August 12, 2026
The sky over Chennai
the Perseids meteor shower peak
Moon
New moon
0% illuminated
Moonrise / moonset
4:51 AM – 5:54 PM
Also up that night
- M7 — Ptolemy´s Cluster41° up
- M6 — Butterfly Cluster42° up
- M24 — Milky Way patch58° up
- M25 — 57° up
- M39 — 41° up
- M22 — 53° up
Around 21:00 local time the moon was below the horizon over Chennai — it was a new moon that night, just not up yet. Local time here is estimated from Chennai'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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