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☁️ Cloudy tonight — 2 planets in sky but blocked

Cloud cover: 73%. Stargazing not recommended tonight.

Nearly full darkness — conditions improving by the minute.

27/ 100 tonight

Overcast · No moon interference · City sky

Next ISS pass✓ Visible
6:08 AM
Visible 5 min · peaks at 23°
Meteor shower
No major events
Quiet sky tonight
Moon
New Moon · 2%
Below horizon
Sunset
8:28 PM
Astronomical twilight

Tonight's highlights

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See your city's sky tonight

Pick any city to view its planets, moon, weather, and ISS passes.

9 featured cities

Explore the sky from any city

See what's visible tonight — planets, the Moon, ISS passes, and meteor showers, all adjusted for local weather.

Live · NOAA SWPC

Know what the sun is doing — right now

Track geomagnetic storms, solar flares, and the solar wind in real time. Plain-language impact for aurora chasers, ham radio operators, pilots, and satellite watchers — no jargon required.

  • Live Kp index + 3-day storm forecast
  • Solar flare classification (A → X) with 6-hour timeline
  • Radio blackout alerts on the R-scale
  • What each event means for your activities
Solar
B

B5.3

Geo
2.7

Quiet

Wind
542

km/s

View 6-hour X-ray flux timeline + 72-hour Kp forecast
Explore trends
Interplanetary Earth
NASA · Picture of the Day

Interplanetary Earth

In an interplanetary first, on July 19, 2013 Earth was photographed on the same day from two other worlds of the Solar System, innermost planet Mercury and ringed gas giant Saturn. Pictured on the left, Earth is the pale blue dot just below the rings of Saturn, as captured by the robotic Cassini spacecraft then orbiting the outermost gas giant. On that same day people across planet Earth snapped many of their own pictures of Saturn. On the right, the Earth-Moon system is seen against the dark background of space as captured by the sunward MESSENGER spacecraft, then in Mercury orbit. MESSENGER took its image as part of a search for small natural satellites of Mercury, moons that would be expected to be quite dim. In the MESSENGER image, the brighter Earth and Moon are both overexposed and shine brightly with reflected sunlight. Destined not to return to their home world, both Cassini and MESSENGER have since retired from their missions of Solar System exploration.

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Closest approach right now

(2026 HJ)

0.3 LDInside lunar orbit
Risk
Notable
Size
2 – 5 m
Velocity
6.5 km/s
NASA NeoWsView details

Six ways to explore space

Every feature is live, free, and requires no account.

Getting started

How it works

From picking a city to tracking asteroids — three steps, zero sign-up.

01

Pick a city

Search any of 33,000 cities worldwide or use your current location. Each city gets a personalised sky report.

02

See the live sky

Explore an interactive panoramic view with real-time planet positions, the Moon, ISS passes, and meteor showers — adjusted for local weather.

03

Track asteroids & aurora

Monitor near-Earth objects with risk classification, and check cloud-adjusted aurora forecasts for the world's best viewing cities.

Guides & deep dives

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Stargazing guides, space news, and how-tos for upcoming events.

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Asteroids tracked
15
Aurora cities
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FAQ

Answers to common questions

Everything you need to know about the data, the forecasts, and what SkyTracko tracks for you every night.

SkyTracko shows you which planets, the Moon, the ISS, and meteor showers are visible from your city right now — cloud cover and moon phase included. Pick a city from the hero above or open the sky map to see a per-city report.

We combine NOAA's Kp index forecast with real-time cloud cover from Open-Meteo to produce a per-hour, cloud-adjusted visibility probability for each city. The forecast refreshes every 15 minutes and covers the next 72 hours.

The asteroid tracker lists every near-Earth object approaching in the next 60 days, sourced from NASA NeoWs. You can sort by closest, soonest, largest, or highest risk — and see the distance in lunar distances plus plain-language meaning ("Inside lunar orbit", "Well beyond lunar distance", etc.).

Asteroid data refreshes every minute in the browser and is synced from NASA NeoWs every six hours. Aurora and sky conditions refresh every 15 minutes. Each page shows the most recent sync time so you always know how fresh the reading is.

Yes — every feature on SkyTracko is free and requires no account. Optional sign-in is planned to let you save your favourite city and get notified about notable asteroid approaches and aurora events.

Can't find what you're looking for? Every feature page has its own detailed explainer and methodology notes.