Skywatching

What to look for tonight from your own street: passes, planets, eclipses, and how to read the sky.

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What is in the sky tonight depends on this: North America at night seen from space, its cities picked out in light

What Is in the Sky Tonight? Relearning to Look Up

What is in the sky tonight, seen from an ordinary city balcony, is a short list. Almost nobody is taught it any more. It takes one evening to learn.

20 Oct 202611 min read

The dusk sky over a drawn city skyline, with the constellation Aquarius marked and the planet Saturn labelled low in the east-south-east

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ISS pass tonight? Ask the sky over your own street

Most sky apps assume you know the constellations. The Tonight view in Space Radar assumes you know which way is south. What it works out for one street on one evening, and what it admits it cannot know.

19 Oct 20268 min read

The solar eclipse 2027 seen from space: the Moon’s dark shadow lying over Egypt and the Red Sea at the moment of greatest eclipse, with Africa, Europe and Arabia in daylight

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Solar Eclipse 2027: Six Minutes of Night at Noon

The solar eclipse of 2027 will put Luxor in the dark for more than six minutes, the longest totality anyone will stand under until 2114. Here is the day, minute by minute, and where the shadow does and does not reach.

27 Sep 202611 min read