Satellites Visible Tonight from Ballari

Satellites visible from Ballari (15.1394°N, 76.9214°E) tonight, with the IST start time, direction, peak height and brightness of each pass. A pass is listed only when the satellite clears 10°, is sunlit, your sky is dark and it reaches about magnitude 4.5.

Ballari lies among bare granite hills in eastern Karnataka, about 252 km north of Bengaluru, in one of India's main iron-ore districts. The boulder-strewn ruins of Hampi, the old Vijayanagara capital, are about 60 km to the west.

When the sky works in Ballari

The district is dry, with modest rain between June and October. November to March bring clear, rain-free skies, though mining dust can haze the low horizon.

Darker skies near Ballari

Once the floodlit ruins are behind you, the boulder country around Hampi, about 60 km west, is much darker than Ballari.

Nearby cities

Pass times for Anantapur, Davanagere.

Which satellites are visible from Ballari?

The ISS is the brightest at magnitude -3 to -4, followed by China's Tiangong station, large Earth-observation satellites, spent rocket bodies and Starlink trains in the days after a launch. GPS and NavIC satellites orbit too high to see with the naked eye.