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Xiazhen night sky · Sat, Oct 17, dark 18:29–5:24 GMT+8
- Clouds
- 70%average tonight
- Moon
- 39%Waxing Crescent
- Aurora
- Kp 2.7need Kp 9+
- Space station
- 3:5557° high · SW→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 3:55, up to 57° high, moving SW → NE. It looks like a bright, steady star that crosses the sky in a few minutes.
- Moon 39% lit (Waxing Crescent), above the horizon for 36% of the dark hours.
- Clouds: about 70% effective cover during dark hours, which will hide most things.
Updated 31 min ago. Times in Asia/Shanghai (GMT+8).
Photo: Benedikt Markus · CC BY-SA 4.0
Clouds tonight
17:00clouds, % of sky6:00
Aurora reach
Kp 9+ needed
Magnetic latitude 30.5° 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 36% of dark hours.
Next meteor peak
Orionids
Peak night Oct 21–22 · Moon 82% lit
Next visible space station passes
| When (GMT+8) | Highest | Path |
|---|---|---|
| Sun, Oct 18, 3:51 | 57° | SW → NE |
| Sun, Oct 18, 5:29 | 16° | W → N |
Visible passes only: station sunlit, your sky dark. Computed from CelesTrak orbital data.
Launches within view
| Launch | When (GMT+8) | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Ceres-1S | Unknown Payload | Wed, Oct 21, 11:35 | 236 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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Xiazhen, China · 34.80°, 117.11° · population 125,667 (GeoNames). The score is an estimate; here's how it's made.