Sun and twilight
- Sunset
- Civil twilight ends
- Nautical twilight ends
- Astronomical darkness
- –
- Sunrise
Tonight at a glance
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
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 , 42° up in the south.
Jupiter
Morning: rises around in the east-northeast, best near , 39° up in the south-southeast.
Saturn
–, highest around , 26° up in the south.
Uranus binoculars
Morning: rises around in the east-northeast, best near , 46° up in the south.
Neptune binoculars
–, highest around , 25° up in the south.
"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.
The next 7 nights
| Night of | Sunset | Dark | Moon | Moonrise / set | Moon-free dark | Planets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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% | — | Mars, Jupiter, Saturn | ||
| Sat 31 Oct | – | 56% | ↑ ↓ | 1 h 10 min | Mars, Jupiter, Saturn | |
| Sun 1 Nov | – | 44% | ↑ ↓ | 3 h 25 min | Mars, Jupiter, Saturn | |
| Mon 2 Nov | – | 34% | ↑ ↓ | 5 h 20 min | Mars, Jupiter, Saturn |
Moon calendar for October 2026 in Fairbanks
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 Fairbanks
Coming meteor showers
Southern Taurids
Best on the night of Wed 4 Nov around , when the radiant is 40° up. Under a dark sky expect up to about 5 meteors an hour.
Moon 12% at peak
Northern Taurids
Best on the night of Wed 11 Nov around , when the radiant is 47° 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 46° 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 Fairbanks
- Penumbral lunar eclipse, 17 August 2027: the Moon is 6° up at greatest eclipse.
- Partial lunar eclipse, 12 January 2028: the Moon is 21° up at greatest eclipse.
- Total lunar eclipse, 31 December 2028: the Moon is 14° up at greatest eclipse; 100% of totality is above the horizon.
- Partial solar eclipse, 12 June 2029: partial, 0.26 of the Sun's diameter covered (15% of its area), maximum around , Sun 15° up.
- Annular solar eclipse, 1 June 2030: partial, 0.31 of the Sun's diameter covered (20% of its area), maximum around , Sun 2° up.
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