Night sky tonight in Nairobi
The night of Sunday 18 October to Monday 19 October 2026
At a glance
Sunset 18:19, properly dark from 19:08, getting light from 05:27, sunrise 06:15 (local time).
The Moon is 52 per cent lit and waxing, setting at 00:45. It is in the zodiac sign of Capricorn.
The planets
- Jupiter: visible from 03:08 to 05:18, highest at 05:18 in the east, 42° up, near Regulus. Magnitude −1.8.
- Saturn: visible from 19:08 to 04:38, highest at 23:28 in the north, 87° up. Magnitude 0.4.
- Mars: visible from 02:28 to 05:18, highest at 05:18 in the northeast, 50° up. Magnitude 1.0.
Not visible: Mercury, Venus (too close to the Sun or not up in the dark).
ISS and space stations
- Hubble: Sunday 18 October, 19:49 to 19:52, from the west to the west, up to 54°
- Hubble: Monday 19 October, 19:16 to 19:21, from the southwest to the northeast, up to 67°
- Tiangong: Tuesday 20 October, 04:45 to 04:47, from the northeast to the east, up to 17°
- Tiangong: Wednesday 21 October, 05:21 to 05:25, from the west to the southeast, up to 54°
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.