Night sky tonight in Las Vegas: Moon, planets and dark hours

Tonight at a glance

Sun and twilight

Sunset: 17:50
Civil twilight ends: 18:17
Nautical twilight ends: 18:47
Astronomical darkness: 19:16 – 05:32
Sunrise: 06:58

The Moon

98%

Waning Gibbous

Moonrise: 17:59
Moonset: 08:53 (+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.

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 01:09 in the east-northeast, best near 06:30, 66° up in the southeast.

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

Jupiter

Morning: rises around 01:50 in the east-northeast, best near 06:30, 60° up in the southeast.

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

Saturn

Evening: from 18:20 low in the east-southeast, sets around 04:34 in the west.

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

Uranus binoculars

Morning: rises around 20:45 in the east-northeast, best near 02:29, 75° up in the south.

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

Neptune binoculars

Evening: from 19:05 low in the east-southeast until 03:10.

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

Date	Appears	Highest	Disappears	Visible for
Wed 28 Oct	06:13 N	14° NNE	06:16 ENE	3.9 min
Thu 29 Oct	05:26 N	11° NNE	05:27 NNE	1.6 min
Fri 30 Oct	06:13 NNW	30° NE	06:20 E	6.1 min
Sat 31 Oct	05:28 N	20° NNE	05:31 E	3.9 min
Sun 1 Nov	03:42 NE	13° NE	03:43 ENE	0.8 min
Sun 1 Nov	05:15 NW	85° SSE	05:22 SE	6.4 min
Mon 2 Nov	04:30 N	50° NE	04:34 ESE	4.1 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	17:49	19:15–05:33	94%	↑18:43 ↓10:07	—	Mars, Jupiter, Saturn
Wed 28 Oct	17:48	19:14–05:34	87%	↑19:38 ↓11:16	30 min	Mars, Jupiter, Saturn
Thu 29 Oct	17:47	19:13–05:34	78%	↑20:42	1 h 30 min	Mars, Jupiter, Saturn
Fri 30 Oct	17:46	19:12–05:35	68%	↑21:52 ↓12:15	2 h 40 min	Mars, Jupiter, Saturn
Sat 31 Oct	17:45	19:12–04:36	56%	↑23:05 ↓13:04	3 h 55 min	Mars, Jupiter, Saturn
Sun 1 Nov	16:44	18:11–04:37	45%	↑23:16 ↓12:44	5 h 05 min	Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn
Mon 2 Nov	16:43	18:10–04:38	34%	↑00:25 ↓13:17	6 h 15 min	Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn

Moon calendar for October 2026 in Las Vegas

1 Thu 70% ↑21:46 ↓12:21

2 Fri 59% ↑22:50 ↓13:25

3 Sat 47% ↓14:20

4 Sun 36% ↑00:01 ↓15:05

5 Mon 26% ↑01:13 ↓15:43

6 Tue 17% ↑02:24 ↓16:14

7 Wed 9% ↑03:33 ↓16:42

8 Thu 4% ↑04:39 ↓17:08

9 Fri 1% ↑05:43 ↓17:33

10 Sat 0% ↑06:47 ↓18:00

11 Sun 2% ↑07:51 ↓18:29

12 Mon 5% ↑08:54 ↓19:01

13 Tue 10% ↑09:57 ↓19:38

14 Wed 17% ↑10:58 ↓20:21

15 Thu 24% ↑11:54 ↓21:10

16 Fri 33% ↑12:44 ↓22:04

17 Sat 42% ↑13:28 ↓23:03

18 Sun 51% ↑14:05

19 Mon 61% ↑14:38 ↓00:03

20 Tue 70% ↑15:07 ↓01:04

21 Wed 79% ↑15:33 ↓02:05

22 Thu 87% ↑15:58 ↓03:08

23 Fri 93% ↑16:24 ↓04:11

24 Sat 97% ↑16:51 ↓05:17

25 Sun 100% ↑17:22 ↓06:25

26 Mon 99% ↑17:59 ↓07:38

27 Tue 96% ↑18:43 ↓08:53

28 Wed 91% ↑19:38 ↓10:07

29 Thu 83% ↑20:42 ↓11:16

30 Fri 73% ↑21:52 ↓12:15

31 Sat 62% ↑23:05 ↓13:04

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

Planets this month from Las Vegas

Planet	Thu 1 Oct	Thu 15 Oct	Sat 31 Oct
Mercury	not visible	not visible	not visible
Venus	not visible	not visible	not visible
Mars	Morning, from 01:40	Morning, from 01:25	Morning, from 01:05
Jupiter	Morning, from 03:10	Morning, from 02:25	Morning, from 01:30
Saturn	19:05–06:10	Evening, sets 05:19	Evening, sets 03:09

Coming meteor showers

Southern Taurids

Peak Thursday 5 November 2026, 10:54 local

Best on the night of Wed 4 Nov around 00:00, when the radiant is 69° up. Under a dark sky expect up to about 7 meteors an hour.

Moon 12% at peak

Northern Taurids

Peak Thursday 12 November 2026, 10:08 local

Best on the night of Wed 11 Nov around 00:00, when the radiant is 76° up. Under a dark sky expect up to about 5 meteors an hour.

Moon 11% at peak

Leonids

Peak Tuesday 17 November 2026, 15:43 local

Best on the night of Tue 17 Nov around 05:00, when the radiant is 71° up. Under a dark sky expect up to about 14 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 Las Vegas

Penumbral lunar eclipse, 17 August 2027: the Moon is 40° up at greatest eclipse.
Partial lunar eclipse, 12 January 2028: the Moon is 41° up at greatest eclipse.
Partial solar eclipse, 14 January 2029: partial, 0.66 of the Sun's diameter covered (57% of its area), maximum around 16:28 UTC, Sun 16° up.
Total lunar eclipse, 26 June 2029: the Moon is 3° up at greatest eclipse; 70% of totality is above the horizon.

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Tonight's sky over Las Vegas