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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 Yangcheng, China · More in China →
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Yangcheng night sky · Sat, Oct 17, dark 19:14–6:06 GMT+8
Clouds
63%average tonight
Moon
39%Waxing Crescent
Aurora
Kp 2.7need Kp 9+
Space station
5:2919° high · W→N
  • 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 5:29, up to 19° high, moving W → N. 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 63% effective cover during dark hours.

Updated 32 min ago. Times in Asia/Shanghai (GMT+8).

Photo: Benedikt Markus · CC BY-SA 4.0

Clouds tonight
17:00clouds, % of sky7:00
Aurora reach
Kp 9+ needed
Magnetic latitude 26.0° 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)HighestPath
Sun, Oct 18, 5:2619°W → N

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

Launches within view

No scheduled launches within 1,000 km in the next week or so.

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Yangcheng, China · 30.00°, 106.26° · population 186,242 (GeoNames). The score is an estimate; here's how it's made.