Night sky tonight in Lagos
The night of Sunday 18 October to Monday 19 October 2026
At a glance
Sunset 18:28, properly dark from 19:17, getting light from 05:45, sunrise 06:34 (local time).
The Moon is 53 per cent lit and waxing, setting at 00:49. It is in the zodiac sign of Capricorn.
The planets
- Jupiter: visible from 03:17 to 05:37, highest at 05:37 in the east, 45° up, near Regulus. Magnitude −1.8.
- Saturn: visible from 19:17 to 04:57, highest at 23:37 in the south, 85° up. Magnitude 0.4.
- Mars: visible from 02:37 to 05:37, highest at 05:37 in the northeast, 54° up. Magnitude 1.0.
Not visible: Mercury, Venus (too close to the Sun or not up in the dark).
ISS and space stations
- Tiangong: Sunday 18 October, 19:20 to 19:25, from the west to the north, up to 31°
- Hubble: Sunday 18 October, 19:23 to 19:26, from the south to the southeast, up to 19°
- Tiangong: Monday 19 October, 05:13 to 05:16, from the northeast to the east, up to 34°
- Hubble: Monday 19 October, 05:26 to 05:30, from the north to the northeast, up to 18°
- Hubble: Tuesday 20 October, 04:55 to 04:57, from the northeast to the northeast, up to 17°
- Hubble: Tuesday 20 October, 19:56 to 19:59, from the west to the west, up to 57°
- Tiangong: Wednesday 21 October, 04:53 to 04:54, from the southeast to the southeast, up to 21°
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.