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Tonight over Palo Alto

37.43° N · 122.11° W · updated  
Full
98% full
ISS00:08:13appears in
sunrise00:36:306:36 AM
darkness begins15:14:439:14 PM
Draconids40 daysOct 8 · moon 4%
full moon28d 3h 49mSep 26
new moon12d 14h 26mSep 10
equinox24d 11h 5mSep 22
solstice114 daysDec 21
lunar eclipse353 dayspenumbral · Aug 17 2027

Sun & Moon · today

Sunrise
6:36 AM
tomorrow 6:37 AM
Sunset
7:41 PM
tomorrow 7:39 PM
Daylight
13 h 4 m
136 s shorter than yesterday
Dark sky
9:13 PM
astronomical twilight ends
Moonrise
8:24 PM
transit 1:59 AM
Moonset
8:08 AM
later today

The Geocentric · live

plan view — compass bearing, east to the right · rings step ×10 in distance · solid = above the horizon, dashed = below · trails show the last hour of motion · comets are diamonds, tails pointing away from the sun · hover or tap any mark for its altitude and distance

moon 239,549 miles 0.002577 aualt 23.1°
sun 93,872,063 miles 1.009857 aubelow horizon
mercury 127,397,163 miles 1.370513 aubelow horizon
venus 53,298,793 miles 0.573378 aubelow horizon
mars 173,203,406 miles 1.863288 aualt 43.4°
jupiter 577,330,000 miles 6.210801 aualt 14.3°
saturn 801,744,475 miles 8.625007 aualt 41.8°
uranus 1,804,320,956 miles 19.410524 aualt 70.1°
neptune 2,693,830,772 miles 28.979693 aualt 33.2°
pluto 3,228,882,311 miles 34.735671 aubelow horizon
Halley 3,333,590,211 miles 35.862097 aualt 14.5°
Hale-Bopp 4,722,785,535 miles 50.806783 aubelow horizon
proxima 24,825,555,816,778 miles 267068.4 aubelow horizon

Today · light & dark

Twilight bands (USNO geometric definitions), sun and moon rise/set ticks, and the moving line is now.

Calculated with Skyfield, JPL's DE421 ephemeris and the Hipparcos star catalog (Credit: ESA).
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