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Tonight's sky over Anchorage

Monday 26 October 2026. Sunset , properly dark from until . The Moon is waning gibbous, 98% lit, and it is up through all of tonight's darkness.

  • Mars morning
  • Jupiter morning
  • Saturn night
  • ISS 3 passes this week
  • Southern Taurids peak Thu 5 Nov
The sky over Anchorage at 20:50 on Mon 26 OctANDROMEDAAQUILAARIESAURIGABOÖTESCASSIOPEIACYGNUSPEGASUSPERSEUSURSA MAJORArcturusVegaCapellaAltairAldebaranDenebUranusNeptuneSaturnMoonNNEESESSWWNW
The sky over Anchorage at tonight, looking straight up: the edge is the horizon, north at the top, east on the left. Hold it above your head facing south to match the sky.

Tonight at a glance

Sun and twilight

Sunset
Civil twilight ends
Nautical twilight ends
Astronomical darkness
–
Sunrise

The Moon

98%

Waning Gibbous

Moonrise
Moonset
none
Moon-free darkness
none

Times between local noon today and noon tomorrow; (+1) means after midnight.

Dark-sky tip

A bright Moon tonight. Its light hides the Milky Way and fainter meteors. Use it instead: binoculars on the line between light and dark show craters in sharp relief.

Let the sky turn. The stars rise about four minutes earlier each night, so a constellation you see at 22:00 now will be in the same place at 20:00 in a month. If something is too low tonight, wait an hour or come back in a few weeks.

Tonight hour by hour

Tonight from 16:00 to 08:00: darkness, the Moon and planets above the horizon161820220002040608SkyMoonMarsJupiterSaturnUranusNeptune

Day Civil twilight Nautical Astronomical Full dark · bars show when each body is above the horizon

Planets tonight

Mars

Morning: rises around in the east-northeast, best near , 46° up in the south.

Magnitude +0.9 · in Cancer · 77° from the Sun

Jupiter

Morning: rises around in the east-northeast, best near , 42° up in the south-southeast.

Magnitude −2.0 · in Leo · 69° from the Sun

Saturn

–, highest around , 30° up in the south.

Magnitude +0.4 · in Cetus · 157° from the Sun

Uranus binoculars

Morning: rises around in the east-northeast, best near , 50° up in the south.

Magnitude +5.6 · in Taurus · 148° from the Sun

Neptune binoculars

–, highest around , 28° up in the south.

Magnitude +7.7 · in Pisces · 150° from the Sun

"Visible" means at least 5° above the horizon (15° for Uranus and Neptune) while the Sun is more than 6° below it. Directions: N, NE, E… are compass points along the horizon.

Visible ISS passes this week

DateAppearsHighestDisappearsVisible for
Tue 27 Oct SE12° SE SE0.5 min
Tue 27 Oct SW12° SSW S2.6 min
Wed 28 Oct S14° S SSE1.3 min

The International Space Station looks like a bright, steady star moving across the sky in a few minutes. Passes are computed from the latest orbital elements (epoch 2026-10-25); the station's orbit is adjusted from time to time, so a pass can shift by a minute or more. It may also fade suddenly when it enters Earth's shadow.

The next 7 nights

Night ofSunsetDarkMoonMoonrise / setMoon-free darkPlanets
Tue 27 Oct – 93% ↑ ↓ — Mars, Jupiter, Saturn
Wed 28 Oct – 86% ↑ ↓ — Mars, Jupiter, Saturn
Thu 29 Oct – 77% ↑ ↓ — Mars, Jupiter, Saturn
Fri 30 Oct – 67% ↑ ↓ 5 min Mars, Jupiter, Saturn
Sat 31 Oct – 56% ↑ ↓ 2 h 05 min Mars, Jupiter, Saturn
Sun 1 Nov – 44% ↑ ↓ 3 h 55 min Mars, Jupiter, Saturn
Mon 2 Nov – 34% ↑ ↓ 5 h 40 min Mars, Jupiter, Saturn

Moon calendar for October 2026 in Anchorage

1 Thu 69% ↑ ↓
2 Fri 58% ↑ ↓
3 Sat 47% ↑ ↓
4 Sun 36% ↓
5 Mon 25% ↑ ↓
6 Tue 16% ↑ ↓
7 Wed 9% ↑ ↓
8 Thu 4% ↑ ↓
9 Fri 1% ↑ ↓
10 Sat 0% ↑ ↓
11 Sun 2% ↑ ↓
12 Mon 5% ↑ ↓
13 Tue 10% ↑ ↓
14 Wed 17% ↑ ↓
15 Thu 25% ↑ ↓
16 Fri 33% ↑ ↓
17 Sat 42% ↑ ↓
18 Sun 52% ↑ ↓
19 Mon 61% ↑
20 Tue 70% ↑ ↓
21 Wed 79% ↑ ↓
22 Thu 87% ↑ ↓
23 Fri 93% ↑ ↓
24 Sat 98% ↑ ↓
25 Sun 100% ↑ ↓
26 Mon 99% ↑ ↓
27 Tue 96% ↑ ↓
28 Wed 90% ↑ ↓
29 Thu 82% ↑ ↓
30 Fri 72% ↑ ↓
31 Sat 62% ↑ ↓

Illumination at local noon; ↑ moonrise, ↓ moonset, local time. Phase dates for the whole world: Moon phases October 2026.

Planets this month from Anchorage

PlanetThu 1 OctThu 15 OctSat 31 Oct
Mercury not visible not visible not visible
Venus not visible not visible not visible
Mars Morning, from Morning, from Morning, from
Jupiter Morning, from Morning, from Morning, from
Saturn – – –

Coming meteor showers

Southern Taurids

Peak Thursday 5 November 2026, local

Best on the night of Wed 4 Nov around , when the radiant is 44° up. Under a dark sky expect up to about 5 meteors an hour.

Moon 12% at peak

Northern Taurids

Peak Thursday 12 November 2026, local

Best on the night of Wed 11 Nov around , when the radiant is 51° up. Under a dark sky expect up to about 4 meteors an hour.

Moon 11% at peak

Leonids

Peak Tuesday 17 November 2026, local

Best on the night of Tue 17 Nov around , when the radiant is 49° up. Under a dark sky expect up to about 11 meteors an hour, fewer this year because the Moon is 55% lit.

Moon 55% at peak

Rate = the shower's zenithal hourly rate × the sine of the radiant's altitude. Real counts are lower from towns and with moonlight; treat this as an upper guide.

Eclipses seen from Anchorage

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