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Esmeraldas night sky · Fri, Oct 16, dark 18:52–5:15 GMT-5
- Clouds
- 65%average tonight
- Moon
- 35%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 35% lit (Waxing Crescent), above the horizon for 43% of the dark hours.
- Clouds: about 65% effective cover during dark hours.
Updated just now. Times in America/Guayaquil (GMT-5).
Photo: ESO/H.H. Heyer · CC BY 4.0
Clouds tonight
1:00clouds, % of sky6:00
Aurora reach
Kp 9+ needed
Magnetic latitude 13.8° N, too far from either auroral zone in all but the rarest storms. Tonight's forecast peak: Kp 2.3. Live map →
Moon
35% 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
No scheduled launches within 1,000 km in the next week or so.
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Esmeraldas, Ecuador · 0.96°, -79.65° · population 218,727 (GeoNames). The score is an estimate; here's how it's made.