A part-dark night.

Properly dark 21:54–04:38 · 6h 44m

waning gibbous · 65% lit · 1h 11m of moon-free darkness

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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.

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Worth looking at

SaturnBest 04:38High in the south — 55° just before dawn (04:38), still rising as the sky brightens.rises 23:01sets 11:25highest 04:38 (55°)
VenusBest 20:14Low in the west — 23° as darkness falls (20:14), then dropping, a bright twilight object.rises 10:05sets 22:11highest 20:14 (23°)
MarsBest 04:38Low in the east, still climbing when the sky brightens at 04:38 — only 22°.rises 02:37sets 17:16highest 04:38 (22°)
MercuryBest 06:18Just catchable low before dawn in the east — a tricky one.rises 04:48sets 19:05highest 06:18 (16°)

Jupiter is below the horizon whenever the sky is dark.

Twilight stages & sun times +

Sunset20:14
Civil twilight ends20:42
Nautical twilight ends21:17
Fully dark21:54
First light04:38
Nautical twilight (dawn)05:15
Civil twilight (dawn)05:50
Sunrise06:18

All times GMT+3 (local). Moon-free windows: 21:54–23:05.

Sun, Moon & planet altitude +

Altitude across the night (GMT+3), 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 8 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 8 days
Partial lunar eclipseFri 28 August · A shadow crosses part of the Moon — visible wherever the Moon is up at the time.in 3 weeks
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

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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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