Satellites Visible Tonight from Ooty

Satellites visible from Ooty (11.4102°N, 76.6950°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.

Ooty sits at about 2,240 m in the Nilgiris, beneath Doddabetta, which rises to 2,637 m. At that altitude the dusty lowland air stays far below, and the Ooty Radio Telescope, a 530 m cylindrical antenna run by TIFR, lies on a slope nearby at Muthorai.

When the sky works in Ooty

Two monsoons water the Nilgiris, from June to September and again in October and November. Between December and April the hills dry out, and frosty winter nights are exceptionally clear.

Darker skies near Ooty

The grasslands towards Avalanche and Upper Bhavani, south-west of the town, are high, remote and dark.

Nearby cities

Pass times for Coimbatore, Mysuru.

Which satellites are visible from Ooty?

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.