Stargazing forecast
Lakewood, NJ
Great viewing tonight: 83%. Clearest 6:20 PM to 5:01 AM.
Updated Friday 8:40 PM ET.
Viewing forecast
Dark 6:20 PM to 5:01 AM
Dark 6:19 PM to 5:02 AM
Brighter means clearer skies.
The Moon tonight
Where to look tonight
At 7:20 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
Not expected this far south tonight. NOAA’s Kp forecast is 4.7; it would take about Kp 9 to reach here.
Nearby cities tonight
- Edison, NJ77%, 30 miles
- Elizabeth, NJ84%, 41 miles
- New York, NY87%, 42 miles
- Jersey City, NJ85%, 44 miles
- Newark, NJ84%, 44 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.