Tonight's sky · Thursday, October 29, 2026
Tonight over San Mateo
Darkness
- Sunset
- 6:14 PM
- Dark enough for satellites
- 6:40 PM
- Fully dark
- 7:42 PM
- Sunrise
- 7:32 AM
- Moon
- waning gibbous, 79% lit
- Clouds this evening
- mostly cloudy
Bright planets at 7:10 PM
- Venus: below the horizon, magnitude -4.2
- Jupiter: below the horizon, magnitude -2.0
- Mars: below the horizon, magnitude 0.9
- Saturn: 24° 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 San Mateo. It usually takes under a minute, and this page will reload itself when they're ready.
Launches you might see
- Starlink Group 15-18 (Falcon 9): 8:48 PM, 360 km to the southeast. Low on the horizon: look southeast, up to 10°.
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.