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What's above you

Tonight's Sky

The station, the planets, the aurora, the Moon, and the next shooting stars — one page, every number sourced or labelled computed.

Monday 24 August

The station, over you

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Next passes over you

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Tonight’s planets

Computed from live JPL Horizons geometry

Mars is in the evening sky, setting after the Sun — 53° from the Sun.

Jupiter is in the evening sky, setting after the Sun — 19° from the Sun.

Saturn is in the evening sky, setting after the Sun — 137° from the Sun.

Venus is in the morning sky, rising before the Sun — 46° from the Sun.

Mercury is lost in the Sun's glare right now.

Solar elongation computed by JPL Horizons for today’s date; under 12° counts as lost in the glare.

The aurora, from here

Kp 1.67 · Quiet — Aurora confined to high latitudes

The Moon

Mean-phase model, computed

Waxing Gibbous, 83% illuminated.

Next meteor showers

Annual calendar — peak nights, weather permitting

Orionids — peaks 21 October, up to ~20 meteors/hour under dark skies.

Leonids — peaks 17 November, up to ~15 meteors/hour under dark skies.

Geminids — peaks 14 December, up to ~150 meteors/hour under dark skies.

ISS passes are computed from wheretheiss.at ephemeris and labelled approximate; aurora probability is NOAA’s OVATION model; planet geometry is JPL Horizons; the Moon is a mean-phase model. Your location is used for the lookup you request and is never stored on our servers.