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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 Peoria, Arizona · More in United States →
21 OUT OF 100

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Peoria night sky · Fri, Oct 16, dark 6:47 PM–5:41 AM MST
Clouds
49%average tonight
Moon
35%Waxing Crescent
Aurora
Kp 2.0need Kp 9+
Space station
5:12 AM31° high · W→NE
  • 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 5:12 AM, up to 31° high, moving W → NE. 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 49% effective cover during dark hours.

Updated just now. Times in America/Phoenix (MST).

Photo: Benedikt Markus · CC BY-SA 4.0

Clouds tonight
2:00 AMclouds, % of sky6:00 AM
Aurora reach
Kp 9+ needed
Magnetic latitude 41.1° 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

When (MST)HighestPath
Sat, Oct 17, 5:09 AM31°W → NE

Visible passes only: station sunlit, your sky dark. Computed from CelesTrak orbital data.

Launches within view

LaunchWhen (MST)Distance
Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 15-15Tue, Oct 20, 3:14 PM485 mi
Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 15-16Fri, Oct 23, 10:29 PM485 mi
Falcon 9 Block 5 | SDA Tranche 2 Transport Layer EWed, Dec 30, 5:00 PM485 mi
Falcon 9 Block 5 | SDA Tranche 1 Tracking Layer AWed, Dec 30, 5:00 PM485 mi

Launches within 621 mi in the coming days. Night and twilight launches are the ones to watch. Data: The Space Devs.

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Peoria, Arizona, United States · 33.58°, -112.24° · population 190,985 (GeoNames). The score is an estimate; here's how it's made.