Night sky tonight in Los Angeles

The night of Monday 19 October to Tuesday 20 October 2026

At a glance

Sunset 18:10, properly dark from 19:09, getting light from 06:06, sunrise 07:05 (local time).

The Moon is 66 per cent lit and waxing, setting at 01:18. It is in the zodiac sign of Aquarius.

The planets

Jupiter: visible from 02:49 to 05:59, highest at 05:59 in the east, 49° up, near Regulus. Magnitude −1.8.
Saturn: visible from 19:09 to 04:49, highest at 23:39 in the south, 57° up. Magnitude 0.4.
Mars: visible from 01:59 to 05:59, highest at 05:59 in the southeast, 59° up. Magnitude 1.0.

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

ISS and space stations

Tiangong: Wednesday 21 October, 19:19 to 19:22, from the southwest to the southeast, up to 31°

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

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 Los Angeles