Stargazing forecast
Fayetteville, NC
Great viewing tonight: 70%. Clearest 6:42 PM to 10:00 PM.
Updated Friday 8:40 PM ET.
Viewing forecast
Dark 6:42 PM to 5:17 AM
Dark 6:41 PM to 5:18 AM
Brighter means clearer skies.
The Moon tonight
Where to look tonight
At 7:42 PM, an hour after full darkness. The edge of the circle is the horizon; the center is straight overhead.
- SaturnVisible in the southeast
- New HorizonsFar too faint to see, but there: in the southwest
- Voyager 1Far too faint to see, but there: low in the west
- Voyager 2Below the horizon
- MercuryBelow the horizon
- MarsBelow 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
- Cary, NC81%, 49 miles
- Raleigh, NC83%, 55 miles
- Durham, NC85%, 62 miles
- High Point, NC83%, 85 miles
- Greensboro, NC84%, 85 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.