Night sky tonight in Fuerteventura (Puerto del Rosario)

The night of Sunday 18 October to Monday 19 October 2026

At a glance

Sunset 19:20, properly dark from 20:15, getting light from 07:06, sunrise 08:01 (local time).

The Moon is 54 per cent lit and waxing, setting at 01:17. It is in the zodiac sign of Capricorn.

The sky of the Canary Islands

The Canary Islands have some of the darkest skies in Europe. On La Palma and Tenerife a law of its own, the Ley del Cielo, has protected the night sky from light since 1988; on the Roque de los Muchachos stands the Gran Telescopio Canarias, one of the largest telescopes in the world. At about 28 degrees north the islands see Canopus rise, the second brightest star of the sky, which never rises for most of Europe, and much more of the southern sky.

The planets

Jupiter: visible from 04:05 to 07:05, highest at 07:05 in the east, 51° up, near Regulus. Magnitude −1.8.
Saturn: visible from 20:15 to 05:55, highest at 00:45 in the south, 63° up. Magnitude 0.4.
Mars: visible from 03:15 to 07:05, highest at 07:05 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, 20:35 to 20:37, from the southwest to the south, up to 44°

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.

All sky events

Live star map for Fuerteventura (Puerto del Rosario)