Satellites Visible Tonight from Mandi

Satellites visible from Mandi (31.7087°N, 76.9320°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.

Mandi stands on the Beas at about 800 m, roughly 71 km north of Shimla, and is called the Varanasi of the hills for its many old temples. The town sits in a deep river valley, so the ridges around it hide the lowest part of the sky.

When the sky works in Mandi

Heavy monsoon rain falls from July to September. Winters are milder than in the higher valleys, and October to March brings the most clear nights.

Darker skies near Mandi

Rewalsar lake, about 25 km south-west in the hills, has a quieter, darker sky than the town.

Nearby cities

Pass times for Manali, Shimla.

Which satellites are visible from Mandi?

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.