Satellites Visible Tonight from Jammu

Satellites visible from Jammu (32.7266°N, 74.8570°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.

Jammu, the winter capital of Jammu and Kashmir, rises in tiers on the Tawi river where the Shivalik hills meet the Punjab plain. The Trikuta hills, with the Vaishno Devi shrine, stand about 50 km north.

When the sky works in Jammu

Jammu gets monsoon rain in July and August and western-disturbance rain in winter. October and November give the clearest skies; summers are very hot.

Darker skies near Jammu

Patnitop, about 110 km north on the Srinagar road at around 2,000 m, sits in pine forest well above the plains' haze.

Nearby cities

Pass times for Amritsar, Srinagar.

Which satellites are visible from Jammu?

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.