The sky over Kish

The moon

Waxing crescent
Waxing crescent - illuminated 13.8%
Illuminated 13.8%
Age of the moon 3.7 days
Moonrise 09:15
Moonset 19:42
Distance 397,980 km

Where the month is

New moon 10 October
First quarter 18 October

First quarter in 4 days.

The sun

Sunrise 05:52
Solar noon 11:40
Sunset 17:27
Daylight 11 h 35 min

When it actually gets dark

Civil dusk 17:50
Nautical dusk 18:17
Astronomical dusk 18:44

Astronomical dusk is when the sky stops adding its own light. That is when to look.

  • The moon is nearly dark, so this is one of the best weeks of the month for seeing faint stars.
  • Days are getting shorter - about 1 minutes less daylight than yesterday.

The planets tonight

Jupiter

Before dawn
Rises 01:28
Sets 14:32
Brightness mag -1.9

Bright enough to see from a lit street.

Mars

Before dawn
Rises 00:28
Sets 13:53
Brightness mag 1

Kish from orbit

Kish from orbit
Kish from orbit True colour, from the MODIS instrument on NASA’s Terra satellite. 12 October 2026
The Persian Gulf by day
The Persian Gulf by day The whole Persian Gulf in one pass, with the coastlines drawn on. 12 October 2026
The Persian Gulf at night
The Persian Gulf at night VIIRS is sensitive enough to image city light: this is the region drawn by where people are. 12 October 2026

These are assembled from the strips the satellite saw as it passed. A seam, a black band or a missing corner is a gap in that day’s coverage, not a fault in the picture.

Every earlier day

NASA’s picture of the day

NASA Science
NASA Science This stairway in Chile brings you only a little bit closer to heaven. But ooh, the sky above it makes you wonder. For example, you may wonder about the dark lane of our own Milky Way galaxy rising behind the expansive Atacama Desert in Chile, the band of zodiacal light on the upper left, the green and red airglow just above the horizon, the star Spica in the zodiacal light stripe, and, at the very top on the right, the Small Magellanic Cloud galaxy. The Desert Staircase sculpture is in the foreground, and this image was timed to catch the picturesque peering perch just in front of the near-vertical Milky Way band. Upon close inspection of the horizon you can find, left to right, some Andes Mountains, the Licancabur volcano, and the town lights of San Pedro de Atacama. The featured wide-angle composite was captured in July 2025.Tomorrow's picture: space bees Published by NASA on 14 October 2026

Positions, times and imagery from NASA - the JPL DE421 ephemeris, NASA Worldview satellite imagery, and the Astronomy Picture of the Day.