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Star trails circling the celestial pole above a volcano, crossed by the straight line of a space station pass
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52 OUT OF 100

Worth a look

Xiva night sky · Sat, Oct 17, dark 19:14–6:13 GMT+5
Clouds
9%average tonight
Moon
40%Waxing Crescent
Aurora
Kp 2.7need Kp 9+
Space station
5:3788° 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 5:37, up to 88° high, moving SW → NE. It looks like a bright, steady star that crosses the sky in a few minutes.
  • Moon 40% lit (Waxing Crescent), above the horizon for 32% of the dark hours.
  • Clouds: about 9% effective cover during dark hours, so mostly clear.

Updated 30 min ago. Times in Asia/Samarkand (GMT+5).

Photo: Benedikt Markus · CC BY-SA 4.0

Clouds tonight
17:00clouds, % of sky7:00
Aurora reach
Kp 9+ needed
Magnetic latitude 38.3° N, too far from either auroral zone in all but the rarest storms. Tonight's forecast peak: Kp 2.7. Live map →
Moon
40% 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+5)HighestPath
Sun, Oct 18, 5:3388°SW → NE

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

Launches within view

LaunchWhen (GMT+5)Distance
Soyuz 2.1b | Progress MS-36 (97P)Tue, Nov 24, 10:03573 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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Xiva, Uzbekistan · 41.39°, 60.36° · population 115,000 (GeoNames). The score is an estimate; here's how it's made.