August 12, 2026
The sky over Colombo
the Perseids meteor shower peak
Moon
New moon
0% illuminated
Moonrise / moonset
5:02 AM – 5:48 PM
Also up that night
- M7 — Ptolemy´s Cluster47° up
- M6 — Butterfly Cluster48° up
- M24 — Milky Way patch64° up
- M25 — 64° up
- M39 — 35° up
- M22 — 59° up
Around 21:00 local time the moon was below the horizon over Colombo — it was a new moon that night, just not up yet. Local time here is estimated from Colombo'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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