Night sky tonight in Mumbai
The night of Sunday 18 October to Monday 19 October 2026
At a glance
Sunset 18:11, properly dark from 19:02, getting light from 05:44, sunrise 06:36 (local time).
The Moon is 51 per cent lit and waxing, setting at 00:08. It is in the zodiac sign of Capricorn.
The planets
- Jupiter: visible from 02:52 to 05:42, highest at 05:42 in the east, 50° up, near Regulus. Magnitude −1.8.
- Saturn: visible from 19:02 to 04:42, highest at 23:32 in the south, 72° up. Magnitude 0.4.
- Mars: visible from 02:12 to 05:42, highest at 05:42 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: Sunday 18 October, 19:16 to 19:18, from the south to the southeast, up to 32°
- Tiangong: Monday 19 October, 05:06 to 05:08, from the south to the southeast, up to 26°
- Hubble: Monday 19 October, 05:14 to 05:18, from the west to the southeast, up to 78°
- Tiangong: Monday 19 October, 19:53 to 19:54, from the west to the west, up to 26°
- Hubble: Tuesday 20 October, 04:43 to 04:45, from the southeast to the southeast, up to 35°
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.