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Tonight’s sky in Ordos

A great night in Ordos, China: dark from 19:06 until the Moon rises at 04:00. Tonight’s highlight is the Mars & Jupiter conjunction, high in the south-east at 05:42. The Andromeda Galaxy passes almost overhead at 22:20; the Pleiades pass almost overhead at 01:35.

Worked out for the night of Thu 5 Nov 2026, on Ordos’s clock (GMT+8).

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

Tonight’s standout

Mars & Jupiter conjunction

Best at 05:42

When it is dark

Sunset	17:35
Dark from	19:06
Dark until	05:42
Sunrise	07:14
Hours of darkness	10 h 36 min

The Moon

Waning Crescent, 13% lit. It rises at 04:00. Every phase for the year ahead.

Planets

Planet	Well up	Best	Where
Saturn	17:35–03:29	22:20	52° up in the south
Jupiter	01:36–07:14	05:35	54° up in the south-east
Mars	01:15–07:14	05:35	58° up in the south-east
Uranus	19:35–07:14	01:50	71° up in the south
Neptune · binoculars or a telescope	17:35–02:56	21:50	50° up in the south
Venus	06:43–07:14	07:14	15° up in the south-east

Best to look at

Mars & Jupiter conjunction, at 05:42: 57° up in the south-east.
Andromeda Galaxy, at 22:20: 88° up in the north-east.
Pleiades, at 01:35: 75° up in the south.

The week ahead

Night	Dark	Moon	Sky
Thu 5 Nov	19:06–05:42	Moon only 13% lit	Dark
Fri 6 Nov	19:05–05:43	Moon only 7% lit	Dark
Sat 7 Nov	19:04–05:44	Moon down all night	Dark
Sun 8 Nov	19:04–05:45	Moon down all night	Dark
Mon 9 Nov	19:03–05:46	Moon down all night	Dark
Tue 10 Nov	19:02–05:47	Moon down all night	Dark
Wed 11 Nov	19:01–05:48	Moon down all night	Dark
Thu 12 Nov	19:00–05:49	Moon only 11% lit	Dark

The nearest city with a page of its own: tonight in Bayan Nur, China.

How it is worked out: the Sun, the Moon and the planets from the same ephemerides the sky map draws, for Ordos at 39.61°N, 109.78°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