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Tonight’s sky in Recife

A great night in Recife, Brazil: dark from 18:28 until the Moon rises at 02:39. Tonight’s highlight is the Mars & Jupiter conjunction, in the north-east at 03:37. Saturn passes almost overhead at 21:00; the Orion Nebula passes almost overhead at 02:00.

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

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

Mars & Jupiter conjunction

Best at

When it is dark

Sunset
Dark from
Dark until
Sunrise
Hours of darkness9 h 09 min

The Moon

Waning Crescent, 10% lit. It rises at 02:39. Every phase for the year ahead.

Planets

PlanetWell upBestWhere
Saturn – 81° up in the north
Jupiter – 45° up in the north-east
Uranus · binoculars or a telescope – 61° up in the north
Mars – 47° up in the north-east
Neptune · binoculars or a telescope – 82° up in the north
Venus – 19° up in the east

Best to look at

  1. Mars & Jupiter conjunction, at : 48° up in the north-east.
  2. Saturn, at : 81° up in the north.
  3. Orion Nebula, at : 87° up in the north-west.

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 down all night Dark
Wed 11 Nov – Moon only 7% lit Dark
Thu 12 Nov – Moon only 13% lit Dark

The nearest city with a page of its own: tonight in Fortaleza, Brazil.

How it is worked out: the Sun, the Moon and the planets from the same ephemerides the sky map draws, for Recife at 8.05°S, 34.90°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