Tonight in Tangier, Morocco · More in Morocco →
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Tangier night sky · Sat, Oct 17, dark 18:40–5:36 WET
- Clouds
- 28%average tonight
- Moon
- 42%First Quarter
- Aurora
- Kp 2.7need Kp 9+
- Space station
- 5:1526° high · W→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 5:15, up to 26° high, moving W → NE. It looks like a bright, steady star that crosses the sky in a few minutes.
- Moon 42% lit (First Quarter), above the horizon for 36% of the dark hours.
- Clouds: about 28% effective cover during dark hours.
Updated 24 min ago. Times in Africa/Casablanca (WET).
Photo: Benedikt Markus · CC BY-SA 4.0
Clouds tonight
16:00clouds, % of sky6:00
Aurora reach
Kp 9+ needed
Magnetic latitude 26.5° N, too far from either auroral zone in all but the rarest storms. Tonight's forecast peak: Kp 2.7. Live map →
Moon
42% 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 (WET) | Highest | Path |
|---|---|---|
| Sun, Oct 18, 5:13 | 26° | W → NE |
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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Tangier, Morocco · 35.77°, -5.80° · population 1,035,141 (GeoNames). The score is an estimate; here's how it's made.