Fri 7 August · Berlin
A part-dark night.
Properly dark 23:33–02:51 · 3h 18m
waning crescent · 32% lit · 12m of moon-free darkness
How we’d play it
A part-dark night: we start on the Moon and Saturn while the Moon is up, then turn to deep-sky once it's down and the sky is properly black.
Plan a night with us →Worth looking at
- SaturnBest 02:51Well-placed in the southeast — 34° just before dawn (02:51), still rising as the sky brightens.rises 22:37sets 11:18highest 02:51 (34°)
- MercuryBest 05:37Just catchable low before dawn in the east — a tricky one.rises 03:58sets 19:59highest 05:37 (13°)
- VenusBest 20:47Low in the west — 11° as darkness falls (20:47), then dropping, a bright twilight object.rises 10:06sets 21:59highest 20:47 (11°)
- MarsBest 02:51Low in the northeast, still climbing when the sky brightens at 02:51 — only 10°.rises 01:26sets 18:13highest 02:51 (10°)
Jupiter is below the horizon whenever the sky is dark.
Twilight stages & sun times +
- Sunset20:47
- Civil twilight ends21:28
- Nautical twilight ends22:21
- Fully dark23:33
- First light02:51
- Nautical twilight (dawn)04:03
- Civil twilight (dawn)04:56
- Sunrise05:37
All times CEST (local). Moon-free windows: 23:33–23:45.
Sun, Moon & planet altitude +
Altitude across the night (CEST), 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
- Perseids meteor showerWed 12 August · Peak night. The summer favourite — up to ~100/hour, warm nights.in 5 days
- Total solar eclipseWed 12 August · Only visible along a narrow track on Earth — check whether it passes near you (never look at the Sun unprotected).in 5 days
- Partial lunar eclipseFri 28 August · A shadow crosses part of the Moon — visible wherever the Moon is up at the time.in 20 days
- Orionids meteor showerWed 21 October · Peak night. Halley’s Comet again, ~20/hour.in 11 weeks
- Leonids meteor showerTue 17 November · Peak night. Fast and bright, ~15/hour.in 15 weeks
We bring the telescope, and we read the sky for you — so the night lands on the right hour.
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