Monthly sky briefing
October 2025
In October 2025, Mercury was the brightest thing in the evening sky, while Venus led the morning. The full moon fell on 7 Oct. The Orionids peaked around 21 Oct. 12 Starlink trains went up — a well-known source of "string of lights" reports in the days after.
Bright planets
- Venusmorning sky · mag -3.9
- Jupitermorning sky · mag -2.2
- Mercuryevening sky · mag -0.2
- Saturnevening sky · mag +0.7
- Marsevening sky · mag +1.5
Moon
- Full moon7 Oct
- New moon21 Oct
Meteor showers
- Orionidspeak 21 Oct
Rocket launches
12 launches · 12 Starlink
- Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 11-393 Oct
- Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 10-597 Oct
- Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 11-178 Oct
- Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 10-5216 Oct
Reports this monthopen 2025 on the map ↗
246most reported: orb (45), light (27), triangle (12)
Everything above is computed from public data — planet and moon positions, the launch log and the report catalogue. It doesn’t explain any single report; it just shows how much ordinary sky was overhead. What can’t be pinned to a planet, a launch or the moon is the part worth a closer look.