Sun and twilight
- Sunset
- Civil twilight ends
- Nautical twilight ends
- Astronomical darkness
- –
- Sunrise
Tonight at a glance
The Moon
98%
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.
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 , 56° up in the south-southeast.
Jupiter
Morning: rises around in the east-northeast, best near , 51° up in the south-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 , 62° 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 | ENE | 32° ENE | E | 2.1 min |
| Tue 27 Oct | WNW | 75° S | ESE | 6.1 min |
| Wed 28 Oct | ENE | 10° ENE | ENE | 0.0 min |
| Wed 28 Oct | WNW | 82° NE | ESE | 4.2 min |
| Thu 29 Oct | E | 34° E | E | 2.1 min |
| Thu 29 Oct | W | 38° SSW | SE | 5.6 min |
| Fri 30 Oct | WSW | 55° SSW | SE | 3.8 min |
| Sat 31 Oct | ESE | 28° ESE | ESE | 1.7 min |
| Sat 31 Oct | WSW | 18° SW | S | 4.2 min |
| Sun 1 Nov | SSW | 26° SSW | SSE | 2.5 min |
| Mon 2 Nov | SSE | 14° SSE | SE | 0.7 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 | – | 94% | ↑ ↓ | — | Mars, Jupiter, Saturn | |
| Wed 28 Oct | – | 87% | ↑ | — | Mars, Jupiter, Saturn | |
| Thu 29 Oct | – | 78% | ↑ ↓ | 35 min | Mars, Jupiter, Saturn | |
| Fri 30 Oct | – | 68% | ↑ ↓ | 1 h 50 min | Mars, Jupiter, Saturn | |
| Sat 31 Oct | – | 56% | ↑ ↓ | 3 h 15 min | Mars, Jupiter, Saturn | |
| Sun 1 Nov | – | 45% | ↑ ↓ | 4 h 40 min | Mars, Jupiter, Saturn | |
| Mon 2 Nov | – | 34% | ↑ ↓ | 6 h 05 min | Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn |
Moon calendar for October 2026 in Vancouver
1 Thu
70%
↑ ↓
2 Fri
59%
↑ ↓
3 Sat
47%
↑ ↓
4 Sun
36%
↓
5 Mon
26%
↑ ↓
6 Tue
17%
↑ ↓
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
24%
↑ ↓
16 Fri
33%
↑ ↓
17 Sat
42%
↑ ↓
18 Sun
51%
↑ ↓
19 Mon
61%
↑
20 Tue
70%
↑ ↓
21 Wed
79%
↑ ↓
22 Thu
87%
↑ ↓
23 Fri
93%
↑ ↓
24 Sat
97%
↑ ↓
25 Sun
100%
↑ ↓
26 Mon
99%
↑ ↓
27 Tue
96%
↑ ↓
28 Wed
91%
↑ ↓
29 Thu
83%
↑ ↓
30 Fri
73%
↑ ↓
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 Vancouver
Coming meteor showers
Southern Taurids
Best on the night of Wed 4 Nov around , when the radiant is 56° up. Under a dark sky expect up to about 6 meteors an hour.
Moon 12% at peak
Northern Taurids
Best on the night of Wed 11 Nov around , when the radiant is 63° 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 57° up. Under a dark sky expect up to about 13 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 Vancouver
- Penumbral lunar eclipse, 17 August 2027: the Moon is 26° up at greatest eclipse.
- Partial lunar eclipse, 12 January 2028: the Moon is 34° up at greatest eclipse.
- Partial solar eclipse, 14 January 2029: partial, 0.8 of the Sun's diameter covered (73% of its area), maximum around , Sun 4° up.
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