The night sky on your birthday: October 29
October 29 is day 303 of the year. Here is what the sky holds for everyone born on it — and a way to get the real sky above the exact place and hour you were born.
The Sun's constellation on October 29
On your birthday the Sun stands in front of Virgo, even though horoscopes call October 29 Scorpio: the zodiac signs were fixed about 2,000 years ago and the sky has drifted since (precession of the equinoxes). Because the Sun is in Virgo, that constellation is hidden in daylight on your birthday: you see it best around six months later.
Overhead at midnight on October 29
- Northern hemisphere (40°N — New York, Madrid, Beijing): Andromeda, Perseus, Triangulum and Aries; brightest stars high up: Capella (59°), Aldebaran (54°) and Betelgeuse (34°).
- Southern hemisphere (40°S — Melbourne, Buenos Aires region, Wellington): Eridanus, Fornax, Horologium and Phoenix; brightest stars high up: Achernar (71°), Canopus (49°) and Fomalhaut (46°).
Meteor showers around October 29
No major annual meteor shower is active on this date — the sky is all stars and planets.
The Moon on your next birthday
On the evening of October 29, 2026 the Moon will be waning gibbous (81% lit): bright moonlight will wash out the faint stars.
The exact sky of the night you were born
These are averages for a latitude. Your own sky depends on the city, the year and the hour: Firmament draws the real stars, constellations, Moon and planets above your birthplace at your birth time, as a print-ready A3 poster — $4.99, delivered instantly as a PDF.
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