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.rises 23:14sets 14:22highest 04:57 (49°)
- JupiterBest 04:57Well-placed in the southeast — 44° just before dawn (04:57), still rising as the sky brightens.rises 23:55sets 14:29highest 04:57 (44°)
- SaturnBest 22:00Well-placed in the evening (around 22:00) — 40° in the south.rises 15:57sets 04:15highest 22:00 (40°)
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.
Sun, Moon & planet altitude +
Altitude across the night (GMT), 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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