Tonight's Sky from Paris, France
48.85°N, 2.35°E · Europe/Paris · Wed, Jun 17 · 00:56 UTC
🌙 Clear sky but no bright planets up right now
Moon: Waxing Crescent (6% lit). Good for faint stars.
⏳Nearly full darkness — conditions improving by the minute.
Paris, France · 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 bright, but sky conditions prevent observation.
- 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
36%
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 Paris 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
Astronomical twilight
Altitude
−16.3°
Astronomical twilight — nearly dark
Azimuth
16° NNE
Next sunrise
Wed, Jun 17 · 03:46 UTC
Next sunset
Wed, Jun 17 · 19:56 UTC
Moon
Below horizon
Phase
Waxing Crescent
5.5% illuminated
Altitude
−16.5°
Next moonrise
Wed, Jun 17 · 06:04 UTC
ISS passes (next 48 h)
5 passes
- Wed, Jun 17 · 04:45 UTCpeak 22°in 4 hoursrises SSW → sets E5m 19s
- Wed, Jun 17 · 06:21 UTCpeak 90°in 5 hoursrises WSW → sets ENE6m 47s
- Wed, Jun 17 · 07:58 UTCpeak 50°in 7 hoursrises WNW → sets ENE6m 37s
- Wed, Jun 17 · 09:35 UTCpeak 83°in 9 hoursrises WNW → sets ESE6m 45s
- Wed, Jun 17 · 11:12 UTCpeak 24°in 10 hoursrises W → sets SSE5m 35s
Advanced — raw altitude, azimuth, magnitude for all planets
Planets
0 currently observable
- MercuryBelow horizon
- VenusBelow horizon
- MarsBelow horizon
- JupiterBelow horizon
- Saturnmag 0.81.5°Not visible
- UranusBelow horizon
- Neptunemag 7.85.2°Needs telescope