The Sky Tonight from Longyearbyen, Svalbard

This organized Observing Guide is designed to provide key information for planning observing sessions of Solar System Objects from your location. The webpage is divided into three distinct sections, offering an overview of celestial objects visible during specific time intervals: post-sunset observations, nocturnal observations, pre-sunrise observations.

Only objects that will reach an altitude of at least 15° and set/rise at least 15 minutes after/before the Sun are listed. All rise and set times are expressed in local time (Arctic/Longyearbyen) and are approximated with an error that could be as large as few minutes.

Additional useful tools that you can consider when planning your observation sessions are the Online Sky Map and Planetarium and the list of Celestial Objects Visible Now.

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Sorry, no observing guide is available for this location since the Sun is always above the horizon during this time of the year.

Tonight's Conjunctions

In astronomy a conjunction is defined as a close apparent alignment in the sky between two or more celestial bodies. Here we list, the closest conjunctions happening between objects we are currently tracking, in order of increasing separation.

The green arrow indicates that the objects are currently getting closer, while the red arrow means that the objects are increasing their apparent separation.

Object 1	Object 2	Separation
Asteroid 19 Fortuna	Asteroid 20 Massalia	0° 40’ 40”	Sky Map
Jupiter	Uranus	1° 10’ 19”	Sky Map
Asteroid 7 Iris	Asteroid 16 Psyche	1° 23’ 20”	Sky Map
Comet 46P/Wirtanen	Asteroid 14 Irene	1° 25’ 45”	Sky Map
Mars	Neptune	1° 29’ 19”	Sky Map
Comet C/2020 Y2 (ATLAS)	Venus	1° 54’ 20”	Sky Map