The Planetarium

Lie back.

Your sky, this minute, held overhead: zenith at the center, horizon at the rim, north up and east to the left — the way a chart reads when you hold it above you.

Planets computed from JPL’s elements (the Orrery’s engine, cross-checked against an independent Sun) · the Moon to about a degree · refreshed each minute

The station, over you

The dome’s saved spot is the predictor’s too — nothing uploaded

Next passes over you

Predictions need your location. “Remember my sky” keeps it in this browser only, rounded to ~11 km — one click next time, nothing uploaded either way.

Your location is rounded to about 11 km before it’s stored, and used only to compute passes.

Tonight’s planets

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JPL Horizons could not be reached just now, so no planet positions are shown — nothing cached, nothing invented.

The aurora, from here

Kp 3.67 · Quiet — Aurora confined to high latitudes

The Moon, and the next shooting stars

Phase from a mean model · showers from the annual calendar

Waxing Gibbous, 81% illuminated.

Leonids — peaks 17 November, up to ~15 meteors/hour under dark skies.

Geminids — peaks 14 December, up to ~150 meteors/hour under dark skies.

Ursids — peaks 22 December, up to ~10 meteors/hour under dark skies.

The full calendar — eclipses and every shower →Saw something? Tell the room →

ISS passes are computed from wheretheiss.at ephemeris and labelled approximate; aurora probability is NOAA’s OVATION model; planet geometry is JPL Horizons; the Moon is a mean-phase model. Your location is used for the lookup you request and is never stored on our servers.