Satellites Tonight

Can I see Starlink tonight in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu?

No visible passes tonight.

Next chance, faint: Thursday 8 Oct at 7:18 pm, looking west-northwest.

Updated Times in local time (IST)11.01°, 76.97°
Also tonight over Coimbatore
Next pass · Thursday 8 Oct
Appears
7:18 pm
west-northwest, 11°
Highest
7:19 pm
15° north-northwest
Fades
7:27 pm
north-northwest, 15°
NESW
≈ mag 5 · faintTrain · 4 satellitesLaunch 2026-225 · 28 September 2026

The next 8 nights at a glance

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

Pass times, night by night

start · path · brightness

Tonight · Wednesday 7 Oct

dark 6:31 pm – 5:49 am
No visible passes tonight.

Thursday 8 Oct

dark 6:30 pm – 5:49 am
7:18 pmto 7:27 pm · 9 min
WNW → NNW, highest 15° NNWappears west-northwest at 11°, low at the top
≈ mag 5 · faintTrain · 4

Friday 9 Oct

dark 6:29 pm – 5:49 am
6:29 pmto 6:41 pm · 12 min
NW → NNE, highest 24° NNWappears northwest at 24°, low at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 14

Saturday 10 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.

No visible pass of the International Space Station tonight. Next chance: Sunday 11 Oct at 5:05 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

0 visible passes in 8 nights

No visible pass of Tiangong over Coimbatore in the next 8 nights. Like the ISS, it is seen in spells of a week or two when its track lines up with your dusk or dawn; this page is recomputed every 6 hours.

Seeing Starlink from Coimbatore

Coimbatore is at 11.0°N. Tonight the sky is dark enough from 6:31 pm until 5:49 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 2 visible passes (2 in the evening, 0 before dawn); 0 of them should be easy to spot (estimated magnitude 4 or brighter).

The best one is on Friday 9 Oct at 6:29 pm: it appears in the northwest, climbs to 24° in the north-northwest and fades in the north-northeast at about magnitude 4.5.

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 Coimbatore while it is dark and they are sunlit in this period.

Questions

Can I see Starlink tonight in Coimbatore?

No visible passes tonight. Next chance, faint: Thursday 8 Oct at 7:18 pm, looking west-northwest.

When is the next Starlink train over Coimbatore?

Thursday 8 Oct at 7:18 pm: 4 satellites from launch 2026-225, appearing in the west-northwest and reaching 15°.

Which direction should I look for Starlink from Coimbatore?

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

Before you go out