Thu 29 October · Bodrum
A part-dark night.
Properly dark 19:43–06:04 · 10h 21m
waning gibbous · 83% lit · 1h of moon-free darkness
How we’d play it
A part-dark night: we start on the Moon and Mars, Saturn and Jupiter 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
- MarsBest 06:04High in the southeast — 58° just before dawn (06:04), still rising as the sky brightens.
- SaturnBest 23:10High in the evening (around 23:10) — 54° in the south.
- JupiterBest 06:04High in the southeast — 52° just before dawn (06:04), still rising as the sky brightens.
Venus is below the horizon whenever the sky is dark.
Twilight stages & sun times +
- Sunset18:16
- Civil twilight ends18:43
- Nautical twilight ends19:13
- Fully dark19:43
- First light06:04
- Nautical twilight (dawn)06:34
- Civil twilight (dawn)07:05
- Sunrise07:32
All times GMT+3 (local). Moon-free windows: 19:43–20:43.
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 19 days
- Geminids meteor showerMon 14 December · Peak night. The year’s best — up to ~120/hour, bright and slow.in 7 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
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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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