Stars Tonight in Georgetown, Ascension, Saint Helena
True darkness in Georgetown, Ascension, Saint Helena runs from about 8:07 PM GMT to 5:16 AM GMT. The Moon is 🌘 waning crescent, 0% lit.
Brightest stars after dark
Position at 9 pm local time, calculated for -7.93°, -14.41°.
- Altair (Aquila): look W, low near the horizon (29° up)
- Fomalhaut (Piscis Austrinus): look SW, high overhead (65° up)
- Deneb (Cygnus): look NW, low near the horizon (23° up)
Making the most of the night sky from Georgetown, Ascension, Saint Helena
Stars do not move relative to each other, but the whole sky turns as Earth rotates and shifts through the year as Earth orbits the Sun. That is why the brightest stars listed here change from month to month, and why a star that is overhead at 9 pm in winter is gone by summer. The positions above are worked out from your latitude and the time, so they hold for Georgetown, Ascension, Saint Helena specifically.
Give your eyes 20 minutes. Dark adaptation takes about that long, and a single glance at a phone screen resets it. Use a red light if you need to read a chart. Away from streetlights and with no Moon, you can see several thousand stars; under city lights, a few hundred.
To put names to what you see, open the interactive star map or the guide to all 88 constellations. For planets, meteors and the Milky Way tonight, see the Sky Tonight hub, and for the Moon's schedule here, the Moon page for Georgetown, Ascension, Saint Helena.
Questions
When is it fully dark in Georgetown, Ascension, Saint Helena tonight?
Astronomical darkness, when the Sun is more than 18° below the horizon, begins at about 8:07 PM GMT and ends at about 5:16 AM GMT in Georgetown, Ascension, Saint Helena. That is the best window for faint stars and the Milky Way.
What phase is the Moon over Georgetown, Ascension, Saint Helena tonight?
The Moon is waning crescent, about 0% illuminated. A bright Moon washes out faint stars, so the darkest star-gazing happens around new Moon.
What are the brightest stars to look for from Georgetown, Ascension, Saint Helena?
Around 9 pm local time the brightest well-placed stars include Altair (W, low), Fomalhaut (SW, high), Deneb (NW, low).