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Guangyuan night sky · Sat, Oct 17, dark 19:15–6:08 GMT+8
- Clouds
- 54%average tonight
- Moon
- 39%Waxing Crescent
- Aurora
- Kp 2.7need Kp 9+
- Space station
- 5:2927° high · W→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 5:29, up to 27° high, moving W → NE. It looks like a bright, steady star that crosses the sky in a few minutes.
- Moon 39% lit (Waxing Crescent), above the horizon for 36% of the dark hours.
- Clouds: about 54% effective cover during dark hours.
Updated 6 min ago. Times in Asia/Shanghai (GMT+8).
Photo: Benedikt Markus · CC BY-SA 4.0
Clouds tonight
18:00clouds, % of sky7:00
Aurora reach
Kp 9+ needed
Magnetic latitude 28.5° N, too far from either auroral zone in all but the rarest storms. Tonight's forecast peak: Kp 2.7. Live map →
Moon
39% lit
Waxing Crescent. Up for 36% of dark hours.
Next meteor peak
Orionids
Peak night Oct 21–22 · Moon 82% lit
Next visible space station passes
| When (GMT+8) | Highest | Path |
|---|---|---|
| Sun, Oct 18, 5:26 | 27° | 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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Guangyuan, China · 32.44°, 105.82° · population 516,424 (GeoNames). The score is an estimate; here's how it's made.