Night sky tonight in Dublin

The night of Monday 19 October to Tuesday 20 October 2026

At a glance

Sunset 18:16, properly dark from 19:37, getting light from 06:43, sunrise 08:04 (local time).

The Moon is 63 per cent lit and waxing, rising at 16:16, setting at 00:31. It is in the zodiac sign of Aquarius.

The planets

Jupiter: visible from 03:07 to 06:37, highest at 06:37 in the southeast, 41° up, near Regulus. Magnitude −1.8.
Saturn: visible from 19:37 to 05:07, highest at 00:17 in the south, 38° up. Magnitude 0.4.
Mars: visible from 02:07 to 06:37, highest at 06:37 in the southeast, 49° up. Magnitude 1.0.

Not visible: Mercury, Venus (too close to the Sun or not up in the dark).

ISS and space stations

ISS: Tuesday 20 October, 06:18 to 06:23, from the southwest to the east, up to 35°
ISS: Wednesday 21 October, 05:33 to 05:35, from the southeast to the east, up to 27°
ISS: Thursday 22 October, 06:20 to 06:25, from the southwest to the east, up to 53°

Visible passes this night and the next two: the station lit by the Sun, the sky dark. It glides across the sky as a bright steady point, without blinking.

High in the sky at 10 pm

This week in the sky

Comet 161P/Hartley-IRAS at its brightest: About magnitude 9.7: at the limit of binoculars, better in a telescope
Orionids: peak: Up to 20 meteors an hour under an ideally dark sky. The Moon is 78 per cent lit then and drowns the fainter ones.

All sky events

Live star map for Dublin