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Tonight’s sky in Chennai

A great night in Chennai, India: dark from 18:53 until the Moon rises at 03:22. Tonight’s highlight is the Mars & Jupiter conjunction, high in the east at 04:51. Saturn passes almost overhead at 21:41; the Andromeda Galaxy is high in the north at 21:56.

Worked out for the night of Thu 5 Nov 2026, on Chennai’s clock (GMT+5:30).

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

Mars & Jupiter conjunction

Best at

When it is dark

Sunset
Dark from
Dark until
Sunrise
Hours of darkness9 h 58 min

The Moon

Waning Crescent, 13% lit. It rises at 03:22. Every phase for the year ahead.

Planets

PlanetWell upBestWhere
Saturn – 78° up in the south
Jupiter – 57° up in the east
Mars – 60° up in the east
Uranus · binoculars or a telescope – 82° up in the north
Neptune · binoculars or a telescope – 76° up in the south
Venus – 19° up in the east

Best to look at

  1. Mars & Jupiter conjunction, at : 61° up in the east.
  2. Saturn, at : 78° up in the south.
  3. Andromeda Galaxy, at : 62° up in the north.

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 only 6% lit Dark
Thu 12 Nov – Moon only 11% lit Dark

The nearest city with a page of its own: tonight in Bengaluru, India.

How it is worked out: the Sun, the Moon and the planets from the same ephemerides the sky map draws, for Chennai at 13.08°N, 80.27°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