Night sky tonight in Hong Kong
The night of Sunday 18 October to Monday 19 October 2026
At a glance
Sunset 17:53, properly dark from 18:45, getting light from 05:31, sunrise 06:23 (local time).
The Moon is 50 per cent lit and waxing, setting at 23:39. It is in the zodiac sign of Capricorn.
The planets
- Jupiter: visible from 02:35 to 05:25, highest at 05:25 in the east, 49° up, near Regulus. Magnitude −1.8.
- Saturn: visible from 18:45 to 04:25, highest at 23:15 in the south, 69° up. Magnitude 0.4.
- Mars: visible from 01:55 to 05:25, highest at 05:25 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, 04:36 to 04:38, from the southeast to the southeast, up to 44°
- Tiangong: Monday 19 October, 19:17 to 19:20, from the southwest to the southwest, up to 48°
- Hubble: Wednesday 21 October, 05:08 to 05:10, from the southwest to the south, 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.