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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 Pavlodar, Kazakhstan · More in Kazakhstan →
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Pavlodar night sky · Sat, Oct 17, dark 18:07–5:08 GMT+5
Clouds
76%average tonight
Moon
40%Waxing Crescent
Aurora
Kp 2.7need Kp 6
Space station
4:0512° high · S→SE
  • Aurora unlikely. Tonight's forecast peaks at Kp 2.7. From here you'd usually need about Kp 6.
  • Space station passes at 4:05, up to 12° high, moving S → SE. It looks like a bright, steady star that crosses the sky in a few minutes.
  • Moon 40% lit (Waxing Crescent), above the horizon for 22% of the dark hours.
  • Clouds: about 76% effective cover during dark hours, which will hide most things.

Updated 25 min ago. Times in Asia/Almaty (GMT+5).

Photo: Benedikt Markus · CC BY-SA 4.0

Clouds tonight
16:00clouds, % of sky6:00
Aurora reach
Kp 6 needed
Magnetic latitude 49.4° N. Look north. Tonight's forecast peak: Kp 2.7. Live map →
Moon
40% lit
Waxing Crescent. Up for 22% of dark hours.
Next meteor peak
Orionids
Peak night Oct 21–22 · Moon 82% lit

Next visible space station passes

When (GMT+5)HighestPath
Sun, Oct 18, 4:0312°S → SE
Sun, Oct 18, 5:3842°SW → E

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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Pavlodar, Kazakhstan · 52.28°, 76.97° · population 329,002 (GeoNames). The score is an estimate; here's how it's made.