Tonight's sky · Thursday, October 29, 2026
Tonight over El Paso
Darkness
- Sunset
- 6:18 PM
- Dark enough for satellites
- 6:43 PM
- Fully dark
- 7:41 PM
- Sunrise
- 7:20 AM
- Moon
- waning gibbous, 79% lit
- Clouds this evening
- mostly cloudy
Bright planets at 7:13 PM
- Venus: below the horizon, magnitude -4.2
- Jupiter: below the horizon, magnitude -2.0
- Mars: below the horizon, magnitude 0.9
- Saturn: 26° 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
The map needs JavaScript. The table below lists every pass.
Each line is the ground a satellite passes over; the bright part is when you can see it from El Paso.
| Satellite | Rises | Highest at | Max height | Path |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A satellite (OAO 2) | 5:34 AM | 5:39 AM | 70° | W → E |
| A satellite (SHIJIAN-16) | 5:48 AM | 5:52 AM | 85° | S → N |
| A spent rocket stage (DELTA 2 R/B) | 5:53 AM | 5:57 AM | 87° | SW → NE |
| A satellite (OAO 3) | 5:55 AM | 5:59 AM | 69° | W → E |
| A spent rocket stage (SL-3 R/B) | 6:02 AM | 6:04 AM | 62° | N → SW |
| A spent rocket stage (SL-16 R/B) | 6:10 AM | 6:14 AM | 64° | SW → N |
| A spent rocket stage (SL-12 R/B) | 6:25 AM | 6:29 AM | 86° | N → S |
| A satellite (BIOMASS) | 6:30 AM | 6:33 AM | 64° | SE → N |
| A satellite (AJISAI) | 6:31 AM | 6:38 AM | 88° | SW → NE |
| A satellite (SAOCOM 1B) | 6:42 AM | 6:46 AM | 75° | S → N |
Launches you might see
- Starlink Group 15-18 (Falcon 9): 9:48 PM, 1351 km to the west. Low on the horizon: look west, moving southwest, up to 5°.
A launch around dusk or dawn within about 1,500 km can light up as a glowing "jellyfish" plume. All launches and who can see them.
Aurora and meteors
Aurora: quiet (Kp 1.7). Odds of seeing it from here: unlikely.
Meteor showers: Orionids, Taurids.