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Aurora australis glowing green and red above calm southern water
Tonight in Marituba, Brazil · More in Brazil →
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Marituba night sky · Sat, Oct 17, dark 18:48–5:08 GMT-3
Clouds
23%average tonight
Moon
43%First Quarter
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 43% lit (First Quarter), above the horizon for 52% of the dark hours.
  • Clouds: about 23% effective cover during dark hours.

Updated just now. Times in America/Belem (GMT-3).

Photo: Will Standring · CC BY 2.0

Clouds tonight
16:00clouds, % of sky6:00
Aurora australis reach
Kp 9+ needed
Magnetic latitude 7.0° N, too far from either auroral zone in all but the rarest storms. Tonight's forecast peak: Kp 2.7. Live map →
Moon
43% lit
First Quarter. Up for 52% 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

LaunchWhen (GMT-3)Distance
Ariane 64 Block 2 | Amazon Leo (LE-04)Sun, Nov 22, 21:00886 km
Ariane 62 | Metop-SG B1Wed, Dec 30, 21:00886 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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Marituba, Brazil · -1.36°, -48.34° · population 119,437 (GeoNames). The score is an estimate; here's how it's made.