Thu 29 October · Rome
A part-dark night.
Properly dark 18:42–05:05 · 10h 24m
waning gibbous · 83% lit · 45m 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 05:05High in the southeast — 55° just before dawn (05:05), still rising as the sky brightens.rises 23:51sets 14:04highest 05:05 (55°)
- JupiterBest 05:05High in the southeast — 49° just before dawn (05:05), still rising as the sky brightens.rises 00:27sets 14:16highest 05:05 (49°)
- SaturnBest 22:10High in the evening (around 22:10) — 49° in the south.rises 16:09sets 04:22highest 22:10 (49°)
Venus is below the horizon whenever the sky is dark.
Twilight stages & sun times +
- Sunset17:08
- Civil twilight ends17:37
- Nautical twilight ends18:09
- Fully dark18:42
- First light05:05
- Nautical twilight (dawn)05:38
- Civil twilight (dawn)06:11
- Sunrise06:39
All times CET (local). Moon-free windows: 18:42–19:26.
Sun, Moon & planet altitude +
Altitude across the night (CET), 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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