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Tonight's Sky from Tokyo, Japan

35.69°N, 139.69°E · Asia/Tokyo · Tue, Apr 28 · 19:32 UTC

🌅 Twilight — sky is darkening

Planets will appear soon as the sky gets darker.

⏳Wait 30-60 minutes — planets will become visible as the sky darkens.

Tokyo, Japan · 4 planets in the sky · 0 visible to the naked eye

4 planets in the sky, but none visible to the naked eye
  • Mercury — Mercury is bright but the sky hasn't darkened enough yet.
  • Mars — Sky still too bright during twilight for Mars.
  • Saturn — Sky still too bright during twilight for Saturn.
  • Neptune — Sky still too bright during twilight for Neptune.
3 planets below the horizon — Venus, Jupiter, Uranus
  • Venus — Below horizon
  • Jupiter — Below horizon
  • Uranus — Below horizon

Sky map

Zenith at center · Horizon at edge
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Observing conditions

Cloud cover
58%
Mostly cloudy
Moon
Waxing Gibbous
92% 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
106
days away

A total solar eclipse on Wednesday, 12 August 2026.

Visible: Greenland, Iceland, Spain, North Africa. Confirm viewability from Tokyo 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.

Heavy cloud cover will block most of the sky tonight.

The Moon is below the horizon and will not interfere.

Sun

Civil twilight
Altitude
−4.6°
Civil twilight — sky still bright
Azimuth
69° ENE
Next sunrise
Tue, Apr 28 · 19:52 UTC
Next sunset
Wed, Apr 29 · 09:25 UTC

Moon

Below horizon
Phase
Waxing Gibbous
91.9% illuminated
Altitude
−15.9°
Next moonrise
Wed, Apr 29 · 07:11 UTC

ISS passes (next 48 h)

5 passes
  • Tue, Apr 28 · 20:45 UTC
    peak 16°
    in 1 hourrises NNW → sets ENE4m 26s
  • Tue, Apr 28 · 22:21 UTC
    peak 64°
    in 3 hoursrises NW → sets SE6m 42s
  • Wed, Apr 29 · 13:26 UTC
    peak 17°
    in 18 hoursrises S → sets E4m 35s
  • Wed, Apr 29 · 15:02 UTC
    peak 38°
    in 20 hoursrises WSW → sets NNE6m 18s
  • Wed, Apr 29 · 19:58 UTC
    peak 12°
    tomorrowrises N → sets NE2m 34s

Active meteor showers

1 active

  • Eta Aquariids

    ~50/hr

    Halley's Comet debris; favors the Southern Hemisphere.

    Peak: 05-06

Advanced — raw altitude, azimuth, magnitude for all planets

Planets

0 currently observable
  • Mercurymag -0.6
    2.5°Not yet visible
  • Venus
    Below horizon
  • Marsmag 1.2
    7.5°Not visible
  • Jupiter
    Below horizon
  • Saturnmag 0.9
    9.4°Not visible
  • Uranus
    Below horizon
  • Neptunemag 7.8
    13°Not visible
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Tonight's Sky from Tokyo, Japan