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Rocket launch

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 6-82

Launched - marginal from here

Lifted off 12:25 AM

Very LowExcellent
Look
ENE
Heading away from you
When
12:25 AM
Highest around 12:28 AM
Distance
122 mi
Climbs to
15°
Lighting
Dark sky
Launch site
Space Launch Complex 40
Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
Landing
Sea - A Shortfall of Gravitas
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.

That morning

Sunrise

7:13 AM

7:13 AM

6:48 AM Blue hour
7:13 AM Sunrise
7:48 AM Golden hour ends

Sunset

5:36 PM

5:36 PM

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

5:01 PM Golden hour
5:36 PM Sunset
6:02 PM Blue hour ends

Meteor shower

Geminids

Best around 2:21 AM

Very LowExcellent
7:06 PM Dark enough
2:21 AM Best
4:17 AM Moonrise
5:44 AM Too light
Estimate
~91/hour
from a dark spot here, off its peak night
Radiant climbs to
85°
Under a perfect sky
150/hour
Moonlight
No interference
Speed
35 km/s

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 strongest shower of the year, and you can watch it most of the night.

Event

First day of Hanukkah

First day of Hanukkah in Tampa - sunset at 5:36 PM

Evening from 5:36 PM

Sunset and evening sky: not known yet

Sunset
5:36 PM
Sun toward WSW
Cloud this evening
Not known yet
Rain chance
Not known yet
This evening
Moon
15% lit
Rises 4:26 AM (after midnight)
Where the Sun is
WSW, 5° up
at 5:06 PM

Hanukkah, the Festival of Lights, lasts eight days from the 25th of Kislev in the Hebrew calendar - in late November or December. It remembers the rededication of the Temple in Jerusalem after the Maccabees' revolt in the second century BCE, when, the story goes, one day's oil kept the menorah burning for eight.

Like every Jewish day, it begins at sundown: the first candle is lit on the evening before the first day, and one more each night after, lit from the shammash, the helper candle set apart from the rest.

Moon

Waning crescent

16% lit

3:22 AM – 2:26 PM

ESE WSW
3:22 AM Moonrise
3:41 AM 4°
8:54 AM Highest, 45°
2:07 PM 4°
2:26 PM Moonset

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

Timetable

  • Moonrise 3:23 AM
  • Morning blue hour 6:48 AM–7:13 AM
  • Sunrise 7:13 AM
  • Morning golden hour 7:13 AM–7:48 AM
  • Morning best color 7:31 AM
  • Moonset 2:26 PM
  • Evening golden hour 5:01 PM–5:36 PM
  • Sunset 5:36 PM
  • Evening blue hour 5:36 PM–6:02 PM
  • Evening best color 5:51 PM
  • Fully dark 7:00 PM–5:50 AM
  • Dark, no Moon 7:00 PM–4:20 AM

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