Planets tonight
Planets visible tonight
Tonight's supported local planet answer is Jupiter. Choose your forecast area on Jupiter Tonight to see its calculated window in full darkness, Moon overlap and fresh cloud for those hours. Current local positions or visibility windows for other planets are unavailable here; this page does not infer them from the season or a generic sky chart.
Choose the same verified area in the stargazing forecast for local darkness and cloud, compare areas on the map, or browse forecast locations. A clear forecast alone does not place a planet above your horizon.
How to start looking
Begin with an open view of the sky and allow your eyes time to adjust. A steady-looking bright object can be a useful finding clue, but its appearance alone is not an identification or a current ephemeris. Confirm the object and its direction with a current sky chart for your date and location before traveling.
For Jupiter, use the existing selected-area calculation and its location selector. For the Moon's effect on faint targets, use Moon Phase Tonight.
Sources and limits
NASA skywatching FAQ and NASA Jupiter observing guide are background reading on skywatching and Jupiter. Star Window's Jupiter page supplies the separate, selected-area nightly calculation. This page supplies no current positions for Mercury, Venus, Mars, Saturn, Uranus or Neptune and no promise of visibility.