Stargazing forecast
Dayton, OH
Great viewing tonight: 81%. Clearest 11:00 PM to 5:41 AM.
Updated Friday 8:40 PM ET.
Viewing forecast
Dark 7:00 PM to 5:41 AM
Dark 6:59 PM to 5:42 AM
Brighter means clearer skies.
The Moon tonight
Where to look tonight
At 8:00 PM, an hour after full darkness. The edge of the circle is the horizon; the center is straight overhead.
- SaturnVisible in the southeast
- Voyager 1Far too faint to see, but there: in the west
- New HorizonsFar too faint to see, but there: low in the southwest
- Voyager 2Below the horizon
- MarsBelow the horizon
- MercuryBelow the horizon
- JupiterBelow the horizon
- MoonBelow the horizon
- VenusBelow the horizon
Northern lights
The northern lights are very rarely seen this far south, even during the strongest storms.
Nearby cities tonight
- Cincinnati, OH82%, 47 miles
- Columbus, OH63%, 66 miles
- Fort Wayne, IN77%, 103 miles
- Indianapolis, IN90%, 104 miles
- Lexington, KY87%, 121 miles
More from space
Where Voyager, the planets and passing asteroids are right now, on Space Scoreboard
The viewing score is Star Scoreboard’s own measure: the clear-sky forecast through the hours of full darkness, based on National Weather Service cloud cover forecasts, reduced when a bright Moon is up. It doesn’t account for city lights. The Moon is calculated with standard astronomical formulas. Planet positions courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech; the aurora outlook is from NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center. Star Scoreboard is not affiliated with NASA, NOAA or the National Weather Service.