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Stargazing forecast

Kahului, HI

Great viewing tonight: 77%. Clearest 7:03 PM to 5:16 AM.

Updated Friday 8:40 PM ET.

Viewing forecast

77 percent viewing scoreTonight77% clear
Dark 7:03 PM to 5:16 AM
76 percent viewing scoreTomorrow night76% clear
Dark 7:02 PM to 5:16 AM

Brighter means clearer skies.

The Moon tonight

PhaseWaning crescent, 2% lit
During the dark hoursNo Moon in the dark hours

Where to look tonight

At 8:03 PM, an hour after full darkness. The edge of the circle is the horizon; the center is straight overhead.

NESWSaturnVoyager 1Voyager 2New Horizons
  • 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 2Far too faint to see, but there: low in the south
  • MercuryBelow the horizon
  • MoonBelow the horizon
  • MarsBelow the horizon
  • VenusBelow the horizon
  • JupiterBelow the horizon

Northern lights

The northern lights are very rarely seen this far south, even during the strongest storms.

Nearby cities tonight

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.