Satellites Tonight

Can I see Starlink tonight in Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh?

No visible passes tonight.

Next good chance: Thursday 8 Oct at 6:13 pm, looking southwest.

Updated Times in local time (IST)16.51°, 80.65°
Next pass · Thursday 8 Oct
Appears
6:13 pm
southwest, 19°
Highest
6:27 pm
60° southeast
Fades
6:29 pm
east, 12°
NESW
≈ mag 2.5 · brightTrain · 16 satellitesLaunch 2026-225 · 28 September 2026

The next 8 nights at a glance

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

Pass times, night by night

start · path · brightness

Tonight · Wednesday 7 Oct

dark 6:14 pm – 5:36 am
No visible passes tonight.

Thursday 8 Oct

dark 6:13 pm – 5:37 am
6:13 pmto 6:29 pm · 16 min
SW → E, highest 60° SEappears southwest at 19°, high at the top
≈ mag 2.5 · brightTrain · 16
7:18 pmto 7:27 pm · 9 min
W → WNW, highest 21° WNWappears west at 11°, low at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 4

Friday 9 Oct

dark 6:13 pm – 5:37 am
6:14 pmto 6:42 pm · 27 min
WSW → ENE, highest 70° NWappears west-southwest at 12°, high at the top
≈ mag 2.5 · brightTrain · 22

Saturday 10 Oct

dark 6:12 pm – 5:37 am
6:11 pmto 6:14 pm · 3 min
NNW → NE, highest 34° NNWappears north-northwest at 34°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 1
6:17 pmto 6:23 pm · 5 min
W → NE, highest 30° NNWappears west at 10°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 1
6:31 pmto 6:54 pm · 23 min
WNW → NNE, highest 24° NNWappears west-northwest at 11°, low at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 22

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.

Seeing Starlink from Vijayawada

Vijayawada is at 16.5°N. Tonight the sky is dark enough from 6:14 pm until 5:36 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 6 visible passes (6 in the evening, 0 before dawn); 4 of them should be easy to spot (estimated magnitude 4 or brighter).

The best one is on Friday 9 Oct at 6:14 pm: it appears in the west-southwest, climbs to 70° in the northwest 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 Vijayawada while it is dark and they are sunlit in this period.

Questions

Can I see Starlink tonight in Vijayawada?

No visible passes tonight. Next good chance: Thursday 8 Oct at 6:13 pm, looking southwest.

When is the next Starlink train over Vijayawada?

Thursday 8 Oct at 6:13 pm: 16 satellites from launch 2026-225, appearing in the southwest and reaching 60°.

Which direction should I look for Starlink from Vijayawada?

This week most passes appear in the west or southwest. Each pass above lists where it appears, how high it climbs and where it fades.

Nearby cities

All of Andhra Pradesh →
Guntur 31 kmRajamahendravaram 133 kmKakinada 177 kmWarangal 201 kmNellore 239 kmHyderabad 253 km

Also tonight: the ISS

ISS pass times for Vijayawada →

No visible pass of the International Space Station tonight. Next chance: Sunday 11 Oct at 5:06 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

ISS tonight in VijayawadaHow to spot StarlinkWhat the Starlink train isWhy some nights have nothing