Night Sky Alert
Star trails circling the celestial pole above a volcano, crossed by the straight line of a space station pass
Tonight in Agadir, Morocco · More in Morocco →
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Agadir night sky · Sat, Oct 17, dark 18:57–5:50 WET
Clouds
62%average tonight
Moon
42%First Quarter
Aurora
Kp 2.7need Kp 9+
Space station
5:1417° high · W→N
  • Aurora unlikely. Tonight's forecast peaks at Kp 2.7. From here you'd usually need about Kp 9, which takes a rare, extreme storm.
  • Space station passes at 5:14, up to 17° high, moving W → N. It looks like a bright, steady star that crosses the sky in a few minutes.
  • Moon 42% lit (First Quarter), above the horizon for 41% of the dark hours.
  • Clouds: about 62% effective cover during dark hours.

Updated just now. Times in Africa/Casablanca (WET).

Photo: Benedikt Markus · CC BY-SA 4.0

Clouds tonight
16:00clouds, % of sky6:00
Aurora reach
Kp 9+ needed
Magnetic latitude 17.1° N, too far from either auroral zone in all but the rarest storms. Tonight's forecast peak: Kp 2.7. Live map →
Moon
42% lit
First Quarter. Up for 41% of dark hours.
Next meteor peak
Orionids
Peak night Oct 21–22 · Moon 82% lit

Next visible space station passes

When (WET)HighestPath
Sun, Oct 18, 5:1217°W → N

Visible passes only: station sunlit, your sky dark. Computed from CelesTrak orbital data.

Launches within view

No scheduled launches within 1,000 km in the next week or so.

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Agadir, Morocco · 30.42°, -9.60° · population 698,310 (GeoNames). The score is an estimate; here's how it's made.