Tonight · China
Tonight’s sky in Lanzhou
A great night in Lanzhou, China: dark from 19:32 until the Moon rises at 04:23. Tonight’s highlight is the Mars & Jupiter conjunction, high in the south-east at 06:04. Saturn is high in the south at 22:35; the Andromeda Galaxy passes almost overhead at 22:50.
Worked out for the night of Thu 5 Nov 2026, on Lanzhou’s clock (GMT+8).
Mars & Jupiter conjunction
Best atWhen it is dark
| Sunset | |
|---|---|
| Dark from | |
| Dark until | |
| Sunrise | |
| Hours of darkness | 10 h 32 min |
The Sun does not get 18° below the horizon here tonight, so the sky never goes fully dark: these are the darkest hours there are.
The Moon
Waning Crescent, 13% lit. It rises at 04:23. Every phase for the year ahead.
Planets
| Planet | Well up | Best | Where |
|---|---|---|---|
| Saturn | – | 55° up in the south | |
| Jupiter | – | 55° up in the south-east | |
| Mars | – | 58° up in the south-east | |
| Uranus · binoculars or a telescope | – | 75° up in the south | |
| Neptune · binoculars or a telescope | – | 53° up in the south | |
| Venus | – | 16° up in the south-east |
Best to look at
- Mars & Jupiter conjunction, at : 59° up in the south-east.
- Andromeda Galaxy, at : 85° up in the north.
- Saturn, at : 55° up in the south.
The week ahead
| Night | Dark | Moon | Sky |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 down all night | Dark |
| Thu 12 Nov | – | Moon only 11% lit | Dark |
Tonight here reads much as it does from Tianshui, China, 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 Lanzhou at 36.06°N, 103.84°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.