass · Thursday 8 Oct
Appears
6:15 pm
west-southwest, 38°
Highest
6:18 pm
84° northwest
Fades
6:29 pm
east-northeast, 12°
NESW
≈ mag 2.5 · brightTrain · 13 satellitesLaunch 2026-225 · 28 September 2026

The next 8 nights at a glance

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

Pass times, night by night

start · path · brightness

Tonight · Wednesday 7 Oct

dark 6:17 pm – 5:37 am
No visible passes tonight.

Thursday 8 Oct

dark 6:16 pm – 5:37 am
6:15 pmto 6:29 pm · 14 min
WSW → ENE, highest 84° NWappears west-southwest at 38°, almost overhead at the top
≈ mag 2.5 · brightTrain · 13

Friday 9 Oct

dark 6:15 pm – 5:37 am
6:15 pmto 6:43 pm · 28 min
W → NE, highest 35° NNWappears west at 18°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 22

Saturday 10 Oct

dark 6:15 pm – 5:37 am
6:17 pmto 6:20 pm · 4 min
WNW → NNE, highest 17° NNWappears west-northwest at 11°, low at the top
≈ mag 5 · faintTrain · 1

Sunday 11 Oct – Wednesday 14 Oct

no visible passes

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 Chennai

Chennai is at 13.1°N. Tonight the sky is dark enough from 6:17 pm until 5:37 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 3 visible passes (3 in the evening, 0 before dawn); 2 of them should be easy to spot (estimated magnitude 4 or brighter).

The best one is on Thursday 8 Oct at 6:15 pm: it appears in the west-southwest, climbs to 84° in the northwest 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 Chennai while it is dark and they are sunlit in this period.

Questions

Can I see Starlink tonight in Chennai?

No visible passes tonight. Next good chance: Thursday 8 Oct at 6:15 pm, looking west-southwest.

When is the next Starlink train over Chennai?

Thursday 8 Oct at 6:15 pm: 13 satellites from launch 2026-225, appearing in the west-southwest and reaching 84°.

Which direction should I look for Starlink from Chennai?

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

Nearby cities

All of Tamil Nadu →
Ambattur 13 kmAvadi 19 kmVellore 126 kmPuducherry 137 kmNellore 155 kmKallakurichi 208 km

Before you go out

How to spot StarlinkWhat the Starlink train isWhy some nights have nothing