Night Sky Alert
Star trails circling the celestial pole above a volcano, crossed by the straight line of a space station pass
Tonight in Beirut, Lebanon · More in Lebanon →
26 OUT OF 100

Maybe

Beirut night sky · Sat, Oct 17, dark 18:56–5:50 EEST
Clouds
36%average tonight
Moon
41%First Quarter
Aurora
Kp 2.7need Kp 9+
Space station
5:0832° high · W→NE
  • 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 5:08, up to 32° high, moving W → NE. It looks like a bright, steady star that crosses the sky in a few minutes.
  • Moon 41% lit (First Quarter), above the horizon for 36% of the dark hours.
  • Clouds: about 36% effective cover during dark hours.

Updated 17 min ago. Times in Asia/Beirut (EEST).

Photo: Benedikt Markus · CC BY-SA 4.0

Clouds tonight
16:00clouds, % of sky6:00
Aurora reach
Kp 9+ needed
Magnetic latitude 29.3° N, too far from either auroral zone in all but the rarest storms. Tonight's forecast peak: Kp 2.7. Live map →
Moon
41% lit
First Quarter. Up for 36% of dark hours.
Next meteor peak
Orionids
Peak night Oct 21–22 · Moon 82% lit

Next visible space station passes

When (EEST)HighestPath
Sun, Oct 18, 5:0532°W → NE

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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Beirut, Lebanon · 33.89°, 35.50° · population 1,916,100 (GeoNames). The score is an estimate; here's how it's made.