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Tonight · Peru

Tonight’s sky in Lima

A great night in Lima, Peru: dark from 19:23 until the Moon rises at 03:30. Tonight’s highlight is the Mars & Jupiter conjunction, in the north-east at 04:19. Saturn passes almost overhead at 21:39; the Orion Nebula passes almost overhead at 02:39.

Worked out for the night of Thu 5 Nov 2026, on Lima’s clock (GMT-5).

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

Mars & Jupiter conjunction

Best at

When it is dark

Sunset
Dark from
Dark until
Sunrise
Hours of darkness8 h 56 min

The Moon

Waning Crescent, 10% lit. It rises at 03:30. Every phase for the year ahead.

Planets

PlanetWell upBestWhere
Saturn – 77° up in the north
Jupiter – 41° up in the north-east
Uranus · binoculars or a telescope – 57° up in the north
Neptune · binoculars or a telescope – 78° up in the north
Mars – 43° up in the north-east
Venus – 18° up in the east

Best to look at

  1. Mars & Jupiter conjunction, at : 45° up in the north-east.
  2. Saturn, at : 77° up in the north.
  3. Orion Nebula, at : 83° up in the north.

The week ahead

NightDarkMoonSky
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

The nearest city with a page of its own: tonight in Arequipa, Peru.

How it is worked out: the Sun, the Moon and the planets from the same ephemerides the sky map draws, for Lima at 12.05°S, 77.04°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.

This night as JSON