Fri 30 October · London
A part-dark night.
Properly dark 18:30–04:58 · 10h 29m
waning gibbous · 73% lit · 1h 9m of moon-free darkness
How we’d play it
A part-dark night: we start on the Moon and Mars, Jupiter and Saturn while the Moon is up, then turn to deep-sky once it's down and the sky is properly black.
Plan a night with us →Worth looking at
- MarsBest 04:58High in the southeast — 49° just before dawn (04:58), still rising as the sky brightens.
- JupiterBest 04:58Well-placed in the southeast — 44° just before dawn (04:58), still rising as the sky brightens.
- SaturnBest 21:59Well-placed in the evening (around 21:59) — 40° in the south.
Venus is below the horizon whenever the sky is dark.
Twilight stages & sun times +
- Sunset16:37
- Civil twilight ends17:12
- Nautical twilight ends17:51
- Fully dark18:30
- First light04:58
- Nautical twilight (dawn)05:37
- Civil twilight (dawn)06:17
- Sunrise06:52
All times GMT (local). Moon-free windows: 18:30–19:38.
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 18 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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