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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 Sherbrooke, Quebec · More in Canada →
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Sherbrooke night sky · Fri, Oct 16, dark 7:04 PM–6:02 AM EDT
Clouds
95%average tonight
Moon
34%Waxing Crescent
Aurora
Kp 2.3need Kp 5
Space station
5:07 AM25° high · S→E
  • Aurora unlikely. Tonight's forecast peaks at Kp 2.3. From here you'd usually need about Kp 5.
  • Space station passes at 5:07 AM, up to 25° high, moving S → E. It looks like a bright, steady star that crosses the sky in a few minutes.
  • Moon 34% lit (Waxing Crescent), above the horizon for 23% of the dark hours.
  • Clouds: about 95% effective cover during dark hours, which will hide most things.

Updated just now. Times in America/Toronto (EDT).

Photo: Benedikt Markus · CC BY-SA 4.0

Clouds tonight
2:00 AMclouds, % of sky7:00 AM
Aurora reach
Kp 5 needed
Magnetic latitude 53.1° N. Look north. Tonight's forecast peak: Kp 2.3. Live map →
Moon
34% lit
Waxing Crescent. Up for 23% 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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Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada · 45.40°, -71.90° · population 129,447 (GeoNames). The score is an estimate; here's how it's made.