Night sky tonight in Reykjavík
The night of Sunday 18 October to Monday 19 October 2026
At a glance
Sunset 17:51, properly dark from 19:44, getting light from 06:42, sunrise 08:35 (local time).
The Moon is 54 per cent lit and waxing, rising at 18:06, setting at 21:18. It is in the zodiac sign of Capricorn.
The planets
- Jupiter: visible from 02:54 to 06:34, highest at 06:34 in the southeast, 33° up, near Regulus. Magnitude −1.8.
- Saturn: visible from 19:44 to 04:54, highest at 00:24 in the south, 27° up. Magnitude 0.4.
- Mars: visible from 01:34 to 06:34, highest at 06:34 in the southeast, 40° up. Magnitude 1.0.
Not visible: Mercury, Venus (too close to the Sun or not up in the dark).
ISS and space stations
No visible passes this night or the next two.
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.