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- Certified dark sky place
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
Wednesday, April 22, 2026
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Meteor shower
Lyrids
Active, around 11 an hour
Best around 4:38 AM
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.
Usually steady, but now and then it has a short burst of many more.
Rocket launch
Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 17-14
Launched - a long shot from here
Lifted off 8:23 PM
The sun is far enough down that the ground is dark and still high enough to light the plume: exhaust expanding into near-vacuum turns into a glowing bell visible for hundreds of miles.
That morning
Sunrise
5:57 AM
5:57 AM
Sunset
7:20 PM
7:20 PM
Too far ahead for a weather forecast. These are the sun's own times - they will not change.
Milky Way
Milky Way
Washed out by city light
Visible from 1:43 AM
The bright center of the Milky Way: when it is above the horizon with the sky fully dark and the Moon set, brought down for how dark the sky is here (estimated from the towns around by Walker's law) and for cloud where the forecast reaches.
Moon
Waxing crescent
35% lit
10:17 AM – 1:37 AM
Between the two 4° marks the Moon is clear of haze and most of what stands on the horizon.
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