Sun and twilight
- Sunset
- Civil twilight ends
- Nautical twilight ends
- Astronomical darkness
- –
- Sunrise
Tonight at a glance
The Moon
99%
Waning Gibbous
- Moonrise
- Moonset
- (+1)
- 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.
Find real darkness. Even a short drive away from street lighting makes a big difference: the Milky Way needs a sky where you cannot read by the glow on the horizon. Look for a site with an open view low down in the direction you are interested in.
Tonight hour by hour
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 , 55° up in the south-southeast.
Jupiter
Morning: rises around in the east-northeast, best near , 50° up in the south-southeast.
Saturn
Evening: from low in the east-southeast, sets around in the west.
Uranus binoculars
Morning: rises around in the east-northeast, best near , 60° up in the south.
Neptune binoculars
Evening: from low in the east-southeast until .
"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
| Date | Appears | Highest | Disappears | Visible for |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tue 27 Oct | E | 11° E | E | 0.2 min |
| Tue 27 Oct | WNW | 84° NW | E | 4.0 min |
| Wed 28 Oct | E | 35° E | E | 2.1 min |
| Wed 28 Oct | W | 47° SSW | SE | 5.7 min |
| Thu 29 Oct | E | 10° E | E | 0.0 min |
| Thu 29 Oct | WSW | 63° S | ESE | 3.8 min |
| Fri 30 Oct | ESE | 31° ESE | ESE | 1.9 min |
| Fri 30 Oct | W | 25° SSW | SSE | 4.8 min |
| Sat 31 Oct | SSW | 34° SSW | SE | 3.0 min |
| Sun 1 Nov | SE | 19° SE | SE | 1.2 min |
| Sun 1 Nov | WSW | 12° SW | SSW | 2.4 min |
| Mon 2 Nov | SSW | 15° SSW | S | 1.3 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 of | Sunset | Dark | Moon | Moonrise / set | Moon-free dark | Planets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tue 27 Oct | – | 95% | ↑ ↓ | — | Mars, Jupiter, Saturn | |
| Wed 28 Oct | – | 89% | ↑ | — | Mars, Jupiter, Saturn | |
| Thu 29 Oct | – | 81% | ↑ ↓ | — | Mars, Jupiter, Saturn | |
| Fri 30 Oct | – | 71% | ↑ ↓ | 1 h 10 min | Mars, Jupiter, Saturn | |
| Sat 31 Oct | – | 60% | ↑ ↓ | 2 h 35 min | Mars, Jupiter, Saturn | |
| Sun 1 Nov | – | 49% | ↑ ↓ | 4 h 05 min | Mars, Jupiter, Saturn | |
| Mon 2 Nov | – | 38% | ↑ ↓ | 5 h 30 min | Mars, Jupiter, Saturn |
Moon calendar for October 2026 in Brussels
1 Thu
74%
↑ ↓
2 Fri
63%
↑ ↓
3 Sat
52%
↑ ↓
4 Sun
40%
↓
5 Mon
30%
↑ ↓
6 Tue
20%
↑ ↓
7 Wed
12%
↑ ↓
8 Thu
6%
↑ ↓
9 Fri
2%
↑ ↓
10 Sat
0%
↑ ↓
11 Sun
1%
↑ ↓
12 Mon
3%
↑ ↓
13 Tue
8%
↑ ↓
14 Wed
14%
↑ ↓
15 Thu
21%
↑ ↓
16 Fri
29%
↑ ↓
17 Sat
38%
↑ ↓
18 Sun
48%
↑ ↓
19 Mon
57%
↑
20 Tue
67%
↑ ↓
21 Wed
76%
↑ ↓
22 Thu
84%
↑ ↓
23 Fri
91%
↑ ↓
24 Sat
96%
↑ ↓
25 Sun
99%
↑ ↓
26 Mon
100%
↑ ↓
27 Tue
98%
↑ ↓
28 Wed
93%
↑ ↓
29 Thu
85%
↑ ↓
30 Fri
76%
↑ ↓
31 Sat
66%
↑ ↓
Illumination at local noon; ↑ moonrise, ↓ moonset, local time. Phase dates for the whole world: Moon phases October 2026.
Planets this month from Brussels
Coming meteor showers
Southern Taurids
Best on the night of Thu 5 Nov around , when the radiant is 54° up. Under a dark sky expect up to about 6 meteors an hour.
Moon 12% at peak
Northern Taurids
Best on the night of Thu 12 Nov around , when the radiant is 61° up. Under a dark sky expect up to about 4 meteors an hour.
Moon 11% at peak
Leonids
Best on the night of Tue 17 Nov around , when the radiant is 59° up. Under a dark sky expect up to about 13 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 Brussels
- Penumbral lunar eclipse, 20 February 2027: the Moon is 47° up at greatest eclipse.
- Total solar eclipse, 2 August 2027: partial, 0.53 of the Sun's diameter covered (43% of its area), maximum around , Sun 43° up.
- Partial lunar eclipse, 12 January 2028: the Moon is 32° up at greatest eclipse.
- Annular solar eclipse, 26 January 2028: partial, 0.51 of the Sun's diameter covered (39% of its area), maximum around , Sun -1° up.
- Total lunar eclipse, 31 December 2028: the Moon is 9° up at greatest eclipse; 100% of totality is above the horizon.
- Partial solar eclipse, 12 June 2029: partial, 0.05 of the Sun's diameter covered (1% of its area), maximum around , Sun -1° up.
- Total lunar eclipse, 26 June 2029: the Moon is 1° up at greatest eclipse; 57% of totality is above the horizon.
- Total lunar eclipse, 20 December 2029: the Moon is 60° up at greatest eclipse; 100% of totality is above the horizon.
- Annular solar eclipse, 1 June 2030: partial, 0.62 of the Sun's diameter covered (52% of its area), maximum around , Sun 14° up.
- Penumbral lunar eclipse, 9 December 2030: the Moon is 58° up at greatest eclipse.
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