dark skytraineasy (mag ≤ 3.5)moderate (≤ 4)faint (≤ 5)
Pass times, night by night
start · path · brightness
Tonight · Wednesday 7 Oct
dark 5:54 pm – 5:21 am
No visible passes tonight.
Thursday 8 Oct
dark 5:53 pm – 5:22 am
6:04 pmto 6:29 pm · 25 min
SSE → SE, highest 16° SSEappears south-southeast at 10°, low at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 22
Friday 9 Oct
dark 5:52 pm – 5:22 am
5:52 pmto 6:01 pm · 9 min
S → ESE, highest 17° SSEappears south at 11°, low at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 3
6:05 pmto 6:08 pm · 3 min
SSW → ESE, highest 20° SSEappears south-southwest at 11°, low at the top
≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 1
6:16 pmto 6:43 pm · 27 min
SSW → ESE, highest 36° Sappears south-southwest at 11°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 3.5 · easyTrain · 22
Saturday 10 Oct
dark 5:51 pm – 5:22 am
5:57 pmto 6:02 pm · 5 min
SW → E, highest 31° SSEappears southwest at 11°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 3.5 · easyTrain · 2
6:06 pmto 6:10 pm · 4 min
SW → E, highest 38° SSEappears southwest at 10°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 3.5 · easyTrain · 1
6:18 pmto 6:22 pm · 4 min
SW → ESE, highest 50° Sappears southwest at 11°, high at the top
≈ mag 3 · easyTrain · 1
6:32 pmto 6:57 pm · 25 min
WSW → SE, highest 71° Sappears west-southwest at 11°, high at the top
≈ mag 2.5 · brightTrain · 22
Sunday 11 Oct
dark 5:50 pm – 5:23 am
6:02 pmto 6:08 pm · 6 min
WSW → E, highest 71° SSEappears west-southwest at 11°, high at the top
≈ mag 2.5 · brightTrain · 2
6:17 pmto 6:21 pm · 4 min
WSW → ENE, highest 83° ENEappears west-southwest at 11°, almost overhead at the top
≈ mag 2.5 · brightTrain · 1
6:34 pmto 6:37 pm · 3 min
W → NNW, highest 67° NNWappears west at 11°, high at the top
≈ mag 2.5 · brightTrain · 1
6:50 pmto 7:13 pm · 22 min
W → WNW, highest 39° WNWappears west at 10°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 22
Monday 12 Oct
dark 5:49 pm – 5:23 am
5:48 pmto 6:02 pm · 14 min
WSW → ENE, highest 86° WSWappears west-southwest at 35°, almost overhead at the top
≈ mag 2.5 · brightTrain · 17
6:07 pmto 6:13 pm · 5 min
W → ENE, highest 57° NNWappears west at 10°, high at the top
≈ mag 2.5 · brightTrain · 2
6:29 pmto 6:32 pm · 3 min
W → NNE, highest 44° NNWappears west at 12°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 3 · easyTrain · 1
6:52 pmto 6:54 pm · 2 min
WNW → NW, highest 30° NWappears west-northwest at 12°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 1
Tuesday 13 Oct
dark 5:48 pm – 5:24 am
5:54 pmto 6:24 pm · 30 min
W → ENE, highest 50° NNWappears west at 10°, high at the top
≈ mag 3 · easyTrain · 24
6:41 pmto 6:44 pm · 2 min
WNW → NNW, highest 29° NNWappears west-northwest at 11°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 1
Wednesday 14 Oct
dark 5:47 pm – 5:24 am
5:53 pmto 5:58 pm · 5 min
WNW → ENE, highest 36° Nappears west-northwest at 12°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 3.5 · easyTrain · 1
6:15 pmto 6:46 pm · 31 min
WNW → NE, highest 32° NNWappears west-northwest at 11°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 24
6:55 pmto 6:56 pm · 1 min
WNW → NW, highest 19° NWappears west-northwest at 11°, low at the top
≈ mag 5 · faintTrain · 1
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 Patna
Patna is at 25.6°N. Tonight the sky is dark enough from 5:54 pm until 5:21 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 21 visible passes (21 in the evening, 0 before dawn); 18 of them should be easy to spot (estimated magnitude 4 or brighter).
The best one is on Monday 12 Oct at 5:48 pm: it appears in the west-southwest, climbs to 86° in the west-southwest 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 296–315 km up): 21 passes here
Satellites from launch 2026-219 (20 September 2026) are also low and bright, but they do not pass over Patna while it is dark and they are sunlit in this period.
Questions
Can I see Starlink tonight in Patna?
No visible passes tonight. Next good chance: Friday 9 Oct at 6:05 pm, looking south-southwest.
When is the next Starlink train over Patna?
Thursday 8 Oct at 6:04 pm: 22 satellites from launch 2026-225, appearing in the south-southeast and reaching 16°.
Which direction should I look for Starlink from Patna?
This week most passes appear in the west or west-northwest. Each pass above lists where it appears, how high it climbs and where it fades.