Night sky tonight in Athens
The night of Sunday 18 October to Monday 19 October 2026
At a glance
Sunset 18:40, properly dark from 19:42, getting light from 06:38, sunrise 07:40 (local time).
The Moon is 53 per cent lit and waxing, setting at 00:15. It is in the zodiac sign of Capricorn.
The planets
- Jupiter: visible from 03:22 to 06:32, highest at 06:32 in the east, 47° up, near Regulus. Magnitude −1.8.
- Saturn: visible from 19:42 to 05:22, highest at 00:22 in the south, 54° up. Magnitude 0.4.
- Mars: visible from 02:32 to 06:32, highest at 06:32 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: Monday 19 October, 05:57 to 05:59, from the north to the northeast, up to 31°
- ISS: Wednesday 21 October, 06:00 to 06:01, from the north to the north, up to 16°
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.