Satellites Tonight

Can I see Starlink tonight in Vellore, Tamil Nadu?

No visible passes tonight.

Next good chance: Thursday 8 Oct at 6:20 pm, looking east-northeast.

Updated Times in local time (IST)12.92°, 79.13°
Also tonight over Vellore
Next pass · Thursday 8 Oct
Appears
6:20 pm
east-northeast, 21°
Highest
6:20 pm
84° north-northeast
Fades
6:29 pm
east-northeast, 10°
NESW
≈ mag 2.5 · brightTrain · 8 satellitesLaunch 2026-225 · 28 September 2026

The next 8 nights at a glance

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

Pass times, night by night

start · path · brightness

Tonight · Wednesday 7 Oct

dark 6:21 pm – 5:41 am
No visible passes tonight.

Thursday 8 Oct

dark 6:21 pm – 5:41 am
6:20 pmto 6:29 pm · 9 min
ENE → ENE, highest 84° NNEappears east-northeast at 21°, almost overhead at the top
≈ mag 2.5 · brightTrain · 8
7:18 pmto 7:27 pm · 9 min
WNW → NW, highest 17° NWappears west-northwest at 10°, low at the top
≈ mag 5 · faintTrain · 4

Friday 9 Oct

dark 6:20 pm – 5:41 am
6:19 pmto 6:42 pm · 22 min
NW → NE, highest 35° NNWappears northwest at 33°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 21

Saturday 10 Oct

dark 6:20 pm – 5:41 am
6:19 pmto 6:21 pm · 2 min
NW → NNE, highest 18° NNWappears northwest at 17°, low at the top
≈ mag 5 · faintTrain · 1

Sunday 11 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.

No visible pass of the International Space Station tonight. Next chance: Sunday 11 Oct at 5:05 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

0 visible passes in 8 nights

No visible pass of Tiangong over Vellore in the next 8 nights. Like the ISS, it is seen in spells of a week or two when its track lines up with your dusk or dawn; this page is recomputed every 6 hours.

Seeing Starlink from Vellore

Vellore is at 12.9°N. Tonight the sky is dark enough from 6:21 pm until 5:41 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 4 visible passes (4 in the evening, 0 before dawn); 2 of them should be easy to spot (estimated magnitude 4 or brighter).

The best one is on Thursday 8 Oct at 6:20 pm: it appears in the east-northeast, climbs to 84° in the north-northeast 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 Vellore while it is dark and they are sunlit in this period.

Questions

Can I see Starlink tonight in Vellore?

No visible passes tonight. Next good chance: Thursday 8 Oct at 6:20 pm, looking east-northeast.

When is the next Starlink train over Vellore?

Thursday 8 Oct at 6:20 pm: 8 satellites from launch 2026-225, appearing in the east-northeast and reaching 84°.

Which direction should I look for Starlink from Vellore?

This week most passes appear in the northwest or east-northeast. Each pass above lists where it appears, how high it climbs and where it fades.

Before you go out