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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 Sétif, Algeria · More in Algeria →
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Sétif night sky · Sat, Oct 17, dark 18:55–5:51 CET
Clouds
83%average tonight
Moon
41%First Quarter
Aurora
Kp 2.7need Kp 9+
Space station
4:4085° high · SW→NE
  • 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.
  • Space station passes at 4:40, up to 85° high, moving SW → NE. It looks like a bright, steady star that crosses the sky in a few minutes.
  • Moon 41% lit (First Quarter), above the horizon for 36% of the dark hours.
  • Clouds: about 83% effective cover during dark hours, which will hide most things.

Updated just now. Times in Africa/Algiers (CET).

Photo: Benedikt Markus · CC BY-SA 4.0

Clouds tonight
16:00clouds, % of sky6:00
Aurora reach
Kp 9+ needed
Magnetic latitude 28.0° N, too far from either auroral zone in all but the rarest storms. Tonight's forecast peak: Kp 2.7. Live map →
Moon
41% lit
First Quarter. Up for 36% of dark hours.
Next meteor peak
Orionids
Peak night Oct 21–22 · Moon 82% lit

Next visible space station passes

When (CET)HighestPath
Sun, Oct 18, 4:3785°SW → NE
Sun, Oct 18, 6:1614°NW → N

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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Sétif, Algeria · 36.19°, 5.41° · population 252,127 (GeoNames). The score is an estimate; here's how it's made.