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Khujand night sky · Sat, Oct 17, dark 18:38–5:35 GMT+5
- Clouds
- 26%average tonight
- Moon
- 40%Waxing Crescent
- Aurora
- Kp 2.7need Kp 9+
- Space station
- 4:0127° high · S→E
- 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 4:01, up to 27° high, moving S → E. It looks like a bright, steady star that crosses the sky in a few minutes.
- Moon 40% lit (Waxing Crescent), above the horizon for 32% of the dark hours.
- Clouds: about 26% effective cover during dark hours.
Updated 2 min ago. Times in Asia/Dushanbe (GMT+5).
Photo: Benedikt Markus · CC BY-SA 4.0
Clouds tonight
16:00clouds, % of sky6:00
Aurora reach
Kp 9+ needed
Magnetic latitude 37.1° N, too far from either auroral zone in all but the rarest storms. Tonight's forecast peak: Kp 2.7. Live map →
Moon
40% 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+5) | Highest | Path |
|---|---|---|
| Sun, Oct 18, 3:59 | 27° | S → E |
| Sun, Oct 18, 5:35 | 36° | W → NE |
Visible passes only: station sunlit, your sky dark. Computed from CelesTrak orbital data.
Launches within view
| Launch | When (GMT+5) | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Soyuz 2.1b | Progress MS-36 (97P) | Tue, Nov 24, 10:03 | 803 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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Khujand, Tajikistan · 40.28°, 69.62° · population 191,000 (GeoNames). The score is an estimate; here's how it's made.