Satellites Tonight

Can I see Starlink tonight in Kolhapur, Maharashtra?

No visible passes tonight.

Next good chance: Thursday 8 Oct at 7:17 pm, looking west-southwest.

Updated Times in local time (IST)16.70°, 74.23°
Next pass · Thursday 8 Oct
Appears
7:17 pm
west-southwest, 11°
Highest
7:19 pm
60° northwest
Fades
7:27 pm
north, 57°
NESW
≈ mag 2.5 · brightTrain · 4 satellitesLaunch 2026-225 · 28 September 2026

The next 8 nights at a glance

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

Pass times, night by night

start · path · brightness

Tonight · Wednesday 7 Oct

dark 6:40 pm – 6:02 am
No visible passes tonight.

Thursday 8 Oct

dark 6:39 pm – 6:02 am
7:17 pmto 7:27 pm · 10 min
WSW → N, highest 60° NWappears west-southwest at 11°, high at the top
≈ mag 2.5 · brightTrain · 4
7:35 pmto 8:00 pm · 25 min
W → NW, highest 37° NWappears west at 12°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 3.5 · easyTrain · 22

Friday 9 Oct

dark 6:38 pm – 6:02 am
6:38 pmto 6:41 pm · 4 min
WSW → ENE, highest 84° Nappears west-southwest at 48°, almost overhead at the top
≈ mag 2.5 · brightTrain · 2
7:23 pmto 7:27 pm · 3 min
W → NNW, highest 24° NNWappears west at 10°, low at the top
≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 2
7:31 pmto 7:33 pm · 2 min
WNW → NNW, highest 22° NNWappears west-northwest at 11°, low at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 1
7:38 pmto 7:40 pm · 2 min
WNW → NNW, highest 20° NNWappears west-northwest at 11°, low at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 1

Saturday 10 Oct

dark 6:38 pm – 6:03 am
6:37 pmto 6:54 pm · 17 min
NNE → NE, highest 37° NNWappears north-northeast at 31°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 3.5 · easyTrain · 20

Sunday 11 Oct

dark 6:37 pm – 6:03 am
6:36 pmto 6:38 pm · 2 min
N → NNE, highest 19° Nappears north at 19°, low at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 1
6:49 pmto 7:08 pm · 19 min
WNW → NNE, highest 17° NNWappears west-northwest at 10°, low at the top
≈ mag 5 · faintTrain · 22

Monday 12 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 Kolhapur

Kolhapur is at 16.7°N. Tonight the sky is dark enough from 6:40 pm until 6:02 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 9 visible passes (9 in the evening, 0 before dawn); 5 of them should be easy to spot (estimated magnitude 4 or brighter).

The best one is on Friday 9 Oct at 6:38 pm: it appears in the west-southwest, climbs to 84° in the north 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 Kolhapur while it is dark and they are sunlit in this period.

Questions

Can I see Starlink tonight in Kolhapur?

No visible passes tonight. Next good chance: Thursday 8 Oct at 7:17 pm, looking west-southwest.

When is the next Starlink train over Kolhapur?

Thursday 8 Oct at 7:17 pm: 4 satellites from launch 2026-225, appearing in the west-southwest and reaching 60°.

Which direction should I look for Starlink from Kolhapur?

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.

Nearby cities

All of Maharashtra →
Sangli 40 kmBelagavi 98 kmVijayapura 159 kmHubballi 178 kmPune 207 kmSholapur 209 km

Also tonight: the ISS

ISS pass times for Kolhapur →

No visible pass of the International Space Station tonight. Next chance: Saturday 10 Oct at 5:53 am, looking south-southwest. The space station is far brighter than Starlink satellites, so it is often the easier thing to spot.

Before you go out

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