Tonight's Sky from Cairo, Egypt
30.06°N, 31.25°E · Africa/Cairo · Tue, Sep 15 · 18:45 UTC
🌟 Good sky tonight — 1 planet observable
Best right now: Saturn. Look east — low in the sky. (clear sky, no moon interference)
Tonight's sky quality48/100
Good — worth going outside
⏱Best viewing: now → next 10-11 hours (before Saturn sets)
Cairo, Egypt · 2 planets in the sky · 1 visible to the naked eye
Best object right now
Saturn
Saturn is bright — may need some patience.
- Where to look
- Look east
- When
- Visible now
- Visibility score
- 43/100
1 planet in the sky, but not visible to the naked eye
- Neptune — Neptune is too faint for the naked eye (mag 7.7).
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
0%
Clear
Moon
Waxing Crescent
22% lit — No impact — moon is below the horizon
Light pollution
Inner city
Bortle 9 — measured
Light pollution
Bortle scale · catalogued
9/9
Inner city
1 · Pristine5 · Suburban9 · Inner city
Inner-city sky. Only Moon, planets, and the very brightest stars. No stellar limiting magnitude worth reporting.
Naked-eye limit
mag 4.0
Next eclipse
Solar · total
321
days away
A total solar eclipse on Monday, 2 August 2027.
Visible: Spain, North Africa, Middle East, India. Confirm viewability from Cairo on the detail page.
- Duration
- 6m 24s
- Magnitude
- 1.08
Targets tonight
Ranked by altitude × aperture reach
What this means
Conditions are good to head outside now — Saturn is the standout target.
Skies are almost fully clear.
The Moon is below the horizon and will not interfere.
Sun
Below horizon
Altitude
−35.1°
Full night — darkest sky
Azimuth
298° WNW
Next sunrise
Wed, Sep 16 · 03:39 UTC
Next sunset
Wed, Sep 16 · 15:59 UTC
Moon
Below horizon
Phase
Waxing Crescent
22% illuminated
Altitude
−5.9°
Next moonrise
Wed, Sep 16 · 08:44 UTC
ISS passes (next 48 h)
5 passes
- Tue, Sep 15 · 21:45 UTCpeak 28°in 3 hoursrises NNW → sets ESE5m 51s
- Tue, Sep 15 · 23:23 UTCpeak 18°in 5 hoursrises W → sets S4m 39s
- Wed, Sep 16 · 12:49 UTCpeak 15°in 18 hoursrises SSE → sets E4m 3s
- Wed, Sep 16 · 14:24 UTCpeak 32°in 20 hoursrises WSW → sets NNE6m 9s
- Wed, Sep 16 · 20:58 UTCpeak 17°tomorrowrises N → sets E4m 30s
Advanced — raw altitude, azimuth, magnitude for all planets
Planets
1 currently observable
- MercuryBelow horizon
- VenusBelow horizon
- MarsBelow horizon
- JupiterBelow horizon
- Saturnmag 0.422.5°EVisible
- UranusBelow horizon
- Neptunemag 7.728.8°Needs telescope