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What’s in my sky tonight?

Which planets, the Moon and the brightest star clusters, nebulae and galaxies are up tonight where you are, when each is best and which way to face. It works it out in your browser from the planets’ orbits and the stars’ positions; pick your city or use your location.

Privacy: this tool runs in your browser. It uses your location only if you tap “Use my location” and allow it, and never sends it anywhere.

Working out tonight’s sky for your time zone…

Tonight from four cities

Computed November 7, 2026 for the coming night; this page refreshes every hour.

New York

  • The Lagoon Nebula (M8): best about 5:46 pm, 13° up in the south-west
  • The Hercules Cluster (M13): best about 5:46 pm, 41° up in the west
  • Neptune: best about 8:54 pm, 49° up in the south
  • Saturn: best about 9:24 pm, 50° up in the south
  • The Andromeda Galaxy (M31): best about 9:26 pm, 89° up in the north-east
  • The Double Cluster: best about 11:06 pm, 73° up in the north
  • The Pleiades (M45): best about 12:36 am, 73° up in the south
  • Uranus: best about 12:54 am, 70° up in the south
  • The Orion Nebula (M42): best about 2:26 am, 44° up in the south
  • The Beehive Cluster (M44): best about 5:26 am, 69° up in the south
  • Venus: best about 6:04 am, 13° up in the south-east
  • Jupiter: best about 6:04 am, 62° up in the south
  • Mars: best about 6:04 am, 65° up in the south

Los Angeles

  • The Lagoon Nebula (M8): best about 5:50 pm, 17° up in the south-west
  • The Hercules Cluster (M13): best about 5:50 pm, 37° up in the north-west
  • Neptune: best about 8:50 pm, 55° up in the south
  • Saturn: best about 9:20 pm, 57° up in the south
  • The Andromeda Galaxy (M31): best about 9:30 pm, 83° up in the north
  • The Double Cluster: best about 11:00 pm, 67° up in the north
  • The Pleiades (M45): best about 12:30 am, 80° up in the south
  • Uranus: best about 12:50 am, 77° up in the south
  • The Orion Nebula (M42): best about 2:20 am, 51° up in the south
  • The Beehive Cluster (M44): best about 5:20 am, 76° up in the south
  • Venus: best about 5:50 am, 14° up in the south-east
  • Jupiter: best about 5:50 am, 68° up in the south-east
  • Mars: best about 5:50 am, 70° up in the south-east

London

  • The Hercules Cluster (M13): best about 5:39 pm, 45° up in the west
  • Neptune: best about 8:59 pm, 38° up in the south
  • Saturn: best about 9:29 pm, 40° up in the south
  • The Andromeda Galaxy (M31): best about 9:39 pm, 80° up in the south
  • The Double Cluster: best about 11:19 pm, 84° up in the north
  • The Pleiades (M45): best about 12:39 am, 63° up in the south
  • Uranus: best about 12:59 am, 59° up in the south
  • The Orion Nebula (M42): best about 2:29 am, 33° up in the south
  • The Beehive Cluster (M44): best about 5:29 am, 58° up in the south
  • Venus: best about 6:29 am, 10° up in the south-east
  • Jupiter: best about 6:29 am, 52° up in the south
  • Mars: best about 6:29 am, 54° up in the south

Sydney

  • The Lagoon Nebula (M8): best about 8:28 pm, 30° up in the west
  • Neptune: best about 9:56 pm, 57° up in the north
  • 47 Tucanae: best about 10:08 pm, 52° up in the south
  • Saturn: best about 10:16 pm, 55° up in the north
  • The Andromeda Galaxy (M31): best about 10:28 pm, 15° up in the north
  • The Pleiades (M45): best about 1:28 am, 32° up in the north
  • Uranus: best about 1:56 am, 35° up in the north
  • The Orion Nebula (M42): best about 3:18 am, 62° up in the north
  • The Beehive Cluster (M44): best about 4:38 am, 31° up in the north-east
  • Omega Centauri: best about 4:38 am, 19° up in the south-east
  • The Carina Nebula: best about 4:38 am, 45° up in the south-east
  • Jupiter: best about 5:16 am, 32° up in the north-east
  • Mars: best about 5:16 am, 32° up in the north-east

How to use it

Go out about half an hour after sunset, or later for the faint things, and give your eyes 15 minutes to adjust to the dark: no phone screen in between, or use a red light. Face the direction given, and look the given height up from the horizon: your fist at arm’s length covers about 10°, so 30° up is three fists.

For the objects with their own page, there’s more on what you’re seeing: the Orion Nebula, Saturn, Jupiter, the Moon, Mars, Venus, Mercury, the Andromeda Galaxy, the Pleiades, Omega Centauri, Sagittarius A*, the Ring Nebula, the Carina Nebula, the Lagoon Nebula, the Trifid Nebula. To get a feel for how far away they are, try the light-year calculator.

Questions people ask

How do I know which planet I'm looking at? Planets shine steadily while stars twinkle, and they all sit close to the line the Sun and Moon follow. Venus is the brightest, low in twilight; Jupiter is next, bright and white; Mars is orange; Saturn is a softer cream color. This tool gives each one's direction and height for your place, so you can match them.

Does this tool track my location? No. It starts from the city that matches your device's time zone. If you tap Use my location, your browser hands the coordinates to the page, which does the astronomy on your device; nothing is sent to us.

Why does an object say it's up in daylight? It's above the horizon, but only while the Sun is up, so you can't see it at night. Planets near the Sun in the sky, and stars on the far side of the Sun from us, spend months like this.

How accurate are the times? Positions come from Astronomy Engine, which matches NASA JPL's within about an arcminute. Times are rounded to ten minutes for when things are up, and hills, buildings and haze near the horizon will hide anything lower than about 10°.

Computed with Astronomy Engine (Don Cross, MIT license). Deep-sky positions are the ones Everdust’s Night Sky uses.