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Star trails circling the celestial pole above a volcano, crossed by the straight line of a space station pass
Tonight in Donetsk, Ukraine · More in Ukraine →
14 OUT OF 100

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Donetsk night sky · Sat, Oct 17, dark 18:44–5:44 EEST
Clouds
65%average tonight
Moon
41%First Quarter
Aurora
Kp 2.7need Kp 8
Space station
5:1134° high · SW→E
  • Aurora unlikely. Tonight's forecast peaks at Kp 2.7. From here you'd usually need about Kp 8.
  • Space station passes at 5:11, up to 34° high, moving SW → E. It looks like a bright, steady star that crosses the sky in a few minutes.
  • Moon 41% lit (First Quarter), above the horizon for 26% of the dark hours.
  • Clouds: about 65% effective cover during dark hours.

Updated 10 min ago. Times in Europe/Kyiv (EEST).

Photo: Benedikt Markus · CC BY-SA 4.0

Clouds tonight
16:00clouds, % of sky6:00
Aurora reach
Kp 8 needed
Magnetic latitude 44.7° N. Look north. Tonight's forecast peak: Kp 2.7. Live map →
Moon
41% lit
First Quarter. Up for 26% 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, 5:0834°SW → E

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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Donetsk, Ukraine · 48.02°, 37.80° · population 901,645 (GeoNames). The score is an estimate; here's how it's made.