Night sky tonight in New York City

The night of Monday 19 October to Tuesday 20 October 2026

At a glance

Sunset 18:06, properly dark from 19:10, getting light from 06:11, sunrise 07:15 (local time).

The Moon is 65 per cent lit and waxing, setting at 00:59. It is in the zodiac sign of Aquarius.

The planets

Jupiter: visible from 02:50 to 06:10, highest at 06:10 in the southeast, 48° up, near Regulus. Magnitude −1.8.
Saturn: visible from 19:10 to 04:50, highest at 23:40 in the south, 51° up. Magnitude 0.4.
Mars: visible from 02:00 to 06:10, highest at 06:10 in the southeast, 57° 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, 05:57 to 06:00, from the northwest to the northeast, up to 22°
ISS: Wednesday 21 October, 05:12 to 05:13, from the northeast to the northeast, up to 21°
ISS: Thursday 22 October, 05:59 to 06:02, from the northwest to the northeast, up to 15°

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 New York City