Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi Emirate

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Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi Emirate

Meteor shower

Ursids

Best around 4:39 AM

Very LowExcellent
7:09 PM Dark enough
4:14 AM Moonrise
4:39 AM Best
5:32 AM Too light
Estimate
A few/hour
from a dark spot here
Radiant climbs to
31°
Under a perfect sky
10/hour
Moonlight
No interference
Speed
33 km/s

Where they come from: Comet Tuttle (8P/Tuttle)

Dust from Comet Tuttle, which comes round every 13.6 years. A quiet shower most years, around the winter solstice, with now and then a burst of much higher rates.

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.

From most of the Northern Hemisphere it never sets, so you can watch it all night.

That morning

Sunrise

7:01 AM

7:01 AM

Clears the hills at 7:04 AM, 3 min after sunrise

6:36 AM Blue hour
7:01 AM Sunrise
7:35 AM Golden hour ends

Sunset

5:39 PM

5:39 PM

Too far ahead for a weather forecast. These are the sunrise and sunset times - they will not change.

5:05 PM Golden hour
5:39 PM Sunset
6:03 PM Blue hour ends

Event

First day of Hanukkah

First day of Hanukkah in Abu Dhabi - sunset at 5:39 PM

Evening from 5:39 PM

Sunset and evening sky: not known yet

Sunset
5:39 PM
Sun toward WSW
Cloud this evening
Not known yet
Rain chance
Not known yet
This evening
Moon
14% lit
Rises 4:19 AM (after midnight)
Where the Sun is
WSW, 5° up
at 5:09 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

3:08 AM – 2:29 PM

ESE WSW
3:08 AM Moonrise
3:27 AM 4°
8:48 AM Highest, 48°
2:10 PM 4°
2:29 PM Moonset

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

Timetable

  • Moonrise 3:09 AM
  • Morning blue hour 6:36 AM–7:01 AM
  • Sunrise 7:01 AM
  • Morning golden hour 7:01 AM–7:35 AM
  • Morning best color 7:12 AM
  • Moonset 2:30 PM
  • Evening golden hour 5:05 PM–5:39 PM
  • Evening best color 5:21 PM
  • Sunset 5:39 PM
  • Evening blue hour 5:39 PM–6:03 PM
  • Fully dark 7:00 PM–5:41 AM
  • Dark, no Moon 7:00 PM–4:20 AM

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