Sun and twilight
- Sunset
- Civil twilight ends
- Nautical twilight ends
- Astronomical darkness
- –
- Sunrise
Tonight at a glance
The Moon
99%
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.
Look slightly away. Faint stars and smudges show up better when you look a little to one side of them. The edge of your vision is more sensitive to dim light than the centre; astronomers call it averted vision.
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 northeast, best near , 38° up in the south.
Jupiter
Morning: rises around in the east-northeast, best near , 34° up in the south.
Saturn
–, highest around , 22° up in the south.
Uranus binoculars
Morning: rises around in the east-northeast, best near , 41° up in the south.
Neptune binoculars
–, highest around , 20° 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 | – | 95% | — | Mars, Jupiter, Saturn | ||
| Wed 28 Oct | – | 89% | — | Mars, Jupiter, Saturn | ||
| Thu 29 Oct | – | 81% | — | Mars, Jupiter, Saturn | ||
| Fri 30 Oct | – | 71% | — | Mars, Jupiter, Saturn | ||
| Sat 31 Oct | – | 60% | — | Mars, Jupiter, Saturn | ||
| Sun 1 Nov | – | 49% | ↑ ↓ | 40 min | Mars, Jupiter, Saturn | |
| Mon 2 Nov | – | 38% | ↑ ↓ | 3 h 45 min | Mars, Jupiter, Saturn |
Moon calendar for October 2026 in Tromsø
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 Tromsø
Coming meteor showers
Southern Taurids
Best on the night of Thu 5 Nov around , when the radiant is 35° up. Under a dark sky expect up to about 4 meteors an hour.
Moon 12% at peak
Northern Taurids
Best on the night of Thu 12 Nov around , when the radiant is 42° up. Under a dark sky expect up to about 3 meteors an hour.
Moon 11% at peak
Leonids
Best on the night of Tue 17 Nov around , when the radiant is 42° up. Under a dark sky expect up to about 10 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 Tromsø
- Penumbral lunar eclipse, 20 February 2027: the Moon is 29° up at greatest eclipse.
- Partial lunar eclipse, 12 January 2028: the Moon is 24° up at greatest eclipse.
- Total lunar eclipse, 31 December 2028: the Moon is 21° up at greatest eclipse; 100% of totality is above the horizon.
- Partial solar eclipse, 12 June 2029: partial, 0.28 of the Sun's diameter covered (17% of its area), maximum around , Sun 15° up.
- Total lunar eclipse, 20 December 2029: the Moon is 43° up at greatest eclipse; 100% of totality is above the horizon.
- Annular solar eclipse, 1 June 2030: partial, 0.5 of the Sun's diameter covered (38% of its area), maximum around , Sun 27° up.
- Penumbral lunar eclipse, 9 December 2030: the Moon is 42° up at greatest eclipse.
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