What's in the sky right now?
Saw a moving point of light and can't tell what it was? Find out what crossed the sky over your city in the last hours, and what passes tonight — times, direction and height above the horizon.
Dozens of satellites cross the sky above any city every night. Most are too faint to notice, but a handful are easy naked-eye objects — and almost everything people report as an “unidentified object” turns out to be one of them. We only list a pass as visible when the sky over you is dark AND the spacecraft is still lit by the Sun.
Satellite, aircraft or meteor?
- A steady point of light gliding across the sky over 3–6 minutes, never blinking — a satellite or a space station. The brightest of them is the ISS.
- Blinking red and green lights — an aircraft, helicopter or drone. Satellites never blink.
- A line of evenly spaced lights, one behind the other — a Starlink train — a freshly launched batch that hasn't spread out yet.
- A flash or a streak gone in a second or two — a meteor, or sunlight glinting off a tumbling rocket stage.
The full case-by-case guide is in the “what is that light in the sky” identifier.
City not listed?
The live 3D sky view computes passes for any point on Earth, right in your browser — and shows what is above your horizon right now. Live 3D sky view — everything above you right now · ISS pass times by city
