Night Sky Alert
Tonight in Tijuana, Mexico · More in Mexico →
45 OUT OF 100

MaybeTijuana night sky · Fri, Oct 16, dark 19:07–6:00 PDT

  • Aurora unlikely. Tonight's forecast peaks at Kp 3.3. From here you'd usually need about Kp 9, which takes a rare, extreme storm.
  • Space station passes at 5:11, up to 42° high, moving SW → 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 22% effective cover during dark hours.

Updated 2 min ago. Times in America/Tijuana (PDT).

Clouds tonight
21:00clouds, % of sky7:00
Aurora reach
Kp 9+ needed
Magnetic latitude 39.2° N, too far from either auroral zone in all but the rarest storms. Tonight's forecast peak: Kp 3.3. 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 (PDT)HighestPath
Sat, Oct 17, 5:0842°SW → NE

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

Launches within view

LaunchWhen (PDT)Distance
Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 15-15Tue, Oct 20, 15:14410 km
Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 15-16Fri, Oct 23, 22:29410 km
Falcon 9 Block 5 | SDA Tranche 2 Transport Layer EWed, Dec 30, 16:00410 km
Falcon 9 Block 5 | SDA Tranche 1 Tracking Layer AWed, Dec 30, 16:00410 km

Launches within 1,000 km in the coming days. Night and twilight launches are the ones to watch. Data: The Space Devs.

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Tijuana, Mexico · 32.50°, -117.00° · population 1,922,523 (GeoNames). The score is an estimate; here's how it's made.