Tonight's sky · Thursday, October 29, 2026
Tonight over Perth
Darkness
- Sunset
- 6:38 PM
- Dark enough for satellites
- 7:04 PM
- Fully dark
- 8:06 PM
- Sunrise
- 5:21 AM
- Moon
- waning gibbous, 90% lit
- Clouds this evening
- clear
Bright planets at 7:34 PM
- Venus — below the horizon, magnitude -4.2
- Jupiter — below the horizon, magnitude -2.0
- Mars — below the horizon, magnitude 0.9
- Saturn — 38° up in the NE, magnitude 0.4
The "bright star that does not move" is usually Venus or Jupiter. The sky turns, so check the direction near your sighting time on the live page.
Satellite passes tonight
No bright visible passes in the next 12 hours.
Launches in view
No launches within 1,500 km in the next 24 hours.
Aurora & meteors
Aurora: quiet (Kp 2.33); odds from here: unlikely.
Meteor showers: Orionids, Taurids.