August 12, 2026
The sky over Cape Town
the Perseids meteor shower peak
Moon
New moon
0% illuminated
Moonrise / moonset
6:21 AM – 5:08 PM
Also up that night
- M7 — Ptolemy´s Cluster81° up
- M6 — Butterfly Cluster78° up
- M24 — Milky Way patch74° up
- M25 — 75° up
- M22 — 80° up
- M23 — 72° up
Around 21:00 local time the moon was below the horizon over Cape Town — it was a new moon that night, just not up yet. Local time here is estimated from Cape Town's longitude rather than looked up from a timezone database — within about an hour almost everywhere (see the free generator for the same trade-off spelled out).
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