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Tonight’s sky in Maceió

A great night in Maceió, Brazil: dark from 18:34 until the Moon rises at 02:42. Tonight’s highlight is the Mars & Jupiter conjunction, in the north-east at 03:38. Saturn passes almost overhead at 21:06; the Orion Nebula passes almost overhead at 01:51.

Worked out for the night of Thu 5 Nov 2026, on Maceió’s clock (GMT-3).

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

Mars & Jupiter conjunction

Best at

When it is dark

Sunset
Dark from
Dark until
Sunrise
Hours of darkness9 h 04 min

The Moon

Waning Crescent, 10% lit. It rises at 02:42. Every phase for the year ahead.

Planets

PlanetWell upBestWhere
Saturn – 79° up in the north
Jupiter – 45° up in the north-east
Uranus · binoculars or a telescope – 59° up in the north
Neptune · binoculars or a telescope – 81° up in the north
Mars – 47° up in the north-east
Venus – 0° up in the east

Best to look at

  1. Mars & Jupiter conjunction, at : 47° up in the north-east.
  2. Saturn, at : 79° up in the north.
  3. Orion Nebula, at : 85° up in the north.

The week ahead

NightDarkMoonSky
Thu 5 Nov – Moon only 10% lit Dark
Fri 6 Nov – Moon only 5% 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 only 3% lit Dark
Wed 11 Nov – Moon only 7% lit Dark
Thu 12 Nov – Moon only 13% lit Dark

Tonight here reads much as it does from Recife, Brazil, whose page says it for both.

How it is worked out: the Sun, the Moon and the planets from the same ephemerides the sky map draws, for Maceió at 9.67°S, 35.74°W, 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