Can I see Starlink tonight in Dehradun, Uttarakhand?
No visible passes tonight.
Next good chance: Saturday 10 Oct at 6:33 pm, looking south-southwest.
The next 8 nights at a glance
15 visible passesPass times, night by night
start · path · brightnessTonight · Wednesday 7 Oct
dark 6:21 pm – 5:51 amThursday 8 Oct – Friday 9 Oct
no visible passesSaturday 10 Oct
dark 6:17 pm – 5:53 amSunday 11 Oct
dark 6:16 pm – 5:53 amMonday 12 Oct
dark 6:15 pm – 5:54 amTuesday 13 Oct
dark 6:14 pm – 5:54 amWednesday 14 Oct
dark 6:13 pm – 5:55 amMagnitude 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 Dehradun →No visible pass of the International Space Station tonight. Next chance: Tuesday 13 Oct at 5:11 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
9 visible passes in 8 nightsYes · 4:38 am, look north. Tiangong orbits about 386 km up, tilted 41.5° to the equator. It looks like a bright, steady star gliding across the sky, fainter than the ISS but easy to see without a telescope.
| Night | Appears | Highest | Mag ≈ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thursday 8 Oct | 4:38 am | 11° N | 1 |
| Friday 9 Oct | 5:14 am | 12° N | 0.5 |
| Saturday 10 Oct | 5:51 am | 12° NNW | 0 |
| Sunday 11 Oct | 4:54 am | 15° N | 0.5 |
| Monday 12 Oct | 5:30 am | 34° NNE | -0.5 |
| Tuesday 13 Oct | 4:34 am | 21° NE | 1 |
| Wednesday 14 Oct | 5:10 am | 67° NE | -2 |
| Thursday 15 Oct | 4:14 am | 16° E | 2.5 |
| Thursday 15 Oct | 5:46 am | 25° SW | -1 |
Local time. Brightness is a rough estimate (±1 magnitude; lower is brighter). How we compute this.
Seeing Starlink from Dehradun
Dehradun is at 30.3°N. Tonight the sky is dark enough from 6:21 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 15 visible passes (15 in the evening, 0 before dawn); 13 of them should be easy to spot (estimated magnitude 4 or brighter).
The best one is on Wednesday 14 Oct at 6:12 pm: it appears in the southwest, climbs to 78° in the southeast and fades in the east 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): 15 passes here
Satellites from launch 2026-219 (20 September 2026) are also low and bright, but they do not pass over Dehradun while it is dark and they are sunlit in this period.
Questions
Can I see Starlink tonight in Dehradun?
No visible passes tonight. Next good chance: Saturday 10 Oct at 6:33 pm, looking south-southwest.
When is the next Starlink train over Dehradun?
Saturday 10 Oct at 6:20 pm: 1 satellites from launch 2026-225, appearing in the south and reaching 13°.
Which direction should I look for Starlink from Dehradun?
This week most passes appear in the southwest or west-southwest. Each pass above lists where it appears, how high it climbs and where it fades.