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Gijang night sky · Sat, Oct 17, dark 18:41–5:36 GMT+9
- Clouds
- 35%average tonight
- Moon
- 38%Waxing Crescent
- Aurora
- Kp 2.0need Kp 9+
- Space station
- 4:5741° high · W→NE
- Aurora unlikely. Tonight's forecast peaks at Kp 2.0. From here you'd usually need about Kp 9, which takes a rare, extreme storm.
- Space station passes at 4:57, up to 41° high, moving W → NE. It looks like a bright, steady star that crosses the sky in a few minutes.
- Moon 38% lit (Waxing Crescent), above the horizon for 32% of the dark hours.
- Clouds: about 35% effective cover during dark hours.
Updated 30 min ago. Times in Asia/Seoul (GMT+9).
Photo: Benedikt Markus · CC BY-SA 4.0
Clouds tonight
16:00clouds, % of sky6:00
Aurora reach
Kp 9+ needed
Magnetic latitude 30.1° N, too far from either auroral zone in all but the rarest storms. Tonight's forecast peak: Kp 2.0. Live map →
Moon
38% lit
Waxing Crescent. Up for 32% of dark hours.
Next meteor peak
Orionids
Peak night Oct 21–22 · Moon 82% lit
Next visible space station passes
| When (GMT+9) | Highest | Path |
|---|---|---|
| Sun, Oct 18, 4:54 | 41° | W → NE |
Visible passes only: station sunlit, your sky dark. Computed from CelesTrak orbital data.
Launches within view
| Launch | When (GMT+9) | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| H3-24 | Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) | Tue, Oct 20, 4:41 | 563 km |
| Ceres-1S | Unknown Payload | Wed, Oct 21, 12:35 | 872 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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Gijang, South Korea · 35.24°, 129.21° · population 176,388 (GeoNames). The score is an estimate; here's how it's made.