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Tonight’s stargazing conditions in every state

Stargazing forecast

Fairbanks, AK

Poor viewing tonight: 22%. No clear stretch forecast.

Updated Friday 8:40 PM ET.

Viewing forecast

22 percent viewing scoreTonight22% clear
Dark 7:04 PM to 6:07 AM
23 percent viewing scoreTomorrow night23% clear
Dark 7:01 PM to 6:10 AM

Brighter means clearer skies.

The Moon tonight

PhaseWaning crescent, 2% lit
During the dark hoursNo Moon in the dark hours

Where to look tonight

At 8:04 PM, an hour after full darkness. The edge of the circle is the horizon; the center is straight overhead.

NESWSaturnVoyager 1
  • SaturnVisible in the southeast
  • Voyager 1Far too faint to see, but there: in the west
  • New HorizonsBelow the horizon
  • MarsBelow the horizon
  • JupiterBelow the horizon
  • MercuryBelow the horizon
  • VenusBelow the horizon
  • MoonBelow the horizon
  • Voyager 2Below the horizon

Northern lights

Possible tonight if skies are clear and dark. NOAA’s Kp forecast is 4.7. Look north, away from city lights.

Nearby cities tonight

More from space

Where Voyager, the planets and passing asteroids are right now, on Space Scoreboard

The viewing score is Star Scoreboard’s own measure: the clear-sky forecast through the hours of full darkness, based on National Weather Service cloud cover forecasts, reduced when a bright Moon is up. It doesn’t account for city lights. The Moon is calculated with standard astronomical formulas. Planet positions courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech; the aurora outlook is from NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center. Star Scoreboard is not affiliated with NASA, NOAA or the National Weather Service.