Tonight in London
A bright-moon night.
Properly dark 18:33–04:55 · 10h 22m
waning gibbous · 91% lit · No moon-free darkness — the Moon is up all night
How we’d play it
With the Moon this bright, we point at the Moon itself, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn — crisp, high-contrast targets that shine through the moonlight. Faint galaxies can wait for a darker night.
Plan a night with us →Worth looking at
- MarsBest 04:55High in the southeast — 49° just before dawn (04:55), still rising as the sky brightens.
- JupiterBest 04:55Well-placed in the southeast — 43° just before dawn (04:55), still rising as the sky brightens.
- SaturnBest 22:13Well-placed around the middle of the night (around 22:13) — 40° in the south.
Venus is below the horizon whenever the sky is dark.
Twilight stages & sun times +
- Sunset16:40
- Civil twilight ends17:15
- Nautical twilight ends17:54
- Fully dark18:33
- First light04:55
- Nautical twilight (dawn)05:34
- Civil twilight (dawn)06:13
- Sunrise06:48
All times GMT (local). Moon-free windows: none tonight.
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 20 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 10 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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