Tonight's sky · Friday, October 30, 2026
Tonight over Nanjing
Darkness
- Sunset
- 5:17 PM
- Dark enough for satellites
- 5:42 PM
- Fully dark
- 6:39 PM
- Sunrise
- 6:20 AM
- Moon
- waning gibbous, 79% lit
- Clouds this evening
- clear
Bright planets at 6:12 PM
- Venus: below the horizon, magnitude -4.2
- Jupiter: below the horizon, magnitude -2.0
- Mars: below the horizon, magnitude 0.9
- Saturn: 27° 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 Nanjing.
| Satellite | Rises | Highest at | Max height | Path |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A spent rocket stage (ARIANE 5 R/B) | 5:47 PM | 5:51 PM | 78° | N → S |
| A spent rocket stage (SL-16 R/B) | 5:49 PM | 5:54 PM | 67° | N → SE |
| A spent rocket stage (SL-16 R/B) | 5:52 PM | 5:56 PM | 76° | SW → N |
| A spent rocket stage (SL-3 R/B) | 5:52 PM | 5:55 PM | 51° | S → NE |
| A spent rocket stage (SL-16 R/B) | 5:55 PM | 5:59 PM | 70° | S → NE |
| A satellite (SAOCOM 1B) | 5:59 PM | 6:03 PM | 56° | NE → S |
| A satellite (INTERCOSMOS 24) | 6:28 PM | 6:35 PM | 85° | S → N |
| A spent rocket stage (THOR AGENA D R/B) | 6:40 PM | 6:44 PM | 55° | SE → N |
| A satellite (ISIS 1) | 6:57 PM | 7:11 PM | 52° | N → SW |
| A satellite (INTERCOSMOS 25) | 7:39 PM | 7:53 PM | 70° | N → S |
Satellite trains
- 5:57 PM: a line of 14 satellites, up to 83° high, coming from the southwest
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.