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Lafayette night sky · Fri, Oct 16, dark 7:27 PM–6:19 AM CDT
- Clouds
- 6%average tonight
- Moon
- 35%Waxing Crescent
- Aurora
- Kp 2.0need Kp 9+
- Space station
- 5:38 AM27° high · W→N
- 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 5:38 AM, up to 27° high, moving W → N. It looks like a bright, steady star that crosses the sky in a few minutes.
- Moon 35% lit (Waxing Crescent), above the horizon for 32% of the dark hours.
- Clouds: about 6% effective cover during dark hours, so mostly clear.
Updated just now. Times in America/Chicago (CDT).
Photo: Benedikt Markus · CC BY-SA 4.0
Clouds tonight
4:00 AMclouds, % of sky7:00 AM
Aurora reach
Kp 9+ needed
Magnetic latitude 40.2° N, too far from either auroral zone in all but the rarest storms. Tonight's forecast peak: Kp 2.0. Live map →
Moon
35% 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
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 621 mi in the next week or so.
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Lafayette, Louisiana, United States · 30.22°, -92.02° · population 121,374 (GeoNames). The score is an estimate; here's how it's made.