A bright-moon night.

Properly dark 23:02–03:37 · 4h 34m

waning gibbous · 65% lit · No moon-free darkness — the Moon is up all night

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How we’d play it

With the Moon this bright, we point at the Moon itself, Saturn — crisp, high-contrast targets that shine through the moonlight. Faint galaxies can wait for a darker night.

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Worth looking at

SaturnBest 03:37Well-placed in the southeast — 40° just before dawn (03:37), still rising as the sky brightens.rises 22:59sets 11:34highest 03:37 (40°)
VenusBest 20:45Low in the west — 15° as darkness falls (20:45), then dropping, a bright twilight object.rises 10:07sets 22:14highest 20:45 (15°)
MercuryBest 05:54Just catchable low before dawn in the east — a tricky one.rises 04:18sets 19:42highest 05:54 (14°)
MarsBest 03:37Low in the east, still climbing when the sky brightens at 03:37 — only 14°.rises 02:00sets 18:00highest 03:37 (14°)

Jupiter is below the horizon whenever the sky is dark.

Twilight stages & sun times +

Sunset20:45
Civil twilight ends21:21
Nautical twilight ends22:07
Fully dark23:02
First light03:37
Nautical twilight (dawn)04:32
Civil twilight (dawn)05:18
Sunrise05:54

All times CEST (local). Moon-free windows: none tonight.

Sun, Moon & planet altitude +

Altitude across the night (CEST), 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

Perseids meteor showerWed 12 August · Peak night. The summer favourite — up to ~100/hour, warm nights.in 8 days
Total solar eclipseWed 12 August · Only visible along a narrow track on Earth — check whether it passes near you (never look at the Sun unprotected).in 8 days
Partial lunar eclipseFri 28 August · A shadow crosses part of the Moon — visible wherever the Moon is up at the time.in 3 weeks
Orionids meteor showerWed 21 October · Peak night. Halley’s Comet again, ~20/hour.in 11 weeks
Leonids meteor showerTue 17 November · Peak night. Fast and bright, ~15/hour.in 15 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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