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Tonight · Cameroon

Tonight’s sky in Douala

A great night in Douala, Cameroon: dark from 19:15 until the Moon rises at 03:40. Tonight’s highlight is the Mars & Jupiter conjunction, high in the east at 04:54. Saturn passes almost overhead at 22:03; the Orion Nebula passes almost overhead at 03:03.

Worked out for the night of Thu 5 Nov 2026, on Douala’s clock (GMT+1).

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

Mars & Jupiter conjunction

Best at

When it is dark

Sunset
Dark from
Dark until
Sunrise
Hours of darkness9 h 39 min

The Moon

Waning Crescent, 11% lit. It rises at 03:40. Every phase for the year ahead.

Planets

PlanetWell upBestWhere
Saturn – 87° up in the south-west
Jupiter – 54° up in the east
Mars – 56° up in the north-east
Uranus · binoculars or a telescope – 73° up in the north
Neptune · binoculars or a telescope – 85° up in the south
Venus – 0° up in the east

Best to look at

  1. Mars & Jupiter conjunction, at : 57° up in the east.
  2. Saturn, at : 87° up in the south-west.
  3. Orion Nebula, at : 80° up in the south.

The week ahead

NightDarkMoonSky
Thu 5 Nov – Moon only 11% lit Dark
Fri 6 Nov – Moon only 6% 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 12% lit Dark

The nearest city with a page of its own: tonight in Port Harcourt, Nigeria.

How it is worked out: the Sun, the Moon and the planets from the same ephemerides the sky map draws, for Douala at 4.05°N, 9.70°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