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Loading contentThe foundation of a daily-use observing platform, built on the Knowledge Graph and Scientific Data Engine. Meteor-shower parameters and reference data are source-backed and timeless; live, location-aware data is prepared for integration.
What's observable tonight — twilight, Moon & ranked planets, composed & computed.
Phase, illumination, and location-aware moonrise, moonset & position — computed.
Sunrise, sunset & twilight for any location — computed.
Civil, nautical & astronomical twilight explained.
Which naked-eye planets are up tonight — rise, set & visibility, computed.
Guides to the eight major annual showers.
Solar and lunar eclipse types and safety.
What makes comets visible, and notable comets.
What a close approach means — prepared.
How ISS passes work; live tracking prepared.
What causes aurora and the Kp index.
Solar flares and geomagnetic storms.
A month-by-month guide to recurring events.
Recurring annual sky events at a glance.
Peak night of 3–4 January
ZHR ≈ 110
Peak night of 22–23 April
ZHR ≈ 18
Peak night of 5–6 May
ZHR ≈ 50
Peak night of 12–13 August
ZHR ≈ 100
Peak night of 21–22 October
ZHR ≈ 20
Peak night of 17–18 November
ZHR ≈ 15
Peak night of 13–14 December
ZHR ≈ 150
Peak early November
ZHR ≈ 5
Annual parameters from the IMO Meteor Shower Calendar. ZHR is an ideal-condition maximum, not a live count.
Typed provider interfaces are in place for the sources a live sky platform would draw on. All are planned — none is connected, and no live external API is called from these pages.
Planet ephemerides · Moon position · Rise/set
Sunrise/sunset · Moonrise/moonset · Moon phases
Solar flares · CMEs · Geomagnetic storms
Aurora forecast (OVATION) · Kp index · Geomagnetic storm scale (G1–G5)
ISS orbital elements (TLE) · Satellite passes (via propagation)
Asteroid & comet designations and orbits · Close-approach data
Annual meteor shower calendar · Peak dates · ZHR
Astronomy imagery · Near-Earth objects (NeoWs) · General mission data
Solar & lunar eclipse circumstances · Paths of totality
Static knowledge remains the foundation: the Live Sky platform is a set of data clients on top of the Knowledge Graph. Every sky module links to real entities (the Moon, planets, comets, the ISS, the Sun), and every datum is timestamped and source-labelled. Learn to observe with the Observing the Night Sky path.