Skies by city / Australia
The night sky over Adelaide
Every sky on this page is computed for Adelaide's own coordinates — the stars genuinely above the horizon, how high each one stands, and the moon's real phase and position. Not a stock star field with a place name printed on it.
Tonight over Adelaide
Moon
Last quarter
51% illuminated
Moonrise / moonset
12:08 AM – 9:41 AM
Up around 21:00 local
- M7 — Ptolemy’s Cluster40° up
- M6 — Butterfly Cluster36° up
- M24 — Milky Way patch38° up
- M2541° up
Computed for October 3, 2026. Local time is estimated from Adelaide's longitude rather than a timezone database — accurate to within about an hour almost everywhere.
The sky from 35° south
From Adelaide the south celestial pole stands 35° above the horizon — the southern sky has no bright pole star to mark it. Over a year 91% of the celestial sphere clears that horizon; the rest never does, at any hour or season.
- Never sets
- Pavo, Musca, Tucana, Volans, Chamaeleon, Hydrus, and 7 more circle the pole all night, every night of the year.
- Never rises
- Cepheus, Ursa Minor, and Cassiopeia stay below Adelaide's horizon permanently.
Geometric horizon, at -34.93°, 138.60°. A figure counts as circumpolar only when all of it clears the pole distance, and hills, haze and city light will all take more of the sky than this arithmetic does.
Cities that share this sky
Circumpolar stars are fixed by latitude alone, so these see the same constellations never set as Adelaide does — however far away they are.
- Montevideosame latitude
- Cape Town1° apart
- Santiago1.5° apart
- Auckland1.9° apart
Nights worth naming
Each one opens the free generator with Adelaide and that date already set — change either, or keep it and save the picture.
Looking for a different night — a birthday, an anniversary, the day you met? The free generator takes any date and any place, not just the ones listed here. For the moon on its own, which looked the same from everywhere on Earth that night, start from the moon phase calendar.