Tonight in Lisbon
A properly dark night.
Properly dark 21:18–05:46 · 8h 28m
waxing crescent · 5% lit · 8h 28m of moon-free darkness
How we’d play it
A genuinely dark window — galaxies and nebulae are on the menu, and Saturn and Mars are well-placed for the eyepiece. The kind of night we plan a full session around.
Plan a night with us →Worth looking at
- SaturnBest 02:57High in the small hours (around 02:57) — 54° in the south.
- MarsBest 05:46Well-placed in the east — 39° just before dawn (05:46), still rising as the sky brightens.
- JupiterBest 05:46Low in the east, still climbing when the sky brightens at 05:46 — only 15°.
- VenusBest 19:48Low in the southwest — 13° as darkness falls (19:48), then dropping, a bright twilight object.
Twilight stages & sun times +
- Sunset19:48
- Civil twilight ends20:14
- Nautical twilight ends20:46
- Fully dark21:18
- First light05:46
- Nautical twilight (dawn)06:18
- Civil twilight (dawn)06:50
- Sunrise07:17
All times WEST (local). Moon-free windows: 21:18–05:46.
Not tonight?
Darker nights suit galaxies and nebulae. The Moon thins out toward the end of the week.
Coming up
- Orionids meteor showerWed 21 October · Peak night. Halley’s Comet again, ~20/hour.in 6 weeks
- Leonids meteor showerTue 17 November · Peak night. Fast and bright, ~15/hour.in 9 weeks
- Geminids meteor showerMon 14 December · Peak night. The year’s best — up to ~120/hour, bright and slow.in 13 weeks
- Quadrantids meteor showerSun 3 January · Peak night. Sharp peak, up to ~40/hour — brief but rich.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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