Satellites Visible Tonight from Nellore

Satellites visible from Nellore (14.4426°N, 79.9865°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.

Nellore sits on the Penna river near the Bay of Bengal coast, about 240 km south of Amaravati. Sriharikota, India's spaceport, lies in the same district roughly 80 km to the south-east, and on a clear night a rocket climbing out over the sea can be visible from the city.

When the sky works in Nellore

Coastal Nellore takes much of its rain from the north-east monsoon, so October and November are the wettest months. January to May is the dry stretch, with late winter the clearest time.

Darker skies near Nellore

The northern shore of Pulicat Lake, to the south towards Sriharikota, has open water and very little light.

Nearby cities

Pass times for Tirupati, Chennai.

Which satellites are visible from Nellore?

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.