Paranal Observatory (ESO)

Cerro Paranal, Atacama Desert, Chile

Tonight's best

First quarter, 60% lit.

Dark from 23:32 to 10:02 UTC.

Highest passes, ranked by peak altitude:

METEOR-M2 4

19:41 UTC, peak 88.1 degrees

SL-8 R/B

17:38 UTC, peak 85.7 degrees

ISS (ZARYA)

19:02 UTC, peak 83.0 degrees

Sky chart · Star compass · Pass simulation

Next possible eclipse

Possible lunar eclipse

Fri 22 Jan 2027, 12:00 UTC

Not visible from here: below the horizon at that time.

Approximate, within about an hour. Check a published eclipse table before planning.

Planets

The sky is still too bright to see planets well at this time.

Venus

Above the horizon, 83.1 degrees up, to the NW

Mercury

Above the horizon, 77.5 degrees up, to the E

Jupiter

Above the horizon, 12.8 degrees up, to the NW

Mars

Below the horizon (2.4 degrees)

Neptune

Below the horizon (-51.2 degrees)

Saturn

Below the horizon (-57.9 degrees)

Uranus

Below the horizon (-62.4 degrees)

Calculated from NASA's DE421 planetary data. Times are UTC.

Sky conditions

Average cloud cover for the next 6 hours: 31%. Forecast by Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0).

Time (UTC)	Cloud	Visibility	Humidity	Rain
Mon 17:00	0%	70.7 km	12%	0%
Mon 18:00	9%	70.8 km	18%	0%
Mon 19:00	9%	70.9 km	23%	0%
Mon 20:00	24%	70.9 km	33%	0%
Mon 21:00	58%	66.3 km	46%	0%
Mon 22:00	84%	66.2 km	48%	0%

Pass reminders

Get a notification 2 minutes before each pass in the next 24 hours. Keep this page open, since reminders are scheduled in the browser.

Next 24 hours

Times are UTC. Each bar is a satellite above 10 degrees. The left edge is the start of the window.

Next pass at 17:02 UTC, peak 66.6 degrees.

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Satellite	Starts (UTC)	Peak
SL-16 R/B	17:02	66.6°
CZ-2C R/B	17:02	19.3°
METEOSAT-10 (MSG-3)	17:02	11.0°
ELEKTRO-L 2	17:02	26.1°
GOES 16	17:02	42.7°
GOES 17	17:02	55.3°
GOES 18	17:02	12.7°
GOES 19	17:02	60.7°
SL-16 R/B	17:04	23.8°
SZ-21 MODULE	17:07	71.6°