Night sky tonight in Lagos

The night of Monday 19 October to Tuesday 20 October 2026

At a glance

Sunset 18:27, properly dark from 19:16, getting light from 05:45, sunrise 06:34 (local time).

The Moon is 63 per cent lit and waxing, setting at 01:38. It is in the zodiac sign of Aquarius.

The planets

Jupiter: visible from 03:16 to 05:36, highest at 05:36 in the east, 46° up, near Regulus. Magnitude −1.8.
Saturn: visible from 19:16 to 04:46, highest at 23:36 in the south, 85° up. Magnitude 0.4.
Mars: visible from 02:36 to 05:36, highest at 05:36 in the northeast, 55° up. Magnitude 1.0.

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

ISS and space stations

Hubble: Tuesday 20 October, 04:55 to 04:57, from the northeast to the northeast, up to 17°
Hubble: Tuesday 20 October, 19:56 to 19:58, from the west to the west, up to 55°
Tiangong: Wednesday 21 October, 04:53 to 04:54, from the southeast to the southeast, up to 21°
Hubble: Wednesday 21 October, 19:22 to 19:28, from the west to the northeast, up to 67°
Hubble: Thursday 22 October, 05:27 to 05:32, from the west to the southeast, up to 81°

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 Lagos