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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 Tottori-shi, Japan · More in Japan →
40 OUT OF 100

Maybe

Tottori-shi night sky · Sat, Oct 17, dark 18:21–5:16 GMT+9
Clouds
1%average tonight
Moon
38%Waxing Crescent
Aurora
Kp 2.0need Kp 9+
Space station
4:5828° high · W→NE
  • Aurora unlikely. Tonight's forecast peaks at Kp 2.0. From here you'd usually need about Kp 9, which takes a rare, extreme storm.
  • Space station passes at 4:58, up to 28° high, moving W → NE. It looks like a bright, steady star that crosses the sky in a few minutes.
  • Moon 38% lit (Waxing Crescent), above the horizon for 32% of the dark hours.
  • Clouds: about 1% effective cover during dark hours, so mostly clear.

Updated 29 min ago. Times in Asia/Tokyo (GMT+9).

Photo: Benedikt Markus · CC BY-SA 4.0

Clouds tonight
16:00clouds, % of sky6:00
Aurora reach
Kp 9+ needed
Magnetic latitude 30.0° N, too far from either auroral zone in all but the rarest storms. Tonight's forecast peak: Kp 2.0. Live map →
Moon
38% 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 (GMT+9)HighestPath
Sun, Oct 18, 4:5528°W → NE

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

Launches within view

LaunchWhen (GMT+9)Distance
H3-24 | Martian Moons eXploration (MMX)Tue, Oct 20, 4:41643 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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Tottori-shi, Japan · 35.50°, 134.23° · population 188,465 (GeoNames). The score is an estimate; here's how it's made.