Tonight's Sky
Helping the amateur astronomer plan their night by showing what you can see and what it will look like.

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Welcome to Tonight's Sky. Tonight's Sky's mission is to provide an online tool for amateur astronomers to plan their observing sessions. The site will generate a list of visible objects based on your criteria with links to help you plan your observing session and research your targets. A list of objects will be produces based on your inputs that are visible at your location when you plan to observe. Any object below the local horizon will be excluded. On the next page you will see details about each object. You can research any object of interest with the links provided. You can also select the objects you plan to observe and a page will be provided for you to download or print and take with you when you go out. Happy hunting.

Where you are observing from tonight:    Latitude:      Longitude:      Local Horizon: All above values are measured in degrees. Coordinates of World Cities US & Canadian Cities TimeZone: NDT Newfoundland Daylight Time UTC -2:30 hours NST Newfoundland Standard Time UTC -3:30 hours ADT Atlantic Daylight Time UTC -3 hours AST Atlantic Standard Time UTC -4 hours EDT Eastern Daylight Time UTC -4 hours EST Eastern Standard Time UTC -5 hours CDT Central Daylight Time UTC -5 hours CST Central Standard Time UTC -6 hours MDT Mountain Daylight Time UTC -6 hours MST Mountain Standard Time UTC -7 hours PDT Pacific Daylight Time UTC -7 hours AKDT Alaska Daylight Time UTC -8 hours PST Pacific Standard Time UTC -8 hours AKST Alaska Standard Time UTC -9 hours HADT Hawaii-Aleutian Daylight Time UTC -9 hours HAST Hawaii-Aleutian Standard Time UTC -10 hours HAT Heure Avancée de Terre-Neuve UTC -2:30 hours HNT Heure Normale de Terre-Neuve UTC -3:30 hours HAA Heure Avancée de l'Atlantique UTC -3 hours HNA Heure Normale de l'Atlantique UTC -4 hours HAE Heure Avancée de l'Est UTC -4 hours HNE Heure Normale de l'Est UTC -5 hours HAC Heure Avancée du Centre UTC -5 hours HNC Heure Normale du Centre UTC -6 hours HAR Heure Avancée des Rocheuses UTC -6 hours HNR Heure Normale des Rocheuses UTC -7 hours HAP Heure Avancée du Pacifique UTC -7 hours HNP Heure Normale du Pacifique UTC -8 hours HAY Heure Avancée du Yukon UTC -8 hours HNY Heure Normale du Yukon UTC -9 hours WET Western European Time UTC WEST Western European Summer Time UTC +1 hour IST Irish Summer Time UTC +1 hour MEZ Mitteleuropäische Zeit UTC +1 hour MESZ Mitteleuropäische Sommerzeit UTC +2 hours CET Central European Time UTC +1 hour CEST Central European Summer Time UTC +2 hours BST British Summer Time UTC +1 hour EET Eastern European Time UTC +2 hours EEST Eastern European Summer Time UTC +3 hours CXT Christmas Island Time UTC +7 hours WST Western Standard Time UTC +8 hours CST Central Standard Time UTC +9:30 hours CDT Central Daylight Time UTC +10:30 hours EST Eastern Standard Time UTC +10 hours EDT Eastern Daylight Time UTC +11 hours NFT Norfolk (Island) Time UTC +11:30 hours AWST Australian Western Standard Time UTC +8 hours ACST Australian Central Standard Time UTC +9:30 hours AEST Australian Eastern Standard Time UTC +10 hours ACDT Australian Central Daylight Time UTC +10:30 hours AEDT Australian Eastern Daylight Time UTC +11 hours UTC Coordinated Universal Time UTC GMT Greenwich Mean Time UTC A Alpha Time Zone UTC +1 hour B Bravo Time Zone UTC +2 hours C Charlie Time Zone UTC +3 hours D Delta Time Zone UTC +4 hours E Echo Time Zone UTC +5 hours F Foxtrot Time Zone UTC +6 hours G Golf Time Zone UTC +7 hours H Hotel Time Zone UTC +8 hours I India Time Zone UTC +9 hours K Kilo Time Zone UTC +10 hours L Lima Time Zone UTC +11 hours M Mike Time Zone UTC +12 hours N November Time Zone UTC -1 hour O Oscar Time Zone UTC -2 hours P Papa Time Zone UTC -3 hours Q Quebec Time Zone UTC -4 hours R Romeo Time Zone UTC -5 hours S Sierra Time Zone UTC -6 hours T Tango Time Zone UTC -7 hours U Uniform Time Zone UTC -8 hours V Victor Time Zone UTC -9 hours W Whiskey Time Zone UTC -10 hours X X-ray Time Zone UTC -11 hours Y Yankee Time Zone UTC -12 hours Z Zulu Time Zone UTC      Date (MM/DD/YYYY): Start observing at hour for hours.  What you want to observe tonight:    Difficulty: All Object Type: All Naked Eye: limiting mag. 4.5 Binoculars: limiting mag. 6.5 Small scope: limiting mag. 7.5 Remember Settings Easy: limiting mag. 8.5 Moderate: limiting mag. 9.5 Challenging: limiting mag. 10.5   Globular Clusters Open Clusters Nebula Galaxies Planets Comets Asteroids Double Stars Star Group

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