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.
Take it slowly. Start with what is easy, the Moon, bright planets and one or two constellations, and add a new pattern each clear night. Recognising the sky is learned the way you learn a neighbourhood.
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 , 62° up in the south-southeast.
Jupiter
Morning: rises around in the east-northeast, best near , 56° up in the 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 , 69° 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 | NE | 11° NE | NE | 0.2 min |
| Tue 27 Oct | NW | 23° NNE | ENE | 5.6 min |
| Wed 28 Oct | N | 19° NNE | ENE | 3.1 min |
| Thu 29 Oct | NE | 13° NE | NE | 0.7 min |
| Thu 29 Oct | NW | 40° NNE | E | 6.1 min |
| Fri 30 Oct | N | 29° NNE | E | 3.7 min |
| Sat 31 Oct | ENE | 16° ENE | ENE | 1.1 min |
| Sat 31 Oct | WNW | 80° S | SE | 5.9 min |
| Sun 1 Nov | N | 62° NE | ESE | 3.6 min |
| Mon 2 Nov | E | 19° E | E | 1.2 min |
| Mon 2 Nov | W | 28° SW | SSE | 4.7 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% | ↑ ↓ | 45 min | Mars, Jupiter, Saturn | |
| Fri 30 Oct | – | 71% | ↑ | 1 h 55 min | Mars, Jupiter, Saturn | |
| Sat 31 Oct | – | 60% | ↑ ↓ | 3 h 15 min | Mars, Jupiter, Saturn | |
| Sun 1 Nov | – | 49% | ↑ ↓ | 4 h 30 min | Mars, Jupiter, Saturn | |
| Mon 2 Nov | – | 38% | ↑ ↓ | 5 h 45 min | Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn |
Moon calendar for October 2026 in Rome
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 Rome
Coming meteor showers
Southern Taurids
Best on the night of Thu 5 Nov around , when the radiant is 63° 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 70° up. Under a dark sky expect up to about 5 meteors an hour.
Moon 11% at peak
Leonids
Best on the night of Tue 17 Nov around , when the radiant is 67° 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 Rome
- Penumbral lunar eclipse, 20 February 2027: the Moon is 57° up at greatest eclipse.
- Total solar eclipse, 2 August 2027: partial, 0.79 of the Sun's diameter covered (75% of its area), maximum around , Sun 54° up.
- Partial lunar eclipse, 12 January 2028: the Moon is 26° up at greatest eclipse.
- Annular solar eclipse, 26 January 2028: partial, 0.39 of the Sun's diameter covered (27% of its area), maximum around , Sun -1° up.
- Total lunar eclipse, 31 December 2028: the Moon is 11° up at greatest eclipse; 100% of totality is above the horizon.
- Total lunar eclipse, 26 June 2029: the Moon is 2° up at greatest eclipse; 63% of totality is above the horizon.
- Total lunar eclipse, 20 December 2029: the Moon is 70° up at greatest eclipse; 100% of totality is above the horizon.
- Annular solar eclipse, 1 June 2030: partial, 0.82 of the Sun's diameter covered (75% of its area), maximum around , Sun 14° up.
- Penumbral lunar eclipse, 9 December 2030: the Moon is 68° up at greatest eclipse.
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