Tonight · DR Congo
Tonight’s sky in Kinshasa
A great night in Kinshasa, DR Congo: dark from 19:02 until the Moon rises at 03:14. Tonight’s highlight is the Mars & Jupiter conjunction, high in the north-east at 04:21. Saturn passes almost overhead at 21:35; the Orion Nebula passes almost overhead at 02:35.
Worked out for the night of Thu 5 Nov 2026, on Kinshasa’s clock (GMT+1).
Mars & Jupiter conjunction
Best atWhen it is dark
| Sunset | |
|---|---|
| Dark from | |
| Dark until | |
| Sunrise | |
| Hours of darkness | 9 h 19 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, 11% lit. It rises at 03:14. Every phase for the year ahead.
Planets
| Planet | Well up | Best | Where |
|---|---|---|---|
| Saturn | – | 85° up in the north | |
| Jupiter | – | 49° up in the north-east | |
| Mars | – | 51° up in the north-east | |
| Uranus · binoculars or a telescope | – | 65° up in the north | |
| Neptune · binoculars or a telescope | – | 86° up in the north | |
| Venus | – | 1° up in the east |
Best to look at
- Mars & Jupiter conjunction, at : 51° up in the north-east.
- Saturn, at : 85° up in the north.
- Orion Nebula, at : 89° up in the south.
The week ahead
| Night | Dark | Moon | Sky |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 Luanda, Angola.
How it is worked out: the Sun, the Moon and the planets from the same ephemerides the sky map draws, for Kinshasa at 4.32°S, 15.31°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.