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Varanasi night sky · Sat, Oct 17, dark 6:18 PM–5:07 AM IST
- Clouds
- 6%average tonight
- Moon
- 39%Waxing Crescent
- Aurora
- Kp 2.7need Kp 9+
- Space station
- Noneno visible pass tonight
- 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.
- No visible space station pass during tonight’s dark hours.
- Moon 39% lit (Waxing Crescent), above the horizon for 41% of the dark hours.
- Clouds: about 6% effective cover during dark hours, so mostly clear.
Updated 4 min ago. Times in Asia/Kolkata (IST).
Photo: ESO/H.H. Heyer · CC BY 4.0
Clouds tonight
3:30 PMclouds, % of sky5:30 AM
Aurora reach
Kp 9+ needed
Magnetic latitude 21.4° N, too far from either auroral zone in all but the rarest storms. Tonight's forecast peak: Kp 2.7. Live map →
Moon
39% lit
Waxing Crescent. Up for 41% 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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Varanasi, India · 25.32°, 83.01° · population 1,164,404 (GeoNames). The score is an estimate; here's how it's made.