Night sky tonight in Dubai
The night of Sunday 18 October to Monday 19 October 2026
At a glance
Sunset 17:46, properly dark from 18:40, getting light from 05:27, sunrise 06:21 (local time).
The Moon is 52 per cent lit and waxing, setting at 23:38. It is in the zodiac sign of Capricorn.
The planets
- Jupiter: visible from 02:30 to 05:20, highest at 05:20 in the east, 49° up, near Regulus. Magnitude −1.8.
- Saturn: visible from 18:40 to 04:20, highest at 23:10 in the south, 66° up. Magnitude 0.4.
- Mars: visible from 01:40 to 05:20, highest at 05:20 in the east, 60° up. Magnitude 1.0.
Not visible: Mercury, Venus (too close to the Sun or not up in the dark).
ISS and space stations
- Hubble: Monday 19 October, 05:18 to 05:21, from the southwest to the south, up to 21°
- Hubble: Tuesday 20 October, 04:47 to 04:48, from the south to the south, up to 19°
- Tiangong: Tuesday 20 October, 18:57 to 19:00, from the southwest to the east, up to 70°
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.