Notable nights
Eclipses, great comets, planets side by side, and evenings history remembers. Each sky here is computed for one place and one minute, the way we compute yours.
The first total eclipse over Britain in two centuries, low in the morning sky of Yorkshire.
Two minutes of night over Split on a February morning, with Jupiter and Saturn side by side.
The Moon over Houston at the minute Neil Armstrong stepped onto it.
The sky over Bornholmer Straße as the first crossing in the Wall opened.
The great comet of 1997 in the north-west over Zakopane, on the day it came closest to the Sun.
Two minutes of night at midday over Salzburg, with Venus and Mercury beside the black Sun.
Orion and Sirius in the south over Vienna as the year 2000 began.
Mars closer than at any time in almost 60,000 years, in the south-east over Lisbon.
The longest total lunar eclipse of the century, with Mars beside it over Rome.
The brightest comet of the northern sky since Hale-Bopp, beneath the Plough over the Pyrenees.
Jupiter and Saturn a tenth of a degree apart, low in the south-west after sunset.
The bright comet of October 2024, low in the west over the sea at Split.
The Sun went dark low in the west over Burgos, less than an hour before sunset.
Four and a half minutes of totality over the Strait of Gibraltar, still to come.
A ring of sunlight low over the Algarve, an hour before sunset, still to come.
Almost four minutes of night in a winter afternoon over Sydney, still to come.
A red Moon over Vienna on the last evening of 2028, hours before midnight, still to come.
An hour and 42 minutes of red Moon over Lisbon before dawn, still to come.
A red Moon high over Warsaw on one of the longest nights of the year, still to come.
The two brightest planets a third of a degree apart over Rome at dawn, still to come.
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