Sat 31 October · Bodrum
A dark-sky window opens.
Properly dark 19:41–06:06 · 10h 25m
waning gibbous · 63% lit · 3h 23m of moon-free darkness
How we’d play it
A genuinely dark window — galaxies and nebulae are on the menu, and Mars, Saturn and Jupiter are well-placed for the eyepiece. The kind of night we plan a full session around.
Plan a night with us →Worth looking at
- MarsBest 06:06High in the southeast — 59° just before dawn (06:06), still rising as the sky brightens.
- SaturnBest 23:09High in the evening (around 23:09) — 54° in the south.
- JupiterBest 06:06High in the southeast — 53° just before dawn (06:06), still rising as the sky brightens.
- VenusBest 07:34Low in the southeast, still climbing when the sky brightens at 07:34 — only 9°, a bright twilight object.
Twilight stages & sun times +
- Sunset18:14
- Civil twilight ends18:40
- Nautical twilight ends19:11
- Fully dark19:41
- First light06:06
- Nautical twilight (dawn)06:36
- Civil twilight (dawn)07:07
- Sunrise07:34
All times GMT+3 (local). Moon-free windows: 19:41–23:05.
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 17 days
- Geminids meteor showerMon 14 December · Peak night. The year’s best — up to ~120/hour, bright and slow.in 6 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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