Tonight in Berlin
A properly dark night.
Properly dark 21:26–04:38 · 7h 11m
waxing crescent · 5% lit · 7h 11m of moon-free darkness
How we’d play it
A genuinely dark window — galaxies and nebulae are on the menu, and Saturn and Mars are well-placed for the eyepiece. The kind of night we plan a full session around.
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- SaturnBest 02:23Well-placed in the small hours (around 02:23) — 40° in the south.
- MarsBest 04:38Well-placed in the east — 31° just before dawn (04:38), still rising as the sky brightens.
- JupiterBest 04:38Low in the east, still climbing when the sky brightens at 04:38 — only 11°.
Venus is below the horizon whenever the sky is dark.
Twilight stages & sun times +
- Sunset19:26
- Civil twilight ends20:00
- Nautical twilight ends20:42
- Fully dark21:26
- First light04:38
- Nautical twilight (dawn)05:22
- Civil twilight (dawn)06:04
- Sunrise06:38
All times CEST (local). Moon-free windows: 21:26–04:38.
Not tonight?
Darker nights suit galaxies and nebulae. The Moon thins out toward the end of the week.
Coming up
- Orionids meteor showerWed 21 October · Peak night. Halley’s Comet again, ~20/hour.in 6 weeks
- Leonids meteor showerTue 17 November · Peak night. Fast and bright, ~15/hour.in 9 weeks
- Geminids meteor showerMon 14 December · Peak night. The year’s best — up to ~120/hour, bright and slow.in 13 weeks
- Quadrantids meteor showerSun 3 January · Peak night. Sharp peak, up to ~40/hour — brief but rich.in 16 weeks
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We bring the telescope, and we read the sky for you — so the night lands on the right hour.
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