Wed 5 August · Bodrum
A part-dark night.
Properly dark 21:53–04:39 · 6h 47m
last quarter · 54% lit · 1h 44m 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 04:39High in the south — 56° just before dawn (04:39), still rising as the sky brightens.rises 22:57sets 11:21highest 04:39 (56°)
- VenusBest 20:13Low in the west — 23° as darkness falls (20:13), then dropping, a bright twilight object.rises 10:06sets 22:09highest 20:13 (23°)
- MarsBest 04:39Low in the east, still climbing when the sky brightens at 04:39 — only 22°.rises 02:36sets 17:16highest 04:39 (22°)
- MercuryBest 06:19Just catchable low before dawn in the east — a tricky one.rises 04:50sets 19:07highest 06:19 (16°)
Jupiter is below the horizon whenever the sky is dark.
Twilight stages & sun times +
- Sunset20:13
- Civil twilight ends20:41
- Nautical twilight ends21:16
- Fully dark21:53
- First light04:39
- Nautical twilight (dawn)05:16
- Civil twilight (dawn)05:51
- Sunrise06:19
All times GMT+3 (local). Moon-free windows: 21:53–23:37.
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 7 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 7 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
We bring the telescope, and we read the sky for you — so the night lands on the right hour.
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