Tonight's sky · Saturday, October 31, 2026
Tonight over Wigan
Darkness
- Sunset
- 4:39 PM
- Dark enough for satellites
- 5:16 PM
- Fully dark
- 6:38 PM
- Sunrise
- 7:09 AM
- Moon
- last quarter, 68% lit
- Clouds this evening
- mostly cloudy
Bright planets at 5:46 PM
- Venus: below the horizon, magnitude -4.2
- Jupiter: below the horizon, magnitude -2.0
- Mars: below the horizon, magnitude 0.9
- Saturn: 15° 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
No bright satellites cross your sky in the next 12 hours.
Launches you might see
No launches within 1,500 km in the next 24 hours. See every upcoming launch.
Aurora, meteors and reentries
Aurora: quiet (Kp 3). Odds of seeing it from here: unlikely.
Meteor showers:
- Orionids: on until Nov 7, a few an hour.
- Taurids: on until Dec 10, a few an hour, some of them bright fireballs.
Reentries: nothing coming down within sight tonight. What is coming down this week.
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