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San Cristóbal de las Casas night sky · Sat, Oct 17, dark 18:34–5:16 CST
- Clouds
- 99%average tonight
- Moon
- 44%First Quarter
- Aurora
- Kp 1.7need Kp 9+
- Space station
- Noneno visible pass tonight
- Aurora unlikely. Tonight's forecast peaks at Kp 1.7. 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 44% lit (First Quarter), above the horizon for 45% of the dark hours.
- Clouds: about 99% effective cover during dark hours, which will hide most things.
Updated just now. Times in America/Merida (CST).
Photo: ESO/H.H. Heyer · CC BY 4.0
Clouds tonight
16:00clouds, % of sky6:00
Aurora reach
Kp 9+ needed
Magnetic latitude 27.4° N, too far from either auroral zone in all but the rarest storms. Tonight's forecast peak: Kp 1.7. Live map →
Moon
44% lit
First Quarter. Up for 45% 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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San Cristóbal de las Casas, Mexico · 16.73°, -92.64° · population 215,874 (GeoNames). The score is an estimate; here's how it's made.