Satellites visible from Salem (11.6643°N, 78.1460°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.
Salem lies about 280 km south-west of Chennai in a bowl of hills, with the Shevaroy range rising to the north-east and the Kanjamalai hills, rich in iron ore, to the west. The hills limit the lowest sky but offer quick escapes to height.
Rain falls in both monsoons, peaking from September to November. The dry months, January to April, are Salem's best for clear nights.
Yercaud, about 30 km up the ghat road in the Shevaroy hills at roughly 1,500 m, sits well above the city's glow.
Pass times for Erode, Tiruchirappalli.
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.