Tonight · Ecuador
Tonight’s sky in Quito
A great night in Quito, Ecuador: dark from 19:12 until the Moon rises at 03:42. Tonight’s highlight is the Mars & Jupiter conjunction, high in the north-east at 04:42. Saturn passes almost overhead at 21:46; the Orion Nebula passes almost overhead at 02:46.
Worked out for the night of Thu 5 Nov 2026, on Quito’s clock (GMT-5).
Mars & Jupiter conjunction
Best atWhen it is dark
| Sunset | |
|---|---|
| Dark from | |
| Dark until | |
| Sunrise | |
| Hours of darkness | 9 h 30 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, 10% lit. It rises at 03:42. Every phase for the year ahead.
Planets
| Planet | Well up | Best | Where |
|---|---|---|---|
| Saturn | – | 88° up in the north-east | |
| Jupiter | – | 50° up in the east | |
| Mars | – | 52° up in the north-east | |
| Uranus · binoculars or a telescope | – | 69° up in the north | |
| Neptune · binoculars or a telescope | – | 88° up in the east | |
| Venus | – | 19° up in the east |
Best to look at
- Mars & Jupiter conjunction, at : 54° up in the north-east.
- Saturn, at : 88° up in the north-east.
- Orion Nebula, at : 85° up in the south.
The week ahead
| Night | Dark | Moon | Sky |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thu 5 Nov | – | Moon only 10% lit | Dark |
| Fri 6 Nov | – | Moon only 5% 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 only 4% lit | Dark |
| Wed 11 Nov | – | Moon only 8% lit | Dark |
| Thu 12 Nov | – | Moon only 14% lit | Dark |
Tonight here reads much as it does from Guayaquil, Ecuador, 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 Quito at 0.18°S, 78.47°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.