Night sky tonight in Cairo
The night of Sunday 18 October to Monday 19 October 2026
At a glance
Sunset 18:18, properly dark from 19:14, getting light from 06:06, sunrise 07:02 (local time).
The Moon is 52 per cent lit and waxing, setting at 00:06. It is in the zodiac sign of Capricorn.
The planets
- Jupiter: visible from 03:04 to 06:04, highest at 06:04 in the east, 50° up, near Regulus. Magnitude −1.8.
- Saturn: visible from 19:14 to 04:54, highest at 23:44 in the south, 61° up. Magnitude 0.4.
- Mars: visible from 02:14 to 06:04, highest at 06:04 in the east, 61° up. Magnitude 1.0.
Not visible: Mercury, Venus (too close to the Sun or not up in the dark).
ISS and space stations
- Tiangong: Tuesday 20 October, 19:30 to 19:33, from the southwest to the southeast, up to 28°
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.