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South Padre Island, Texas, USA
Thursday, October 8, 2026
Meteor shower
Draconids
A few an hour
Best around 8:37 PM
The night8:37 PM – 5:54 AM+1
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.
Tropical storm
Hurricane Isaias
Outer clouds at most, passing to the east
Was closest at 11:48 PM
That morning
Sunrise
Fair
7:24 AM
Best color is when the sky has actually looked its best, learned from 21 past sunrises rated excellent across every location Sky Time tracks.
Sunset
Fair
7:07 PM
Best color is when the sky has actually looked its best, learned from 19 past sunsets rated excellent across every location Sky Time tracks.
Milky Way
Milky Way
Poor viewing
Visible from 8:24 PM
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
Waning crescent
4% lit
5:27 AM – 5:55 PM
Between the two 4° marks the Moon is clear of haze and most of what stands on the horizon.
How this day turned out
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