Tonight's sky · Friday, October 30, 2026
Tonight over Rājkot
Darkness
- Sunset
- 6:10 PM
- Dark enough for satellites
- 6:33 PM
- Fully dark
- 7:26 PM
- Sunrise
- 6:50 AM
- Moon
- waning gibbous, 78% lit
- Clouds this evening
- partly cloudy
Bright planets at 7:03 PM
- Venus: below the horizon, magnitude -4.2
- Jupiter: below the horizon, magnitude -2.0
- Mars: below the horizon, magnitude 0.9
- Saturn: 31° 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 Rājkot.
| Satellite | Rises | Highest at | Max height | Path |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A spent rocket stage (ARIANE 5 R/B) | 6:34 PM | 6:37 PM | 70° | N → S |
| A satellite (ISIS 1) | 6:37 PM | 6:54 PM | 85° | N → S |
| A spent rocket stage (SL-14 R/B) | 6:44 PM | 6:48 PM | 49° | N → S |
| A spent rocket stage (SL-16 R/B) | 6:45 PM | 6:49 PM | 63° | N → SE |
| A spent rocket stage (SL-16 R/B) | 6:45 PM | 6:50 PM | 62° | SW → N |
| A satellite (SAOCOM 1B) | 6:46 PM | 6:49 PM | 79° | N → S |
| A spent rocket stage (SL-12 R/B) | 7:01 PM | 7:06 PM | 51° | S → NE |
| A spent rocket stage (THOR AGENA D R/B) | 7:28 PM | 7:32 PM | 50° | SE → N |
| A spent rocket stage (SL-16 R/B) | 7:53 PM | 7:56 PM | 49° | S → NW |
| A satellite (INTERCOSMOS 25) | 9:11 PM | 9:25 PM | 79° | N → S |
Launches you might see
- IRNSS-1L (NVS-03) (GSLV Mk. II): 11:51 PM, 1379 km to the southeast. Below the horizon.
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.