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Astronomy & Aurora Tonight in Shelby, NC

2026-10-07 · times in America/New_York · 35.29°N, 81.54°W

Sunrise, Sunset & Twilight

EventTime
Sunrise7:25 AM
Sunset7:01 PM
Day length11 h 36 min
End of civil twilight7:26 PM
End of nautical twilight7:56 PM
End of astronomical twilight8:25 PM
Night length (sunset to sunrise)12 h 25 min
Fully dark sky tonight9 h 37 min
Astronomical twilight starts (morning)6:02 AM

Moon

Moonrise4:13 AM
Moonset5:24 PM
Illumination9.4%
PhaseWaning Crescent
Sublunar point (Moon overhead)7.43°N, 133.27°W
Sublunar point ground speed1,602 km/h

Moon values are for the moment this page was generated (18:27 UTC). A moonrise or moonset can be missing on a given date.

Planets Tonight

PlanetRiseSetMeridianVisibility
Mercury (mag -0.1)9:30 AM7:57 PM2:44 PMVisible about 0.3 h after dark, highest 5° toward the SW.
Venus (mag -4.6)9:34 AM7:31 PM2:32 PMNot visible tonight: below the horizon (or too low) while the sky is dark.
Mars (mag 1.1)1:51 AM3:56 PM8:53 AMVisible about 4.8 h after dark, highest 60° toward the SE.
Jupiter (mag -1.9)3:08 AM4:40 PM9:54 AMVisible about 3.5 h after dark, highest 46° toward the E.
Saturn (mag 0.2)6:56 PM7:14 AM1:07 AMVisible about 11.5 h after dark, highest 57° toward the S.

Aurora Tonight

Aurora near poles only. Shelby is too far from them to see regular aurora; it would take an extreme geomagnetic storm. See the live aurora forecast.

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