Satellites Visible Tonight from Tirupati

Satellites visible from Tirupati (13.6288°N, 79.4192°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.

Tirupati lies at the foot of the Seshachalam hills in southern Andhra Pradesh, about 346 km south-west of Amaravati. Tirumala, the temple town on the hills above, sits roughly 850 m up, and its brightly lit ghat road and temple complex make the hills the brightest part of the night sky.

When the sky works in Tirupati

Tirupati gets rain from both monsoons, and October and November are usually wettest. The cooler, dry months from December to March bring the clearest skies before the very hot summer.

Darker skies near Tirupati

Talakona waterfall, about 50 km away inside Sri Venkateswara National Park, is surrounded by forest and far from town light.

Nearby cities

Pass times for Vellore, Nellore, Chennai.

Which satellites are visible from Tirupati?

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.