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Tonight’s stargazing conditions in every state

Stargazing forecast

Rochester, NY

Poor viewing tonight: 6%. No clear stretch forecast.

Updated Friday 8:40 PM ET.

Viewing forecast

6 percent viewing scoreTonight6% clear
Dark 6:32 PM to 5:17 AM
21 percent viewing scoreTomorrow night21% clear
Dark 6:31 PM to 5:18 AM

Brighter means clearer skies.

The Moon tonight

PhaseWaning crescent, 3% lit
During the dark hoursNo Moon in the dark hours

Where to look tonight

At 7:32 PM, an hour after full darkness. The edge of the circle is the horizon; the center is straight overhead.

NESWSaturnVoyager 1New Horizons
  • 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
  • JupiterBelow the horizon
  • MercuryBelow 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

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.