Night sky tonight in Rome
The night of Sunday 18 October to Monday 19 October 2026
At a glance
Sunset 18:20, properly dark from 19:26, getting light from 06:24, sunrise 07:29 (local time).
The Moon is 53 per cent lit and waxing, setting at 23:49. It is in the zodiac sign of Capricorn.
The planets
- Jupiter: visible from 03:06 to 06:16, highest at 06:16 in the southeast, 45° up, near Regulus. Magnitude −1.8.
- Saturn: visible from 19:26 to 05:06, highest at 00:06 in the south, 50° up. Magnitude 0.4.
- Mars: visible from 02:16 to 06:16, highest at 06:16 in the southeast, 55° up. Magnitude 1.0.
Not visible: Mercury, Venus (too close to the Sun or not up in the dark).
ISS and space stations
- ISS: Monday 19 October, 04:57 to 04:58, from the east to the northeast, up to 21°
- ISS: Tuesday 20 October, 05:45 to 05:48, from the north to the northeast, up to 39°
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.