Big Sur, California, USA

Wednesday, August 13, 2025

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Big Sur, California, USA

That morning

Sunrise

6:24 AM

6:24 AM

Clears the mountains at 7:55 AM, 91 min after sunrise

5:56 AM Blue hour
6:24 AM Sunrise
6:59 AM Golden hour ends

Sunset

7:59 PM

7:59 PM

Behind the hills at 7:42 PM, 17 min before sunset

Too far ahead for a weather forecast. These are the sun's own times - they will not change.

7:24 PM Golden hour
7:59 PM Sunset
8:27 PM Blue hour ends

Rocket launch

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 17-4

Launched - marginal from here

Lifted off 10:05 PM

Very LowExcellent
Look
SSE
Heading away from you
When
10:05 PM
Highest around 10:08 PM
Distance
132 mi
Climbs to
14°
Lighting
Dark sky
Launch site
Space Launch Complex 4E
Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Landing
Sea - Of Course I Still Love You
Too far downrange to see

A bright climbing star and a flame. The vehicle is in shadow itself, so there is no lit plume behind it.

Meteor shower

Perseids

Best around 3:59 AM

Very LowExcellent
9:29 PM Dark enough
10:27 PM Moonrise
3:59 AM Best
4:55 AM Too light
Estimate
~29/hour
from a dark spot here, off its peak night
Radiant climbs to
54°
Under a perfect sky
100/hour
Moonlight
56% lost
Speed
59 km/s

Where they come from: Comet Swift-Tuttle (109P/Swift-Tuttle)

Dust from Comet Swift-Tuttle, which takes 133 years to go round the Sun and was last here in 1992. At 26 km across it is the largest object known to pass this close to Earth again and again.

The estimate is how many you might really see from a dark spot here, allowing for how high the shower climbs and for moonlight. "Under a perfect sky" is the best case. The bar also counts the forecast cloud at the best time, so a clouded-out night sits at the bottom, as does rain on the radar now.

The most dependable shower of the year, on warm summer nights in the north.

Moon

Waning gibbous

77% lit

10:27 PM – 12:22 PM

ENE WNW
10:27 PM Moonrise
10:47 PM 4°
5:21 AM Highest, 68°
12:00 PM 4°
12:22 PM Moonset

Between the two 4° marks the Moon is clear of haze and most of what stands on the horizon.

Timetable

  • Morning blue hour 5:56 AM–6:24 AM
  • Sunrise 6:24 AM
  • Morning golden hour 6:24 AM–6:59 AM
  • Morning best color 6:26 AM
  • Moonset 11:10 AM
  • Evening golden hour 7:24 PM–7:59 PM
  • Sunset 7:59 PM
  • Evening blue hour 7:59 PM–8:27 PM
  • Fully dark 9:34 PM–4:50 AM
  • Dark, no Moon 9:34 PM–10:34 PM
  • Moonrise 10:27 PM

Upcoming celestial events for Big Sur, California, USA

Día de Muertos Día de Muertos in Big Sur - sunset at 5:10 PM
Mon 2 Nov 2026 5:10 PM Southern Taurids Still active, a few an hour
Mon 2 Nov 2026 6:39 PM Northern Taurids Still active, a few an hour
Mon 2 Nov 2026 6:39 PM Southern Taurids A few an hour
Wed 4 Nov 2026 6:37 PM Falcon 9 Block 5 | USSF-432 Long shot, look SSE
Fri 6 Nov 2026 4:46 PM Falcon 9 Block 5 | USSF-xxx Marginal, look SSE
Sun 8 Nov 2026 7:17 PM Partial lunar eclipse 6% of the Moon in shadow
Tue 11 Jan 2028 8:13 PM Partial solar eclipse 54.1% of the Sun covered
Sun 14 Jan 2029 8:21 AM Total lunar eclipse 48% of it above your horizon
Mon 25 Jun 2029 8:22 PM Partial solar eclipse 0.9% of the Sun covered
Fri 14 Nov 2031 1:27 PM Partial solar eclipse 34.5% of the Sun covered
Wed 30 Mar 2033 10:20 AM Total lunar eclipse Totality lasts 78 minutes
Fri 7 Oct 2033 3:55 AM Partial solar eclipse 3.5% of the Sun covered
Sun 2 Sep 2035 7:33 PM Total lunar eclipse 45% of it above your horizon
Wed 6 Aug 2036 7:51 PM Partial solar eclipse 7.2% of the Sun covered
Thu 9 Apr 2043 11:41 AM Partial solar eclipse 81.6% of the Sun covered
Tue 23 Aug 2044 7:05 PM Partial solar eclipse 88.4% of the Sun covered
Sat 12 Aug 2045 9:17 AM

Every celestial event, and where else to see it