Night sky tonight in Rome

The night of Monday 19 October to Tuesday 20 October 2026

At a glance

Sunset 18:19, properly dark from 19:24, getting light from 06:25, sunrise 07:31 (local time).

The Moon is 62 per cent lit and waxing, setting at 00:54. It is in the zodiac sign of Aquarius.

The planets

Jupiter: visible from 03:04 to 06:24, at its highest at 06:24 in the south-east, 47° up, near Regulus. Magnitude −1.8.
Saturn: visible from 19:24 to 05:04, at its highest at 23:54 in the south, 50° up. Magnitude 0.4.
Mars: visible from 02:14 to 06:24, at its highest at 06:24 in the south-east, 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, 05:45 to 05:48, from the north to the north-east, up to 39°
ISS: Thursday 22 October, 05:47 to 05:49, from the north to the north-east, up to 22°

Visible passes tonight and on the next two nights, when the station is lit by the Sun and the sky is 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 Rome