Tonight's sky · Wednesday, October 28, 2026

Tonight over Buenos Aires

AR · -34.60, -58.38 · times in America/Argentina/Buenos_Aires

Darkness

Sunset
7:19 PM
Dark enough for satellites
7:45 PM
Fully dark
8:50 PM
Sunrise
5:54 AM
Moon
waning gibbous, 89% lit
Clouds this evening
partly cloudy

Bright planets at 8:15 PM

  • Venus — below the horizon, magnitude -4.2
  • Jupiter — below the horizon, magnitude -2.0
  • Mars — below the horizon, magnitude 0.9
  • Saturn — 37° up in the NE, magnitude 0.4

The "bright star that does not move" is usually Venus or Jupiter. The sky turns, so check the direction near your sighting time on the live page.

Satellite passes tonight

ObjectStartsPeakMax heightPath
POISK8:21 PM8:24 PM52°SW → NE
ISS (NAUKA)8:21 PM8:24 PM52°SW → NE
PROGRESS-MS 348:21 PM8:24 PM52°SW → NE
ISS (ZARYA)8:21 PM8:24 PM52°SW → NE
CZ-4B R/B9:21 PM9:25 PM81°S → N
AJISAI (EGS)2:11 AM2:18 AM85°SW → NE
SZ-21 MODULE4:15 AM4:16 AM17°S → S
COSMOS 20844:51 AM4:54 AM80°NW → SE

Starlink trains

  • 8:29 PM — train of 6, peaking 24° up, from the SW
  • 8:57 PM — train of 5, peaking 66° up, from the SE
  • 9:11 PM — train of 5, peaking 77° up, from the NE

Launches in view

No launches within 1,500 km in the next 24 hours.

Aurora & meteors

Aurora: quiet (Kp 2.33); odds from here: unlikely.

Meteor showers: Orionids, Taurids.

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