Tonight's sky · Friday, October 30, 2026
Tonight over Datong
Darkness
- Sunset
- 5:27 PM
- Dark enough for satellites
- 5:55 PM
- Fully dark
- 6:58 PM
- Sunrise
- 6:54 AM
- Moon
- waning gibbous, 79% lit
- Clouds this evening
- clear
Bright planets at 6:25 PM
- Venus: below the horizon, magnitude -4.2
- Jupiter: below the horizon, magnitude -2.0
- Mars: below the horizon, magnitude 0.9
- Saturn: 22° up in the east, magnitude 0.4
That "bright star that doesn't move" is usually Venus or Jupiter. The sky turns slowly, so check the Live page for where they were when you saw something.
Satellite passes tonight
Working out tonight's passes for Datong. It usually takes under a minute, and this page will reload itself when they're ready.
Launches you might see
No launches within 1,500 km in the next 24 hours. See every upcoming launch.
Aurora and meteors
Aurora: quiet (Kp 1.7). Odds of seeing it from here: unlikely.
Meteor showers: Orionids, Taurids.