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.rises 01:02sets 14:54highest 06:04 (58°)
- SaturnBest 23:10High in the evening (around 23:10) — 54° in the south.rises 17:10sets 05:21highest 23:10 (54°)
- JupiterBest 06:04High in the southeast — 52° just before dawn (06:04), still rising as the sky brightens.rises 01:36sets 15:08highest 06:04 (52°)
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.
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
- 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
We bring the telescope, and we read the sky for you — so the night lands on the right hour.
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