No cloud overhead to catch the color, so it shows on the horizon and any distant clouds as the sun comes up - learned from 115 rated clear past sunrises across every place Sky Time tracks.
Satellite
Tiangong space station
Modest pass, NW to N
Rises
8:05 PM
Very LowExcellent
Look
NW
Rising, then up to NNW
When
8:05 PM
until 8:07 PM
Visible for
2m 10s
Highest
13° NNW
Ends
Sets N
Steady, silent, and about as fast as a high aircraft.
Full moon, up now
Full Hunter's Moon
Rises 6:16 PM in the ENE
5:41 PM –
6:54 AM
The full moon after the Harvest Moon. Hunters tracked game across the fields the harvest had cleared, by its light.
EWNW
5:41 PMMoonrise
5:59 PM4°
12:15 AMHighest, 72°
6:35 AM4°
6:54 AMMoonset
Current local time: 12:22 AM
Between the two 4° marks the Moon is clear of haze and most of what stands on the horizon.
Rises
6:16 PM in the ENE
Exactly full
12:18 AM
Distance
229,218 mi
The disc is biggest and most orange in the first half hour above the horizon, and moonrise here is worked out to the minute for a flat horizon.
Event
Stargazing
Best around
8:30 PM tonight
Very LowExcellent
8:05 PMDark enough
8:30 PMBest
6:14 AMToo light
Current local time: 12:22 AM
At its best
Very Low
held back by sky glow
Darkness
Fully dark
100% of a perfect sky
Clouds
Partly cloudy
69% of a perfect sky
Rain
No rain on the radar
100% of a perfect sky
Moon
Moon 100% lit, up
61% of a perfect sky
Sky glow
Bright city sky
30% of a perfect sky
These are at the best time, from the forecast. The bar is the best half hour of the dark: how dark the sky is, the cloud, rain, the Moon's glare and
the light pollution here, each taking its share off a perfect night.
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