dark skytraineasy (mag ≤ 3.5)moderate (≤ 4)faint (≤ 5)
Pass times, night by night
start · path · brightness
Tonight · Wednesday 7 Oct
dark 5:49 pm – 5:15 am
No visible passes tonight.
Thursday 8 Oct
dark 5:48 pm – 5:16 am
5:48 pmto 5:56 pm · 8 min
SSE → SSE, highest 12° SSEappears south-southeast at 10°, low at the top
≈ mag 5 · faintTrain · 3
6:03 pmto 6:29 pm · 26 min
S → SE, highest 24° SSEappears south at 11°, low at the top
≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 22
Friday 9 Oct
dark 5:47 pm – 5:16 am
5:52 pmto 5:56 pm · 5 min
SSW → ESE, highest 22° SSEappears south-southwest at 11°, low at the top
≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 2
5:59 pmto 6:03 pm · 4 min
SSW → ESE, highest 27° SSEappears south-southwest at 12°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 1
6:05 pmto 6:09 pm · 4 min
SW → ESE, highest 31° SSEappears southwest at 10°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 3.5 · easyTrain · 1
6:16 pmto 6:42 pm · 25 min
SW → ESE, highest 55° Sappears southwest at 10°, high at the top
≈ mag 2.5 · brightTrain · 22
Saturday 10 Oct
dark 5:46 pm – 5:17 am
5:58 pmto 6:02 pm · 5 min
SW → E, highest 54° Sappears southwest at 12°, high at the top
≈ mag 2.5 · brightTrain · 2
6:11 pmto 6:15 pm · 4 min
WSW → E, highest 73° SEappears west-southwest at 11°, high at the top
≈ mag 2.5 · brightTrain · 1
6:19 pmto 6:23 pm · 4 min
WSW → ENE, highest 83° Eappears west-southwest at 11°, almost overhead at the top
≈ mag 2.5 · brightTrain · 1
6:33 pmto 6:54 pm · 21 min
WSW → N, highest 71° Nappears west-southwest at 12°, high at the top
≈ mag 2.5 · brightTrain · 22
Sunday 11 Oct
dark 5:45 pm – 5:17 am
6:04 pmto 6:09 pm · 4 min
WSW → ENE, highest 62° NWappears west-southwest at 11°, high at the top
≈ mag 2.5 · brightTrain · 2
6:25 pmto 6:28 pm · 3 min
W → N, highest 45° NNWappears west at 12°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 3 · easyTrain · 1
6:36 pmto 6:39 pm · 3 min
W → NNW, highest 39° NNWappears west at 11°, 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 11°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 22
Monday 12 Oct
dark 5:44 pm – 5:17 am
5:44 pmto 5:57 pm · 14 min
WNW → ENE, highest 57° NNWappears west-northwest at 49°, high at the top
≈ mag 3 · easyTrain · 13
6:11 pmto 6:15 pm · 4 min
W → NE, highest 33° Nappears west at 12°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 3.5 · easyTrain · 2
6:42 pmto 6:44 pm · 2 min
WNW → NNW, highest 25° NNWappears west-northwest at 12°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 1
6:55 pmto 6:57 pm · 1 min
WNW → NW, highest 19° NWappears west-northwest at 10°, low at the top
≈ mag 5 · faintTrain · 1
Tuesday 13 Oct
dark 5:43 pm – 5:18 am
5:43 pmto 5:43 pm · 1 min
NE → NE, highest 13° NEappears northeast at 13°, low at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 1
5:49 pmto 6:21 pm · 32 min
WNW → NE, highest 31° NNWappears west-northwest at 11°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 24
Wednesday 14 Oct
dark 5:43 pm – 5:18 am
5:42 pmto 5:45 pm · 3 min
NW → NE, highest 26° NNWappears northwest at 22°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 1
5:57 pmto 6:01 pm · 4 min
WNW → NE, highest 24° Nappears west-northwest at 11°, low at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 1
6:02 pmto 6:16 pm · 13 min
WNW → NE, highest 22° Nappears west-northwest at 11°, low at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 10
6:18 pmto 6:41 pm · 23 min
NW → NNE, highest 22° Nappears northwest at 12°, 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.
Seeing Starlink from Dhanbad
Dhanbad is at 23.8°N. Tonight the sky is dark enough from 5:49 pm until 5:15 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 24 visible passes (24 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 83° in the east 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): 24 passes here
Satellites from launch 2026-219 (20 September 2026) are also low and bright, but they do not pass over Dhanbad while it is dark and they are sunlit in this period.
Questions
Can I see Starlink tonight in Dhanbad?
No visible passes tonight. Next good chance: Thursday 8 Oct at 6:03 pm, looking south.
When is the next Starlink train over Dhanbad?
Thursday 8 Oct at 5:48 pm: 3 satellites from launch 2026-225, appearing in the south-southeast and reaching 12°.
Which direction should I look for Starlink from Dhanbad?
This week most passes appear in the west-northwest or west-southwest. 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-southwest. The space station is far brighter than Starlink satellites, so it is often the easier thing to spot.