Skies by city / Australia
The night sky over Canberra
Every sky on this page is computed for Canberra'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 Canberra
Moon
Last quarter
52% illuminated
Moonrise / moonset
12:26 AM – 9:55 AM
Up around 21:00 local
- M7 — Ptolemy’s Cluster43° up
- M6 — Butterfly Cluster40° up
- M24 — Milky Way patch41° up
- M2545° up
Computed for October 3, 2026. Local time is estimated from Canberra's longitude rather than a timezone database — accurate to within about an hour almost everywhere.
The sky from 35° south
From Canberra 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 Canberra's horizon permanently.
Geometric horizon, at -35.30°, 149.10°. 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 Canberra does — however far away they are.
- Montevideo0.4° apart
- Cape Town1.4° apart
- Santiago1.9° apart
Nights worth naming
Each one opens the free generator with Canberra 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.