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Worth a lookMeknes night sky · Fri, Oct 16, dark 18:41–5:34 WET
- Aurora unlikely. Tonight's forecast peaks at Kp 3.7. From here you'd usually need about Kp 9, which takes a rare, extreme storm.
- Space station passes at 4:26, up to 75° high, moving SW → NE. It looks like a bright, steady star that crosses the sky in a few minutes.
- Moon 33% lit (Waxing Crescent), above the horizon for 27% of the dark hours.
- Clouds: about 0% effective cover during dark hours, so mostly clear.
Updated 21 min ago. Times in Africa/Casablanca (WET).
Clouds tonight
5:00clouds, % of sky6:00
Aurora reach
Kp 9+ needed
Magnetic latitude 23.5° N, too far from either auroral zone in all but the rarest storms. Tonight's forecast peak: Kp 3.7. Live map →
Moon
33% lit
Waxing Crescent. Up for 27% 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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Meknes, Morocco · 33.89°, -5.55° · population 568,295 (GeoNames). The score is an estimate; here's how it's made.