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Lijiang night sky · Sat, Oct 17, dark 19:39–6:29 GMT+8
- Clouds
- 23%average tonight
- Moon
- 39%Waxing Crescent
- Aurora
- Kp 2.7need Kp 9+
- Space station
- Noneno visible pass tonight
- 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.
- No visible space station pass during tonight’s dark hours.
- Moon 39% lit (Waxing Crescent), above the horizon for 36% of the dark hours.
- Clouds: about 23% effective cover during dark hours.
Updated 20 min ago. Times in Asia/Shanghai (GMT+8).
Photo: ESO/H.H. Heyer · CC BY 4.0
Clouds tonight
17:00clouds, % of sky7:00
Aurora reach
Kp 9+ needed
Magnetic latitude 22.9° 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
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 1,000 km in the next week or so.
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Lijiang, China · 26.87°, 100.22° · population 211,151 (GeoNames). The score is an estimate; here's how it's made.