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Tonight’s sky in Shiyan

A great night in Shiyan, China: dark from 19:06 until the Moon rises at 03:52. Tonight’s highlight is the Mars & Jupiter conjunction, high in the south-east at 05:34. Saturn is high in the south at 22:13; the Andromeda Galaxy passes almost overhead at 22:28.

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

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

Mars & Jupiter conjunction

Best at

When it is dark

Sunset
Dark from
Dark until
Sunrise
Hours of darkness10 h 28 min

The Moon

Waning Crescent, 13% lit. It rises at 03:52. Every phase for the year ahead.

Planets

PlanetWell upBestWhere
Saturn – 58° up in the south
Jupiter – 57° up in the south-east
Mars – 61° up in the south-east
Uranus – 78° up in the south
Neptune · binoculars or a telescope – 57° up in the south
Venus – 17° up in the south-east

Best to look at

  1. Mars & Jupiter conjunction, at : 61° up in the south-east.
  2. Andromeda Galaxy, at : 81° up in the north.
  3. Saturn, at : 59° up in the south.

The week ahead

NightDarkMoonSky
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 Xi’an, 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 Shiyan at 32.65°N, 110.78°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