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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 Friday, 23 January 2026 · astronomical night 19:01 → 06:03 (11.03 h) · Moon 26% (waxing crescent) · weather: ERA5 history

M42M42 18:00–18:30: quality 0.1M42 18:30–19:00: quality 0.3M42 19:00–19:05: quality 0.4M42 19:05–19:30: quality 0.7M42 19:30–21:00: quality 0.8M42 23:00–00:00: quality 0.4M42 00:00–01:00: quality 0.1observe M42 18:40–21:00observe M42 23:00–00:00scheduleM42M4218:0020:0022:0000:0002:0004:0006:00

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
17:25–18:40 — nothing worth pointing at — 1.25
18:40–21:00 M42 2.33 0.69
21:00–23:00 — nothing worth pointing at — 2.0
23:00–00:00 M42 1.0 0.37
00:00–07:45 — nothing worth pointing at — 7.75

Targets

targetastronomyoverallbest windowhighestMoon sep.scheduled h
M42 Great Orion Nebula 88 36 19:05–21:00 (good) 42.9° at 21:45 80.5° 3.33

💡 API
curl -sS "https://devops.majbase.com/rozhen-planner/plan-api?targets=M31,M42,M45,NGC%207000&date=2026-01-23"

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"}.