Night sky over Mumbai
The page stands in Mumbai (19.1° N, 72.9° E) and looks up at tonight's sky over it: by day its clock starts at Mumbai's dusk, so the Moon, the planets and the bright stars are where they will be once it's dark there, with the satellites in sunlight crossing between them.
The list below says tonight over Mumbai in words, worked out as the page is served: sunset and when it gets dark on Mumbai's clock (Asia/Kolkata), the Moon's phase and when it's up, and for each planet when it rises or sets, how high it climbs and where to face, with the next meteor shower.
Tonight over Mumbai, Mon 2 Nov
- Sunsets , dark from to , rises
- Moonlast quarter, 42% lit: rises in the ENE, 63° up in the E by dawn
- Marsrises in the ENE, 69° up in the E by dawn · magnitude 0.9, in Leo
- Jupiterrises in the ENE, 64° up in the E by dawn · magnitude −2.0, in Leo
- Saturn34° up in the ESE at dusk, highest at , 72° up in the S, sets in the W · magnitude 0.4, in Cetus
- Not seen tonightMercury, Venus: below the horizon or too low while the sky is dark
- Leonidsthe next meteor shower, peaking around 17 Nov at up to 15 meteors an hour under a dark sky, best from anywhere, before dawn
Times on Mumbai's clock (GMT+5:30), worked out with astronomy-engine as this page was served.
How to read it
Mumbai, at 19.1° north, sits close enough to the equator that the planets climb nearly overhead, and its sky reaches far south: Canopus, the second brightest star, rides low in the south on winter evenings, and the Southern Cross shows briefly above the southern horizon on spring nights, a sight no European or North American city has.
The monsoon closes the sky from June to September under nearly unbroken cloud; from November to February the nights are dry and clear, if hazy near the city. The Nehru Planetarium in Worli runs sky shows, and the hills of the Western Ghats, around Bhandardara, are the nearest skies dark enough for the Milky Way.
Questions
Can you see the Southern Cross from Mumbai?
Yes, low in the south, about 10° up at most: in March, April and May it stands highest late in the evening, upright over the horizon. You need a clear view over the sea or open ground to the south, such as the sea front at the tip of Colaba.
When is the best time for stargazing in Mumbai?
November to February, after the monsoon and before the summer haze, when the nights are dry and the winter stars are up. During the monsoon the clouds rarely part long enough for anything but the Moon.
Which planets are up over Mumbai tonight?
The list above gives each one’s rise or set time on India’s clock, how high it climbs and which way to look. From Mumbai the planets pass high overhead, so even a city view between buildings often catches one.
Sources
The same view as a link: livex.earth/?clouds=0&radar=0&imerg=0&sats=featured&launches=0&aurora=0&storms=0&severe=0&fires=0&quakes=0&lightning=0&events=0&snow=0&tsunami=0&view=sky&lat=19.08&lon=72.88&tonight=1
Drag to look around, scroll to zoom. Settings live in the URL, so any view can be shared.
