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 – 5:20 am
No visible passes tonight.
Thursday 8 Oct
dark 5:53 pm – 5:20 am
5:54 pmto 5:56 pm · 2 min
S → SE, highest 12° SSEappears south at 11°, low at the top
≈ mag 5 · faintTrain · 1
6:03 pmto 6:29 pm · 26 min
S → ESE, highest 24° SSEappears south at 11°, low at the top
≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 22
Friday 9 Oct
dark 5:52 pm – 5:21 am
5:51 pmto 5:56 pm · 5 min
SSW → E, highest 22° SSEappears south-southwest at 11°, low at the top
≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 2
5:58 pmto 6:03 pm · 4 min
SSW → E, highest 26° SSEappears south-southwest at 12°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 1
6:05 pmto 6:09 pm · 4 min
SW → E, highest 31° SSEappears southwest at 12°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 3.5 · easyTrain · 1
6:16 pmto 6:42 pm · 25 min
SW → ESE, highest 60° Sappears southwest at 10°, high at the top
≈ mag 2.5 · brightTrain · 22
Saturday 10 Oct
dark 5:51 pm – 5:21 am
5:57 pmto 6:02 pm · 5 min
SW → E, highest 54° SEappears southwest at 12°, high at the top
≈ mag 2.5 · brightTrain · 2
6:10 pmto 6:15 pm · 4 min
WSW → ENE, highest 74° 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 86° Eappears west-southwest at 11°, almost overhead at the top
≈ mag 2.5 · brightTrain · 1
6:33 pmto 6:54 pm · 22 min
WSW → NE, highest 71° Nappears west-southwest at 11°, high at the top
≈ mag 2.5 · brightTrain · 22
Sunday 11 Oct
dark 5:50 pm – 5:21 am
6:04 pmto 6:09 pm · 5 min
WSW → ENE, highest 61° Nappears west-southwest at 10°, high at the top
≈ mag 2.5 · brightTrain · 2
6:25 pmto 6:28 pm · 3 min
W → NNE, highest 44° NNWappears west at 12°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 3.5 · easyTrain · 1
6:36 pmto 6:39 pm · 3 min
W → N, highest 38° Nappears west at 11°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 3.5 · easyTrain · 1
6:52 pmto 7:08 pm · 16 min
W → NW, highest 30° NWappears west at 11°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 22
Monday 12 Oct
dark 5:49 pm – 5:22 am
5:48 pmto 5:57 pm · 9 min
NE → ENE, highest 52° NNWappears northeast at 34°, high at the top
≈ mag 3 · easyTrain · 7
6:11 pmto 6:15 pm · 4 min
W → NE, highest 31° Nappears west at 12°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 3.5 · easyTrain · 2
6:41 pmto 6:44 pm · 2 min
WNW → NNW, highest 25° NNWappears west-northwest at 11°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 1
6:55 pmto 6:57 pm · 2 min
WNW → NW, highest 21° NWappears west-northwest at 12°, low at the top
≈ mag 5 · faintTrain · 1
Tuesday 13 Oct
dark 5:48 pm – 5:22 am
5:48 pmto 6:21 pm · 32 min
WNW → NE, highest 30° NNWappears west-northwest at 10°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 24
Wednesday 14 Oct
dark 5:47 pm – 5:22 am
5:56 pmto 6:01 pm · 5 min
WNW → NE, highest 22° Nappears west-northwest at 10°, low at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 1
6:02 pmto 6:16 pm · 14 min
WNW → NE, highest 20° NNWappears west-northwest at 10°, low at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 10
6:18 pmto 6:41 pm · 23 min
NW → NNE, highest 20° Nappears northwest at 11°, 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 Ranchi
Ranchi is at 23.3°N. Tonight the sky is dark enough from 5:54 pm until 5:20 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 22 visible passes (22 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 86° 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): 22 passes here
Satellites from launch 2026-219 (20 September 2026) are also low and bright, but they do not pass over Ranchi while it is dark and they are sunlit in this period.
Questions
Can I see Starlink tonight in Ranchi?
No visible passes tonight. Next good chance: Thursday 8 Oct at 6:03 pm, looking south.
When is the next Starlink train over Ranchi?
Thursday 8 Oct at 5:54 pm: 1 satellites from launch 2026-225, appearing in the south and reaching 12°.
Which direction should I look for Starlink from Ranchi?
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 5:08 am, looking south-southwest. The space station is far brighter than Starlink satellites, so it is often the easier thing to spot.