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Cartagena night sky · Sat, Oct 17, dark 20:20–7:17 CEST
- Clouds
- 75%average tonight
- Moon
- 42%First Quarter
- Aurora
- Kp 2.7need Kp 9+
- Space station
- 5:4039° high · SW→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 5:40, up to 39° high, moving SW → NE. It looks like a bright, steady star that crosses the sky in a few minutes.
- Moon 42% lit (First Quarter), above the horizon for 36% of the dark hours.
- Clouds: about 75% effective cover during dark hours, which will hide most things.
Updated 15 min ago. Times in Europe/Madrid (CEST).
Photo: Benedikt Markus · CC BY-SA 4.0
Clouds tonight
18:00clouds, % of sky8:00
Aurora reach
Kp 9+ needed
Magnetic latitude 29.5° 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 36% of dark hours.
Next meteor peak
Orionids
Peak night Oct 21–22 · Moon 82% lit
Next visible space station passes
| When (CEST) | Highest | Path |
|---|---|---|
| Sun, Oct 18, 5:37 | 39° | SW → NE |
| Sun, Oct 18, 7:14 | 24° | 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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Cartagena, Spain · 37.60°, -0.98° · population 213,943 (GeoNames). The score is an estimate; here's how it's made.