Tonight in London
A dark-sky window opens.
Properly dark 18:19–05:09 · 10h 50m
waning crescent · 7% lit · 10h 50m 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.
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- MarsBest 05:09High in the southeast — 51° just before dawn (05:09), still rising as the sky brightens.
- JupiterBest 05:09High in the southeast — 48° just before dawn (05:09), still rising as the sky brightens.
- SaturnBest 21:28Well-placed in the evening (around 21:28) — 40° in the south.
- VenusBest 07:04Low in the southeast, still climbing when the sky brightens at 07:04 — only 14°, a bright twilight object.
Twilight stages & sun times +
- Sunset16:24
- Civil twilight ends17:00
- Nautical twilight ends17:40
- Fully dark18:19
- First light05:09
- Nautical twilight (dawn)05:48
- Civil twilight (dawn)06:28
- Sunrise07:04
All times GMT (local). Moon-free windows: 18:19–05:08.
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 11 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 8 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 13 weeks
- Penumbral lunar eclipseSat 20 February · A shadow crosses part of the Moon — visible wherever the Moon is up at the time.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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