Tonight · New Zealand
Tonight’s sky in Christchurch
A great night in Christchurch, New Zealand: dark from 22:14 and no Moon at all. Tonight’s highlight is the Mars & Jupiter conjunction, low in the north-east at 06:05. 47 Tucanae is high in the south at 22:49; the Large Magellanic Cloud is high in the south at 03:49.
Worked out for the night of Thu 5 Nov 2026, on Christchurch’s clock (GMT+13).
Mars & Jupiter conjunction
Best atWhen it is dark
| Sunset | |
|---|---|
| Dark from | |
| Dark until | |
| Sunrise | |
| Hours of darkness | 5 h 57 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, 14% lit. It stays below the horizon all night. Every phase for the year ahead.
Planets
| Planet | Well up | Best | Where |
|---|---|---|---|
| Saturn | – | 45° up in the north | |
| Neptune · binoculars or a telescope | – | 47° up in the north | |
| Uranus · binoculars or a telescope | – | 26° up in the north | |
| Jupiter | – | 8° up in the north-east | |
| Venus | – | 11° up in the east | |
| Mars | – | 9° up in the north-east |
Best to look at
- Mars & Jupiter conjunction, at : 25° up in the north-east.
- Large Magellanic Cloud, at : 64° up in the south.
- 47 Tucanae, at : 62° up in the south.
The week ahead
| Night | Dark | Moon | Sky |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thu 5 Nov | – | Moon down all night | Dark |
| Fri 6 Nov | – | Moon down all night | 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 5% lit | Dark |
| Thu 12 Nov | – | Moon only 10% lit | Dark |
The nearest city with a page of its own: tonight in Wellington, New Zealand.
How it is worked out: the Sun, the Moon and the planets from the same ephemerides the sky map draws, for Christchurch at 43.53°S, 172.64°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.