Fri 30 October · Munich

A part-dark night.

Properly dark 18:43–05:11 · 10h 28m

waning gibbous · 73% lit · 1h 27m of moon-free darkness

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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.

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Worth looking at

  • MarsBest 05:11High in the southeast — 52° just before dawn (05:11), still rising as the sky brightens.
  • JupiterBest 05:11High in the southeast — 47° just before dawn (05:11), still rising as the sky brightens.
  • SaturnBest 22:12Well-placed in the evening (around 22:12) — 43° in the south.

Venus is below the horizon whenever the sky is dark.

Twilight stages & sun times +
  • Sunset16:58
  • Civil twilight ends17:30
  • Nautical twilight ends18:07
  • Fully dark18:43
  • First light05:11
  • Nautical twilight (dawn)05:47
  • Civil twilight (dawn)06:24
  • Sunrise06:57

All times CET (local). Moon-free windows: 18:43–20:10.

Not tonight?

Darker nights suit galaxies and nebulae. The Moon thins out toward the end of the week.

  1. Tonight94%
  2. Thu87%
  3. Fri78%
  4. Sat68%
  5. Sun57%
  6. Mon46%
  7. Tue35%

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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