Thu 12 November · Bodrum
A dark-sky window opens.
Properly dark 19:32–06:17 · 10h 45m
waxing crescent · 11% lit · 10h 17m of moon-free darkness
How we’d play it
A genuinely dark window — galaxies and nebulae are on the menu, and Mars, Jupiter and Saturn are well-placed for the eyepiece. The kind of night we plan a full session around.
Plan a night with us →Worth looking at
- MarsBest 06:17High in the southeast — 63° just before dawn (06:17), still rising as the sky brightens.rises 00:41sets 14:20highest 06:17 (63°)
- JupiterBest 06:17High in the southeast — 61° just before dawn (06:17), still rising as the sky brightens.rises 00:49sets 14:17highest 06:17 (61°)
- SaturnBest 22:13High in the evening (around 22:13) — 54° in the south.rises 16:13sets 04:23highest 22:13 (54°)
- MercuryBest 07:46Just catchable low before dawn in the southeast — a tricky one.rises 06:26sets 17:21highest 07:46 (14°)
Venus is below the horizon whenever the sky is dark.
Twilight stages & sun times +
- Sunset18:02
- Civil twilight ends18:30
- Nautical twilight ends19:01
- Fully dark19:32
- First light06:17
- Nautical twilight (dawn)06:47
- Civil twilight (dawn)07:19
- Sunrise07:46
All times GMT+3 (local). Moon-free windows: 20:00–06:17.
Sun, Moon & planet altitude +
Altitude across the night (GMT+3), 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 5 days
- Geminids meteor showerMon 14 December · Peak night. The year’s best — up to ~120/hour, bright and slow.in 5 weeks
- Quadrantids meteor showerSun 3 January · Peak night. Sharp peak, up to ~40/hour — brief but rich.in 7 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 12 weeks
- Penumbral lunar eclipseSat 20 February · A shadow crosses part of the Moon — visible wherever the Moon is up at the time.in 14 weeks
We bring the telescope, and we read the sky for you — so the night lands on the right hour.
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