Aberystwyth Guide Night Sky

What's where?

This chart can with updated with the latest positions by reloading the page every 10 minutes or so.
The center of the circle shows what's directly above you.
The rim of the circler shows what's on the horizon.

Moon Phase

Heavens Above

Heavens Above shows timetables for when various satellites, space stations, space laboratories and shuttles are due to pass over Aberystwyth. It also shows, up to date sky charts, solar system charts, sun & moon rise & set times etc

International Space Station

Naked-Eye visibility of the international space station from Aberystwyth

Auroral Forecast (Northern Lights)

(Britain is at 3o'clock)

Meteor Showers

NASA's Fluxtimator shows the meteor shower rate.
Change the location (if you don't want to use London then enter 52°25'North 4°05'West for Aberystwyth)
Also change the date

Planes

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Aberystwyth Air Space

Cloud Cover

Sat24 also provide an animation of recent IR satellite images of the UK

Street Lamps

Finally, use the night sky simulator to see just how bad the light pollution is in Aberystwyth compared with just a few miles outside

Can't get out?

Get inspired with these virual telescopes:

• Photopic Sky Survey
• Google Sky
• Microsoft's World Wide Telescope
• Hubble Telescope Gallery