Mon 9 November · Rome
A properly dark night.
Properly dark 18:30–05:17 · 10h 47m
waxing crescent · 0% lit · 10h 47m 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 05:17High in the southeast — 59° just before dawn (05:17), still rising as the sky brightens.
- JupiterBest 05:17High in the southeast — 56° just before dawn (05:17), still rising as the sky brightens.
- SaturnBest 21:25High in the evening (around 21:25) — 49° in the south.
- VenusBest 06:53Low in the southeast, still climbing when the sky brightens at 06:53 — only 20°, a bright twilight object.
Twilight stages & sun times +
- Sunset16:55
- Civil twilight ends17:24
- Nautical twilight ends17:57
- Fully dark18:30
- First light05:17
- Nautical twilight (dawn)05:50
- Civil twilight (dawn)06:23
- Sunrise06:53
All times CET (local). Moon-free windows: 18:30–05:17.
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 8 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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