Satellites Visible Tonight from Gorakhpur

Satellites visible from Gorakhpur (26.7606°N, 83.3732°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.

Gorakhpur lies on the Rapti about 241 km east of Lucknow, around the Gorakhnath temple and the wide Ramgarh Tal lake. The Nepal border is less than 100 km north, and the farmland in between is open and lightly lit.

When the sky works in Gorakhpur

Gorakhpur gets a heavy monsoon from late June to September, with floods common on the Rapti. Winter fog is dense in December and January; October, November and March are clearer.

Planetarium and astronomy clubs

Veer Bahadur Singh Nakshatrashala, the city's planetarium, runs regular sky shows.

Nearby cities

Pass times for Ayodhya, Varanasi.

Which satellites are visible from Gorakhpur?

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.