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What Can I See in the Sky Tonight in Sint-Truiden, Flanders, Belgium?
New Moon moon at 0%, Venus shines at magnitude -4.4. Calculated for 50.82°, 5.19° (Europe/Brussels).
Visible planets tonight
Venus, Jupiter, Mercury, Saturn, Mars — brightest: Venus at mag -4.4 in Virgo
🔭 Tonight's Sky Report
📍 Sint-Truiden, Flanders, Belgium — Thursday, August 13
Tonight's sky above Sint-Truiden, Flanders, Belgium
Whether tonight is a good night for stargazing from Sint-Truiden, Flanders, Belgium comes down to four real things: the Moon phase, cloud cover, which planets are up, and the current Kp index.
Above Sint-Truiden, Flanders, Belgium tonight (50.82°, 5.19°), expect a new moon moon at 0% illumination. The night gives 4.6 hours of true astronomical darkness. At 50.8°, aurora needs a strong storm — roughly Kp 5.3 or higher — to reach Sint-Truiden, Flanders, Belgium.
Local sky character in Sint-Truiden
Northern mid-latitudes · northern hemisphere · 54 m elevation
- The north celestial pole stands 50.8° above the horizon, so stars within 51° of it never set from here.
- About 88.8% of the whole sky rises above the horizon at some point in the year from this latitude.
- The Milky Way's core in Sagittarius culminates about 10.2° up, staying low, so a clear southern horizon matters.
- At 54 m elevation, roughly 1% of the atmosphere's mass is already below you, which measurably reduces extinction near the horizon.
Sint-Truiden is small enough that local light domes are limited — on a clear, moonless night the Milky Way is realistically within reach.
Astronomy near Sint-Truiden
Real great-circle distances from Sint-Truiden, Flanders, Belgium.
- Eifel National Park Dark Sky Park — dark-sky place, 89 km away, 500 m
- Effelsberg Radio Telescope — observatory, 124 km away, 319 m
Best nights this month in Sint-Truiden
Calculated for these coordinates and today's date — not a fixed list.
- 2026-08-13 — Darkest night of the coming month
The Moon is only 0% illuminated, giving the least lunar interference in the next 30 nights — the best window for the Milky Way and faint deep-sky targets from Sint-Truiden, Flanders, Belgium.
- 2026-08-28 — Full Moon
A 100%-lit Moon washes out faint objects, but lunar terrain along the limb is at its most striking — plan bright targets and planets instead of deep sky.
Sint-Truiden, Flanders, Belgium stargazing questions
- What can I see in the sky tonight from Sint-Truiden, Flanders, Belgium?
- Tonight from Sint-Truiden, Flanders, Belgium expect a new moon Moon at 0% illumination, with these naked-eye planets above the horizon after dark: Venus, Jupiter, Mercury, Saturn, Mars. The night offers about 4.6 hours of true astronomical darkness.
- Where is the nearest dark-sky site to Sint-Truiden, Flanders, Belgium?
- Eifel National Park Dark Sky Park lies about 89 km away; Effelsberg Radio Telescope lies about 124 km away. Distances are real great-circle distances from Sint-Truiden, Flanders, Belgium's coordinates.
- When is the best time to stargaze near Sint-Truiden, Flanders, Belgium?
- Combine two things this page computes: the astronomical darkness window (dusk to dawn), and the Moon. Nights within a few days of New Moon inside that window are the ones worth travelling for; the "best nights" section lists the next ones.
- How dark does it actually get in Sint-Truiden, Flanders, Belgium tonight?
- About 4.6 hours of astronomical darkness (Sun more than 18° below the horizon). That is the real observing window for faint objects; brighter targets are workable from dusk onward.
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