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Tonight’s sky in Santiago

A great night in Santiago, Chile: dark from 21:46 until the Moon rises at 04:51. Tonight’s highlight is the Mars & Jupiter conjunction, low in the north-east at 05:05. Saturn is high in the north at 23:13; the Orion Nebula is high in the north at 04:13.

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

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

Mars & Jupiter conjunction

Best at

When it is dark

Sunset
Dark from
Dark until
Sunrise
Hours of darkness7 h 20 min

The Moon

Waning Crescent, 10% lit. It rises at 04:51. Every phase for the year ahead.

Planets

PlanetWell upBestWhere
Saturn – 55° up in the north
Neptune · binoculars or a telescope – 57° up in the north
Uranus · binoculars or a telescope – 36° up in the north
Jupiter – 21° up in the north-east
Mars – 22° up in the north-east
Venus – 14° up in the east

Best to look at

  1. Mars & Jupiter conjunction, at : 23° up in the north-east.
  2. Orion Nebula, at : 62° up in the north.
  3. Saturn, at : 55° up in the north.

The week ahead

NightDarkMoonSky
Thu 5 Nov – Moon only 10% lit Dark
Fri 6 Nov – Moon down all night 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 4% lit Dark
Wed 11 Nov – Moon only 8% lit Dark
Thu 12 Nov – Moon only 14% lit Dark

The nearest city with a page of its own: tonight in Córdoba, Argentina.

How it is worked out: the Sun, the Moon and the planets from the same ephemerides the sky map draws, for Santiago at 33.46°S, 70.65°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