Fri 30 October · Athens
A dark-sky window opens.
Properly dark 18:57–05:20 · 10h 23m
waning gibbous · 73% lit · 2h 7m of moon-free darkness
How we’d play it
A genuinely dark window — galaxies and nebulae are on the menu, and Mars, Saturn and Jupiter are well-placed for the eyepiece. The kind of night we plan a full session around.
Plan a night with us →Worth looking at
- MarsBest 05:20High in the southeast — 58° just before dawn (05:20), still rising as the sky brightens.rises 00:14sets 14:08highest 05:20 (58°)
- SaturnBest 22:25High in the evening (around 22:25) — 53° in the south.rises 16:21sets 04:32highest 22:25 (53°)
- JupiterBest 05:20High in the southeast — 52° just before dawn (05:20), still rising as the sky brightens.rises 00:46sets 14:21highest 05:20 (52°)
Venus is below the horizon whenever the sky is dark.
Twilight stages & sun times +
- Sunset17:28
- Civil twilight ends17:55
- Nautical twilight ends18:26
- Fully dark18:57
- First light05:20
- Nautical twilight (dawn)05:51
- Civil twilight (dawn)06:22
- Sunrise06:49
All times EET (local). Moon-free windows: 18:57–21:04.
Sun, Moon & planet altitude +
Altitude across the night (EET), sunset to sunrise. A target is easy to observe when its curve is high during the shaded dark band. Tap “show planets” to overlay them.
Not tonight?
Darker nights suit galaxies and nebulae. The Moon thins out toward the end of the week.
Coming up
- Leonids meteor showerTue 17 November · Peak night. Fast and bright, ~15/hour.in 18 days
- Geminids meteor showerMon 14 December · Peak night. The year’s best — up to ~120/hour, bright and slow.in 6 weeks
- Quadrantids meteor showerSun 3 January · Peak night. Sharp peak, up to ~40/hour — brief but rich.in 9 weeks
- Annular solar eclipseSat 6 February · Only visible along a narrow track on Earth — check whether it passes near you (never look at the Sun unprotected).in 14 weeks
- Penumbral lunar eclipseSat 20 February · A shadow crosses part of the Moon — visible wherever the Moon is up at the time.in 16 weeks
We bring the telescope, and we read the sky for you — so the night lands on the right hour.
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