Night sky tonight in Singapore
The night of Sunday 18 October to Monday 19 October 2026
At a glance
Sunset 18:49, properly dark from 19:38, getting light from 06:00, sunrise 06:49 (local time).
The Moon is 50 per cent lit and waxing, setting at 01:03. It is in the zodiac sign of Capricorn.
The planets
- Jupiter: visible from 03:38 to 05:58, highest at 05:58 in the east, 44° up, near Regulus. Magnitude −1.8.
- Saturn: visible from 19:38 to 05:08, highest at 23:58 in the northwest, 90° up. Magnitude 0.4.
- Mars: visible from 02:58 to 05:58, highest at 05:58 in the northeast, 53° 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, 20:07 to 20:10, from the southwest to the south, up to 55°
- Hubble: Monday 19 October, 19:38 to 19:40, from the southeast to the east, up to 52°
- Tiangong: Tuesday 20 October, 05:08 to 05:09, from the northeast to the east, up to 16°
- Hubble: Tuesday 20 October, 20:41 to 20:43, from the west to the northwest, up to 17°
- Tiangong: Wednesday 21 October, 05:44 to 05:48, from the west to the southeast, up to 61°
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.