Night sky tonight in Tokyo
The night of Sunday 18 October to Monday 19 October 2026
At a glance
Sunset 16:59, properly dark from 17:59, getting light from 04:53, sunrise 05:53 (local time).
The Moon is 50 per cent lit and waxing, setting at 22:19. It is in the zodiac sign of Capricorn.
The planets
- Jupiter: visible from 01:49 to 04:49, highest at 04:49 in the east, 48° up, near Regulus. Magnitude −1.8.
- Saturn: visible from 17:59 to 03:39, highest at 22:39 in the south, 56° up. Magnitude 0.4.
- Mars: visible from 00:49 to 04:49, highest at 04:49 in the southeast, 58° 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, 04:12 to 04:14, from the north to the northeast, up to 26°
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.