Thu 29 October · London
A bright-moon night.
Properly dark 18:31–04:57 · 10h 26m
waning gibbous · 83% 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 04:57High in the southeast — 49° just before dawn (04:57), still rising as the sky brightens.
- JupiterBest 04:57Well-placed in the southeast — 44° just before dawn (04:57), still rising as the sky brightens.
- SaturnBest 22:00Well-placed in the evening (around 22:00) — 40° in the south.
Venus is below the horizon whenever the sky is dark.
Twilight stages & sun times +
- Sunset16:39
- Civil twilight ends17:13
- Nautical twilight ends17:53
- Fully dark18:31
- First light04:57
- Nautical twilight (dawn)05:36
- Civil twilight (dawn)06:15
- Sunrise06:50
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 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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