Oct62026 · UTC
October Camelopardalids Meteor Shower
Look for streaks of light across a dark sky. Check your local timing and expected activity.
TONIGHT & WHAT’S NEXT
What’s in your sky tonight?
Find the Moon, bright planets, and a good time to step outside.
YOUR PLACE. YOUR VIEW.
Tonight, at a glance
Approximate area
Choose a place to see local times, directions and conditions.
A FEW MINUTES OUTSIDE
A time. A direction. Something to see.
Your location tells us what is above your horizon and when to look. Clouds help us choose a useful window.
Location & data
A city you choose is remembered for this tab. Your IP address is used by IPinfo to find an approximate area, which is kept in this tab for 15 minutes. It may be wrong with a VPN. Browser location needs permission. The page URL includes the selected area, rounded to two decimal places, so you can copy it to share this view. Exact browser coordinates are not saved. Maps load directly from OpenStreetMap and NOAA, which receive the map area being viewed. City names: GeoNames, CC BY 4.0.
COMING UP SOON
Put these on your radar.
The next 30 days. Open an event to check the view from your area.
Oct92026 · UTC
Draconids Meteor Shower
Look for streaks of light across a dark sky. Check your local timing and expected activity.
Oct122026 · UTC
Mercury at Greatest Eastern Elongation
See whether these planets are above your horizon after dark.
Oct182026 · UTC
Epsilon Geminids Meteor Shower
Look for streaks of light across a dark sky. Check your local timing and expected activity.
Oct212026 · UTC
Orionids Meteor Shower
Look for streaks of light across a dark sky. Check your local timing and expected activity.
Oct242026 · UTC
Leonis Minorids Meteor Shower
Look for streaks of light across a dark sky. Check your local timing and expected activity.
Catalog refreshed . Dates and predictions come from the catalog used by Forecast Bar, with a source on every event.
Calendar day groupings use UTC. Event times adapt to your device’s time zone when JavaScript is available. Exact local visibility and weather can differ from the global catalog timing.
Curious about what you’re seeing?Explore the Solar System in 3D
A little trip through space
There’s a whole world
on the other side of night.
Turn Earth in your hands. Follow the Moon’s changing light. Get close enough to see Saturn’s rings.
FOLLOW YOUR CURIOSITY
Explore in 3D when you’re ready. Nothing moves until you choose.
RELATIVE DISTANCES Planet dots enlarged
Our home
Drag to turn the view. Pinch to get closer.
Explore more Choose a date, visit another planet, or adjust your view
Positions are sampled each day at noon UTC.
See the position data
Heliocentric mean ecliptic J2000 coordinates in astronomical units. One AU is approximately 149.6 million km. Jupiter through Neptune use planetary-system barycentres. These are geometric positions, without light-time correction.
| Planet | Sun distance (AU) | X (AU) | Y (AU) | Z (AU) |
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The 3D view is optional. Everything else on this page works without it.
How this works & image credits
Real positions, an illustrated view. Planet positions come from NASA/JPL’s DE421 ephemeris, sampled each day at noon UTC from 2024–2049. Paths trace the selected year; outer planets show part of an orbit. Planet markers are enlarged. The optional compressed view brings planets closer together while keeping their directions from the Sun; it changes angles seen from Earth.
The Moon’s light follows the geometry. The illuminated fraction uses the actual Sun–Moon–Earth angle, viewed from Earth’s center. The scene does not predict local visibility, eclipse shadows, or surface orientation. About the JPL source ↗
Planet textures: Solar System Scope / NASA-derived maps, CC BY 4.0. Jupiter: NASA Goddard / STScI, Hubble 2015. Moon: NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio / LRO. The Earth starter picture is AI-generated illustrative artwork; it is replaced by the credited maps when 3D starts. Runtime surfaces, city lights and clouds are historical illustrations, with some filled terrain and adjusted colors. They do not show live weather or date-accurate rotation. The Moon’s near side faces Earth; libration and pole tilt are not modeled. Sun glow and decorative stars are artistic, not a sky chart. Why the Moon changes shape · About Saturn’s rings.
Take the sky with you
From a date on a calendar
to a night worth remembering.
Open the astronomy calendar in Forecast Bar to explore events alongside your local weather and astronomy alert settings.
