Tonight's Sky from Berlin, Germany
52.52°N, 13.41°E · Europe/Berlin · Wed, Jun 17 · 00:50 UTC
🌙 Clear sky but no bright planets up right now
Moon: Waxing Crescent (6% lit). Good for faint stars.
⏳Wait 15-30 minutes — sky nearly dark enough for good viewing.
Berlin, Germany · 2 planets in the sky · 0 visible to the naked eye
2 planets in the sky, but none visible to the naked eye
- Saturn — Saturn is at the edge of naked-eye detection.
- Neptune — Neptune is too faint for the naked eye (mag 7.8).
5 planets below the horizon — Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Uranus
- Mercury — Below horizon
- Venus — Below horizon
- Mars — Below horizon
- Jupiter — Below horizon
- Uranus — Below horizon
Sky map
Zenith at center · Horizon at edgeObserving conditions
Cloud cover
38%
Partly cloudy
Moon
Waxing Crescent
6% lit — No impact — moon is below the horizon
Light pollution
City
Bortle 8 — measured
Light pollution
Bortle scale · catalogued
8/9
City
1 · Pristine5 · Suburban9 · Inner city
City sky. Only a few dozen stars visible. Familiar constellation shapes missing dimmer stars. Moon and planets only.
Naked-eye limit
mag 4.5
Next eclipse
Solar · total
56
days away
A total solar eclipse on Wednesday, 12 August 2026.
Visible: Greenland, Iceland, Spain, North Africa. Confirm viewability from Berlin on the detail page.
- Duration
- 2m 18s
- Magnitude
- 1.04
Targets tonight
Ranked by altitude × aperture reach
What this means
It is still daylight — check back after sunset.
Some cloud cover is present but viewing is still workable.
The Moon is below the horizon and will not interfere.
Sun
Nautical twilight
Altitude
−10.8°
Nautical twilight — stars emerging
Azimuth
24° NNE
Next sunrise
Wed, Jun 17 · 02:42 UTC
Next sunset
Wed, Jun 17 · 19:32 UTC
Moon
Below horizon
Phase
Waxing Crescent
5.5% illuminated
Altitude
−13.8°
Next moonrise
Wed, Jun 17 · 04:56 UTC
ISS passes (next 48 h)
5 passes
- Wed, Jun 17 · 04:47 UTCpeak 25°in 4 hoursrises SSW → sets E5m 42s
- Wed, Jun 17 · 06:23 UTCpeak 66°in 6 hoursrises WSW → sets E6m 43s
- Wed, Jun 17 · 08:00 UTCpeak 72°in 7 hoursrises W → sets ESE6m 44s
- Wed, Jun 17 · 09:37 UTCpeak 30°in 9 hoursrises W → sets SE6m 0s
- Thu, Jun 18 · 04:00 UTCpeak 19°tomorrowrises S → sets E4m 53s
Advanced — raw altitude, azimuth, magnitude for all planets
Planets
0 currently observable
- MercuryBelow horizon
- VenusBelow horizon
- MarsBelow horizon
- JupiterBelow horizon
- Saturnmag 0.87.5°Barely visible
- UranusBelow horizon
- Neptunemag 7.810.6°Needs telescope