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Aurora australis glowing green and red above calm southern water
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Breves night sky · Fri, Oct 16, dark 18:57–5:17 GMT-3
Clouds
50%average tonight
Moon
34%Waxing Crescent
Aurora
Kp 2.3need Kp 9+
Space station
Noneno visible pass tonight
  • Aurora unlikely. Tonight's forecast peaks at Kp 2.3. From here you'd usually need about Kp 9, which takes a rare, extreme storm.
  • No visible space station pass during tonight’s dark hours.
  • Moon 34% lit (Waxing Crescent), above the horizon for 43% of the dark hours.
  • Clouds: about 50% effective cover during dark hours.

Updated 39 min ago. Times in America/Belem (GMT-3).

Photo: Will Standring · CC BY 2.0

Clouds tonight
3:00clouds, % of sky6:00
Aurora australis reach
Kp 9+ needed
Magnetic latitude 6.8° N, too far from either auroral zone in all but the rarest storms. Tonight's forecast peak: Kp 2.3. Live map →
Moon
34% lit
Waxing Crescent. Up for 43% of dark hours.
Next meteor peak
Orionids
Peak night Oct 21–22 · Moon 82% lit

Next visible space station passes

No visible passes in the next day or so. They come in runs of several days, a few times a month.

Launches within view

LaunchWhen (GMT-3)Distance
Ariane 64 Block 2 | Amazon Leo (LE-04)Sun, Nov 22, 21:00813 km
Ariane 62 | Metop-SG B1Wed, Dec 30, 21:00813 km

Launches within 1,000 km in the coming days. Night and twilight launches are the ones to watch. Data: The Space Devs.

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Breves, Brazil · -1.68°, -50.48° · population 116,058 (GeoNames). The score is an estimate; here's how it's made.