Las Vegas, Nevada, United States

Tuesday, October 7, 2025

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Meteor shower

Draconids

A few an hour

Best around 7:45 PM

The night7:45 PM – 5:12 AM+1

Very LowExcellent
Radiant climbs to
57°
Under a perfect sky
10/hour
Moonlight
30% lost
Speed
20 km/s

The rate at the top is how many you might really see from a dark spot here, allowing for how high the shower climbs and for moonlight. "Under a perfect sky" is the best case. The bar also counts the forecast cloud at the best time, so a clouded-out night sits at the bottom.

Best in the early evening, unlike most showers, which are best before dawn. Usually quiet, but it has produced storms of thousands an hour, in 1933 and 1946. Comes from comet Giacobini-Zinner.

That morning

Sunrise

6:41 AM

6:41 AM

6:15 AM Blue hour
6:41 AM Sunrise
7:15 AM Golden hour ends

Sunset

6:15 PM

6:15 PM

Too far ahead for a weather forecast. These are the sun's own times - they will not change.

5:40 PM Golden hour
6:15 PM Sunset
6:40 PM Blue hour ends

Moon

Full moon

99% lit

6:30 PM – 8:33 AM

ENE WNW
6:30 PM Moonrise
6:50 PM 4°
1:27 AM Highest, 69°
8:12 AM 4°
8:33 AM Moonset

Between the two 4° marks the Moon is clear of haze and most of what stands on the horizon.

Timetable

  • Morning blue hour 6:15 AM–6:41 AM
  • Sunrise 6:41 AM
  • Morning golden hour 6:41 AM–7:15 AM
  • Morning best color 6:50 AM
  • Moonset 7:17 AM
  • Evening golden hour 5:40 PM–6:15 PM
  • Evening best color 6:14 PM
  • Sunset 6:15 PM
  • Evening blue hour 6:15 PM–6:40 PM
  • Moonrise 6:30 PM
  • Fully dark 7:40 PM–5:16 AM
  • Dark, no Moon Not tonight - the Moon is up

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