Night sky tonight in Ushuaia: Moon, planets and dark hours

Tonight at a glance

Sun and twilight

Sunset: 20:37
Civil twilight ends: 21:18
Nautical twilight ends: 22:11
Astronomical darkness: 23:19 – 03:14
Sunrise: 05:55

The Moon

99%

Waning Gibbous

Moonrise: 22:11
Moonset: 05:49 (+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.

Binoculars first. Ordinary 7x50 or 10x50 binoculars show Jupiter's four largest moons, the Moon's craters, the Pleiades and countless clusters. They are easier to start with than a telescope and need no setting up.

Tonight hour by hour

Day Civil twilight Nautical Astronomical Full dark · bars show when each body is above the horizon

Planets tonight

Mercury

Evening: from 21:20 low in the west-southwest, sets around 21:45 in the west-southwest.

Magnitude +0.7 · in Libra · 18° from the Sun

Mars

05:00–05:10, highest around 05:10, 7° up in the northeast.

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

Jupiter

05:00–05:10, highest around 05:10, 6° up in the northeast.

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

Saturn

Evening: from 21:20 low in the northeast, sets around 05:05 in the west.

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

Neptune binoculars

Evening: from 22:45 low in the north until 03:35.

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.

The next 7 nights

Night of	Sunset	Dark	Moon	Moonrise / set	Moon-free dark	Planets
Tue 27 Oct	20:40	23:23–03:09	95%	↑23:48 ↓06:17	30 min	Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn
Wed 28 Oct	20:42	23:28–03:05	88%	↑01:15 ↓07:03	1 h 50 min	Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn
Thu 29 Oct	20:44	23:32–03:00	80%	↑02:20 ↓08:13	2 h 50 min	Mars, Jupiter, Saturn
Fri 30 Oct	20:46	23:37–02:55	69%	↑03:02 ↓09:40	3 h 20 min	Mars, Jupiter, Saturn
Sat 31 Oct	20:48	23:42–02:49	58%	↑03:28 ↓11:14	3 h 05 min	Mars, Jupiter, Saturn
Sun 1 Nov	20:50	23:48–02:44	47%	↑03:44	2 h 55 min	Mars, Jupiter, Saturn
Mon 2 Nov	20:52	23:54–02:38	36%	↑03:56 ↓12:46	2 h 45 min	Mars, Jupiter, Saturn

Moon calendar for October 2026 in Ushuaia

1 Thu 72% ↑02:12 ↓08:18

2 Fri 61% ↑03:30 ↓09:10

3 Sat 49% ↑04:26 ↓10:24

4 Sun 38% ↑05:01 ↓11:54

5 Mon 27% ↑05:23 ↓13:28

6 Tue 18% ↑05:37 ↓14:59

7 Wed 10% ↑05:48 ↓16:27

8 Thu 5% ↑05:56 ↓17:52

9 Fri 1% ↑06:04 ↓19:16

10 Sat 0% ↑06:12 ↓20:38

11 Sun 1% ↑06:21 ↓22:01

12 Mon 4% ↑06:33 ↓23:24

13 Tue 9% ↑06:50

14 Wed 15% ↑07:13 ↓00:43

15 Thu 23% ↑07:48 ↓01:54

16 Fri 31% ↑08:37 ↓02:51

17 Sat 40% ↑09:41 ↓03:33

18 Sun 50% ↑10:54 ↓04:01

19 Mon 59% ↑12:13 ↓04:20

20 Tue 69% ↑13:32 ↓04:34

21 Wed 77% ↑14:53 ↓04:44

22 Thu 85% ↑16:14 ↓04:53

23 Fri 92% ↑17:37 ↓05:01

24 Sat 97% ↑19:04 ↓05:09

25 Sun 99% ↑20:35 ↓05:18

26 Mon 100% ↑22:11 ↓05:31

27 Tue 97% ↑23:48 ↓05:49

28 Wed 92% ↓06:17

29 Thu 84% ↑01:15 ↓07:03

30 Fri 75% ↑02:20 ↓08:13

31 Sat 64% ↑03:02 ↓09:40

Illumination at local noon; ↑ moonrise, ↓ moonset, local time. Moon pictures are drawn as seen from the southern hemisphere, lit side reversed. Phase dates for the whole world: Moon phases October 2026.

Planets this month from Ushuaia

Planet	Thu 1 Oct	Thu 15 Oct	Sat 31 Oct
Mercury	Evening, sets 21:30	Evening, sets 22:10	not visible
Venus	Evening, sets 22:30	Evening, sets 21:20	not visible
Mars	06:04–06:15	05:30–05:40	04:45–05:00
Jupiter	not visible	not visible	04:45–05:00
Saturn	Morning, from 20:25	Evening, sets 05:40	Evening, sets 04:45

Coming meteor showers

Southern Taurids

Peak Thursday 5 November 2026, 15:54 local

Best on the night of Thu 5 Nov around 02:00, when the radiant is 20° up. Under a dark sky expect up to about 2 meteors an hour.

Moon 12% at peak

Northern Taurids

Peak Thursday 12 November 2026, 15:08 local

Best on the night of Thu 12 Nov around 02:00, when the radiant is 13° up. Under a dark sky expect up to about 1 meteors an hour.

Moon 11% at peak

Leonids

Peak Tuesday 17 November 2026, 20:43 local

The radiant is only up in daylight or twilight from here on the peak night; few meteors will be seen.

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 Ushuaia

Annular solar eclipse, 6 February 2027: partial, 0.64 of the Sun's diameter covered (53% of its area), maximum around 14:58 UTC, Sun 46° up.
Penumbral lunar eclipse, 17 August 2027: the Moon is 37° up at greatest eclipse.
Partial lunar eclipse, 12 January 2028: the Moon is 11° up at greatest eclipse.
Total lunar eclipse, 26 June 2029: the Moon is 55° up at greatest eclipse; 100% of totality is above the horizon.
Partial solar eclipse, 11 July 2029: partial, 0.18 of the Sun's diameter covered (9% of its area), maximum around 15:43 UTC, Sun 12° up.
Partial solar eclipse, 5 December 2029: partial, 0.07 of the Sun's diameter covered (2% of its area), maximum around 14:32 UTC, Sun 52° up.

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Tonight's sky over Ushuaia