Tonight · Iraq
Tonight’s sky in Basra
A great night in Basra, Iraq: dark from 18:19 until the Moon rises at 03:14. Tonight’s highlight is the Mars & Jupiter conjunction, high in the south-east at 04:45. Saturn is high in the south at 21:28; the Andromeda Galaxy passes almost overhead at 21:28.
Worked out for the night of Thu 5 Nov 2026, on Basra’s clock (GMT+3).
Mars & Jupiter conjunction
Best atWhen it is dark
| Sunset | |
|---|---|
| Dark from | |
| Dark until | |
| Sunrise | |
| Hours of darkness | 10 h 25 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, 12% lit. It rises at 03:14. Every phase for the year ahead.
Planets
| Planet | Well up | Best | Where |
|---|---|---|---|
| Saturn | – | 61° up in the south | |
| Jupiter | – | 59° up in the south-east | |
| Mars | – | 63° up in the south-east | |
| Uranus · binoculars or a telescope | – | 80° up in the south | |
| Neptune · binoculars or a telescope | – | 59° up in the south | |
| Venus | – | 0° up in the east |
Best to look at
- Mars & Jupiter conjunction, at : 62° up in the south-east.
- Saturn, at : 61° up in the south.
- Andromeda Galaxy, at : 79° up in the north.
The week ahead
| Night | Dark | Moon | Sky |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thu 5 Nov | – | Moon only 12% 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 down all night | Dark |
| Thu 12 Nov | – | Moon only 12% lit | Dark |
Tonight here reads much as it does from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 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 Basra at 30.51°N, 47.81°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.