Satellites Visible Tonight from Puri

Satellites visible from Puri (19.8135°N, 85.8312°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.

Puri lies on the Bay of Bengal about 54 km south of Bhubaneswar, around the Jagannath temple. The beach faces south-east over open sea, and the Konark Sun Temple, about 35 km up the coast, was built as a giant stone chariot whose carved wheels work as sundials.

When the sky works in Puri

Rain arrives in mid-June and lasts into October, and the coast is exposed to cyclones in October and November. December to February bring the driest, clearest nights.

Darker skies near Puri

The coast road towards Konark, through the Balukhand sanctuary, is lined with casuarina forest and very few lights.

Nearby cities

Pass times for Bhubaneswar, Cuttack.

Which satellites are visible from Puri?

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.