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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 Kutaisi, Georgia · More in Georgia →
44 OUT OF 100

Maybe

Kutaisi night sky · Sat, Oct 17, dark 19:25–6:24 GMT+4
Clouds
24%average tonight
Moon
40%First Quarter
Aurora
Kp 2.7need Kp 9+
Space station
6:1164° high · SW→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 6:11, up to 64° high, moving SW → NE. It looks like a bright, steady star that crosses the sky in a few minutes.
  • Moon 40% lit (First Quarter), above the horizon for 32% of the dark hours.
  • Clouds: about 24% effective cover during dark hours.

Updated 32 min ago. Times in Asia/Tbilisi (GMT+4).

Photo: Benedikt Markus · CC BY-SA 4.0

Clouds tonight
17:00clouds, % of sky7:00
Aurora reach
Kp 9+ needed
Magnetic latitude 38.8° 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
First Quarter. 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+4)HighestPath
Sun, Oct 18, 6:0764°SW → 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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Kutaisi, Georgia · 42.27°, 42.69° · population 135,201 (GeoNames). The score is an estimate; here's how it's made.