Reykjavik, Iceland

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Reykjavik, Iceland

Meteor shower

Ursids

Best around 8:59 AM

Very LowExcellent
4:59 PM Dark enough
8:23 AM Moonrise
8:59 AM Best
9:52 AM Too light
Estimate
~7/hour
from a dark spot here
Radiant climbs to
78°
Under a perfect sky
10/hour
Moonlight
No interference
Speed
33 km/s

Where they come from: Comet Tuttle (8P/Tuttle)

Dust from Comet Tuttle, which comes round every 13.6 years. A quiet shower most years, around the winter solstice, with now and then a burst of much higher rates.

The estimate 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, as does rain on the radar now.

From most of the Northern Hemisphere it never sets, so you can watch it all night.

Equinox or solstice

Winter solstice

The moment itself, 8:09 PM

Sunrise
11:21 AM, SSE (156°)
Sunset
3:29 PM, SSW (204°)
Daylight
4h 08m

That morning

Sunrise

11:21 AM

11:21 AM

Clears the hills at 11:51 AM, 30 min after sunrise

Sunset

3:29 PM

3:29 PM

Behind the hills at 3:15 PM, 14 min before sunset

Too far ahead for a weather forecast. These are the sunrise and sunset times - they will not change.

Event

First day of Hanukkah

First day of Hanukkah in Reykjavik - sunset at 3:29 PM

Evening from 3:29 PM

Sunset and evening sky: not known yet

Sunset
3:29 PM
Sun toward SSW
Cloud this evening
Not known yet
Rain chance
Not known yet
This evening
Moon
14% lit
Rises 8:29 AM (after midnight)
Where the Sun is
SSW, 1° up
at 2:59 PM

Hanukkah, the Festival of Lights, lasts eight days from the 25th of Kislev in the Hebrew calendar - in late November or December. It remembers the rededication of the Temple in Jerusalem after the Maccabees' revolt in the second century BCE, when, the story goes, one day's oil kept the menorah burning for eight.

Like every Jewish day, it begins at sundown: the first candle is lit on the evening before the first day, and one more each night after, lit from the shammash, the helper candle set apart from the rest.

Moon

Waning crescent

15% lit

6:42 AM – 1:22 PM

SSE SSW
6:42 AM Moonrise
7:42 AM 4°
10:03 AM Highest, 8°
12:22 PM 4°
1:22 PM Moonset

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

Timetable

  • Moonrise 6:43 AM
  • Morning blue hour 10:02 AM–11:21 AM
  • Sunrise 11:21 AM
  • Moonset 1:22 PM
  • Sunset 3:29 PM
  • Evening blue hour 3:29 PM–4:48 PM
  • Fully dark 6:57 PM–7:54 AM
  • Dark, no Moon 6:57 PM–7:54 AM

Upcoming celestial events for Reykjavik, Iceland

Total lunar eclipse 90% of it above your horizon
Mon 18 Oct 2032 7:03 PM Partial solar eclipse 42.6% of the Sun covered
Wed 30 Mar 2033 7:12 PM Partial lunar eclipse 1% of the Moon in shadow
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Mon 11 Feb 2036 10:12 PM Total lunar eclipse Totality lasts 95 minutes
Wed 6 Aug 2036 2:51 AM Partial solar eclipse 62.8% of the Sun covered
Thu 21 Aug 2036 5:42 PM Partial solar eclipse 14.7% of the Sun covered
Thu 9 Apr 2043 8:20 PM

Every celestial event, and where else to see it