Tonight at 20:59
southeast, 85° up — three bright stars in a huge triangle across half the sky
Good chance Clear skies · 1% clouds · city lights wash out faint sights
Cloud forecast from 17:00 city time — refreshed a few times a day
Tip: a 20-minute drive out of the city makes faint sights much easier to see.
Clearest evening ahead: Sun — a good night to come back
Los Angeles, in the United States, enjoys a fairly even balance between summer and winter nights — expect 1.5–2 hours of true astronomical darkness on either side of midnight year-round.
None of the bright naked-eye planets (Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn) rise above 10° tonight from Los Angeles. That's normal — planet visibility cycles roughly every 1–2 months per planet.
Sunset in Los Angeles tonight is at 19:04. Astronomical twilight (when the sky is fully dark) begins later.
Yes — the ISS will rise above 20° altitude at 01:36 local time, passing toward the northeast and peaking 24° above the horizon for 2 minutes.
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