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Rozhen Night Plan

Up to ten targets, one night: each gets its good/marginal/poor windows (darkness × altitude × Moon × clouds, as on the single-target page), then the night is handed out five minutes at a time to whichever target is best — with hysteresis, so you get a few solid blocks of at least 30 minutes, not a flicker. Targets that never win a block are listed with the reason.

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Night of Saturday, 20 December 2025 · astronomical night 18:33 → 06:04 (11.51 h) · Moon 1% (new moon) · weather: ERA5 history

M31M31 17:25–18:00: quality 0.1M31 18:00–18:35: quality 0.5M31 18:35–19:00: quality 0.9observe M31 18:00–18:35M42M45M45 17:25–18:00: quality 0.1M45 18:00–18:35: quality 0.4M45 18:35–19:00: quality 0.8NGC 7000NGC 7000 17:25–18:00: quality 0.1NGC 7000 18:00–18:20: quality 0.5NGC 7000 18:20–18:35: quality 0.4NGC 7000 18:35–19:00: quality 0.9V1057 CygV1057 Cyg 17:25–18:00: quality 0.1V1057 Cyg 18:00–18:20: quality 0.5V1057 Cyg 18:20–18:35: quality 0.4V1057 Cyg 18:35–19:00: quality 0.9M33M33 17:25–18:00: quality 0.1M33 18:00–18:35: quality 0.5M33 18:35–19:00: quality 0.9observe M33 18:35–19:00schedule18:0020:0022:0000:0002:0004:0006:00

Each row is the target's quality through the night, white → amber → green for 0 → 0.3 → 0.6 → 1 (the same thresholds as poor / marginal / good). Dark blue: the schedule. Grey columns: twilight.  Download: schedule CSV · targets CSV · JSON

Schedule

localtargethoursmean quality
16:50–18:00 — nothing worth pointing at — 1.17
18:00–18:35 M31 0.58 0.46
18:35–19:00 M33 0.42 0.91
19:00–07:45 — nothing worth pointing at — 12.75

Targets

targetastronomyoverallbest windowhighestMoon sep.scheduled h
M31 Andromeda Galaxy 100 10 18:35–19:00 (good) 89.5° at 19:05 108.4° 0.58
M42 Great Orion Nebula 89 0 — 42.9° at 00:00 143.5° 0.0
M45 Seven Sisters 100 7 18:35–19:00 (good) 72.5° at 22:10 141.1° 0.0
NGC 7000 North America Nebula 81 17 18:35–19:00 (good) 87.2° at 15:25 78.7° 0.0
V1057 Cyg 81 17 18:35–19:00 (good) 87.3° at 15:25 78.6° 0.0
M33 Triangulum Pinwheel 100 10 18:35–19:00 (good) 79.1° at 20:00 114.5° 0.42

Left out


💡 API
curl -sS "https://devops.majbase.com/rozhen-planner/plan-api?targets=M31,M42,M45,NGC%207000&date=2025-12-20"

targets: names or RA Dec, separated by commas, semicolons or newlines, at most ten. The response carries targets[] (score, verdict, best_window, windows, transit, moon_separation), schedule[] (blocks with target, start/end in UTC and local, hours, mean_quality; target: null is idle time), unscheduled[] with a why, forecast_source, warnings[]. Missing targets → 400 {"error", "code": "targets_missing"}; an unreadable date → 400 {"error", "code": "invalid_date"}.