Los Angeles, California, United States

Friday, January 2, 2026

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Meteor shower

Quadrantids

Around 41 an hour

Best around 5:25 AM

Radiant climbs to
55°
Under a perfect sky
110/hour
Moonlight
47% lost
Speed
41 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. Clouds are not counted here: check the sunset page for those.

Its peak is short: only a few hours either side of it are worth watching.

Rocket launch

Falcon 9 Block 5 | CSG-3

Launched - fair from here

Lifted off 6:09 PM

Very LowExcellent
Look
WNW
Crossing your sky
When
6:09 PM
Highest around 6:18 PM
Distance
141 mi
Climbs to
41°
Lighting
Dark sky
Launch site
Space Launch Complex 4E
Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Landing
6:17 PM
Land - Landing Zone 4, back toward WNW

A bright climbing star and a flame. The vehicle is in shadow itself, so there is no lit plume behind it.

That morning

Sunrise

6:58 AM

6:58 AM

6:31 AM Blue hour
6:58 AM Sunrise
7:36 AM Golden hour ends

Full moon

Full Wolf Moon

Rises 4:10 PM in the NE

4:10 PM – 7:31 AM

Named for the wolves heard howling on long midwinter nights.

ENE WNW
4:10 PM Moonrise
4:34 PM 4°
11:53 PM Highest, 83°
7:08 AM 4°
7:31 AM Moonset

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

Rises
4:10 PM in the NE
Exactly full
2:03 AM
Distance
225,151 mi

The disc is biggest and most orange in the first half hour above the horizon, and moonrise here is worked out to the minute for a flat horizon.

Sunset

4:55 PM

4:55 PM

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

4:17 PM Golden hour
4:55 PM Sunset
5:23 PM Blue hour ends

Timetable

  • Morning blue hour 6:31 AM–6:58 AM
  • Moonset 6:32 AM
  • Sunrise 6:58 AM
  • Morning golden hour 6:58 AM–7:36 AM
  • Morning best color 7:04 AM
  • Moonrise 4:11 PM
  • Evening golden hour 4:17 PM–4:55 PM
  • Sunset 4:55 PM
  • Evening blue hour 4:55 PM–5:23 PM
  • Evening best color 5:00 PM
  • Fully dark 6:24 PM–5:29 AM
  • Dark, no Moon Not tonight - the Moon is up

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