view | fixed · sunrel · orbit · moon · track |
track | what to follow: iss, tiangong, satgus (Mark Rober's Space Selfie satellite), launch, sunrise, moonrise |
lat, lon | viewer position (fixed) or offset from the subsolar point (sunrel) |
period, inc | orbit period (hours) and inclination (°) |
dist | viewer distance in Earth radii; 0 = orthographic |
mag, rot | size and rotation (°) |
wait | seconds between redraws (default 60) |
time, speed | ISO start time; clock multiplier |
clouds, lights, grid, markers, label | 0 or 1 |
borders | Country borders (Natural Earth), the disputed and undefined ones dashed, and once zoomed in, the countries’ names and the states’ and provinces’ lines, off by default (key B) |
terminator | The day–night line (Sun on the horizon), with the twilight band’s edges dashed: the Sun 6° up and 6° down, off by default (key Z) |
stars | 1, 0, or photo (dimmed like a camera exposed for sunlit Earth) |
sats | all (Starlink + named), featured, or 0 |
aurora, storms, fires, quakes | 0 hides that layer (keys A H F E) |
buoys, buoy | Buoys on the globe, off by default (key Shift+B); buoy=46026 opens that buoy’s window. Click a buoy to open it. |
meteors | The last day’s meteors (Global Meteor Network), recent fireballs and the coming close approaches (NASA/JPL), off by default (key Shift+M) |
iono | Ionosphere wash: tec electron content (GloTEC), drap HF radio absorption (D-RAP), or 0 (key Shift+I) |
lightning, events, snow | lightning, GDACS floods/wildfires/eruptions with NASA's flood map and USGS's US volcano alert levels, snow and ice (keys L D I) |
sst | Sea temperature: temp, anomaly (El Niño, marine heatwaves; 1 means this), or 0 (key O) |
lst | Land surface temperature (VIIRS, MODIS): auto the afternoon’s by day and the night’s by night (1 means this), day, night, or 0 (key Shift+K) |
soil | Soil moisture (SMAP L4): surface the top 5 cm (1 means this), root the root zone to 1 m, or 0 (key Shift+W) |
chl | Chlorophyll-a (MODIS Aqua, Terra), the last eight days: 1 or 0 (key Shift+O; off by default) |
aerosol | Aerosols: aod VIIRS optical depth (1 means this), index the OMPS UV aerosol index, smoke and dust, or 0 (key Shift+Y; off by default) |
waves, wavesrc | Wave height and direction (NOAA GFS-Wave, WAVEWATCH III) as trails that travel with the waves, coloured by height: 1 or 0 (off by default); folder holding its latest.json |
currents, currentsrc | Ocean surface currents (NASA OSCAR, a daily mean, two or three days behind) as trails carried by them, coloured by speed: 1 or 0 (off by default; key Q cycles waves → currents → both → off); folder holding its latest.json |
coral, coralsrc | Coral bleaching heat stress (NOAA Coral Reef Watch degree heating weeks), drawn within 35° of the equator: 1 or 0 (key Shift+R; off by default); folder holding its latest.json |
ash | volcanic ash: EUMETSAT's Ash RGB, and GDACS's eruptions in a window (key Shift+A; off by default) |
radar, smoke, tsunami | RainViewer radar, NOAA HMS smoke, NOAA tsunami alerts (keys R Y Shift+T) |
imagery | live GOES and MTG pictures by day, daily yesterday’s VIIRS when zoomed in, painted neither; with live or daily, the newest night’s lights when zoomed in (key Shift+P; the older truecolor=0/1 still works) |
severe | Severe weather: NWS warning polygons and the SPC day-1 outlook (US), MeteoAlarm's warnings (Europe) (key X) |
imerg | With the radar, satellite rain where there’s no radar: EUMETSAT H SAF (MTG) over Europe and Africa, NASA IMERG elsewhere (R’s middle step turns it off) |
relief | terrain lit by the real Sun, from NOAA ETOPO 2022 (key Shift+E); 0 shows NASA's fixed shaded relief |
reliefscale | terrain relief strength, 0.1–5 (default 1) |
isslive | NASA ISS telemetry panel: track (while tracking the ISS), 1 (always) or 0 (key Shift+L) |
isscam | 1 opens the camera in the ISS telemetry: the station from 120 m above, its solar arrays posed from the live telemetry, and the Earth below (the wheel zooms it, 30–120°) |
firehours | show fires detected within this many hours, 1–24 (default 12) |
launches | 0 hides launch mode (key U) |
bodies, bodyscale | Sun and Moon on/off; enlarge their discs (1 = true size) |
fps | 1 shows the frame-rate display (key ~) |
feeds | 1 shows the data-feeds dashboard: each source's last update and next check (key Shift+U) |
cloudsrc, satsrc | folders holding each latest.json |
