Tonight in Chamartín, Spain · More in Spain →
MaybeChamartín night sky · Fri, Oct 16, dark 20:32–7:28 CEST
- Aurora unlikely. Tonight's forecast peaks at Kp 3.7. From here you'd usually need about Kp 9, which takes a rare, extreme storm.
- Space station passes at 6:27, up to 37° high, moving SW → E. It looks like a bright, steady star that crosses the sky in a few minutes.
- Moon 33% lit (Waxing Crescent), above the horizon for 27% of the dark hours.
- Clouds: about 26% effective cover during dark hours.
Updated 39 min ago. Times in Europe/Madrid (CEST).
Clouds tonight
5:00clouds, % of sky8:00
Aurora reach
Kp 9+ needed
Magnetic latitude 33.4° N, too far from either auroral zone in all but the rarest storms. Tonight's forecast peak: Kp 3.7. Live map →
Moon
33% lit
Waxing Crescent. Up for 27% 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
No scheduled launches within 1,000 km in the next week or so.
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Chamartín, Spain · 40.46°, -3.68° · population 140,000 (GeoNames). The score is an estimate; here's how it's made.