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Tonight · Australia

Tonight’s sky in Perth

A great night in Perth, Australia: dark from 20:14 until the Moon rises at 03:12. Tonight’s highlight is the Mars & Jupiter conjunction, low in the north-east at 03:45. Saturn is high in the north at 21:59; the Orion Nebula is high in the north at 02:59.

Worked out for the night of Thu 5 Nov 2026, on Perth’s clock (GMT+8).

Open tonight’s plan for Perth The live sky, ISS passes and the cloud forecast, with Perth already chosen.
Tonight’s standout

Mars & Jupiter conjunction

Best at

When it is dark

Sunset
Dark from
Dark until
Sunrise
Hours of darkness7 h 30 min

The Moon

Waning Crescent, 13% lit. It rises at 03:12. Every phase for the year ahead.

Planets

PlanetWell upBestWhere
Saturn – 57° up in the north
Neptune · binoculars or a telescope – 59° up in the north
Uranus · binoculars or a telescope – 37° up in the north
Jupiter – 24° up in the north-east
Mars – 24° up in the north-east
Venus – 14° up in the east

Best to look at

  1. Mars & Jupiter conjunction, at : 24° up in the north-east.
  2. Orion Nebula, at : 63° up in the north.
  3. Saturn, at : 57° up in the north.

The week ahead

NightDarkMoonSky
Thu 5 Nov – Moon only 13% lit Dark
Fri 6 Nov – Moon only 7% lit Dark
Sat 7 Nov – Moon down all night Dark
Sun 8 Nov – Moon down all night Dark
Mon 9 Nov – Moon down all night Dark
Tue 10 Nov – Moon down all night Dark
Wed 11 Nov – Moon only 5% lit Dark
Thu 12 Nov – Moon only 11% lit Dark

The nearest city with a page of its own: tonight in Adelaide, Australia.

How it is worked out: the Sun, the Moon and the planets from the same ephemerides the sky map draws, for Perth at 31.95°S, 115.86°E, with a flat horizon and the light-pollution atlas’s estimate of its sky. Dark means the Sun 18° below the horizon; a planet counts once it is 10° up. The methods and their measured errors.

This night as JSON