Satellites Visible Tonight from Kakinada

Satellites visible from Kakinada (16.9891°N, 82.2475°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.

Kakinada is a port on the Bay of Bengal at the northern edge of the Godavari delta, about 179 km east of Amaravati. The sea lies to the east, and the Coringa mangroves just south of the city form one of the darkest stretches of this coast.

When the sky works in Kakinada

Rain arrives with the south-west monsoon in June, but the coast is most exposed to Bay of Bengal cyclones in October and November. December to March bring the driest nights.

Darker skies near Kakinada

Coringa Wildlife Sanctuary, in the mangroves about 20 km south, has almost no lighting.

Nearby cities

Pass times for Rajahmundry, Visakhapatnam.

Which satellites are visible from Kakinada?

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.