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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 Monday, 16 March 2026 · astronomical night 20:01 → 04:57 (8.93 h) · Moon 5% (waning crescent) · weather: ERA5 history

M31M42M42 22:00–22:10: quality 0.2M45M45 22:00–22:10: quality 0.2NGC 7000NGC 7000 02:50–02:55: quality 0.1NGC 7000 02:55–03:00: quality 0.2NGC 7000 03:00–03:20: quality 0.4NGC 7000 03:20–03:40: quality 0.5NGC 7000 03:40–04:00: quality 0.6NGC 7000 04:00–05:00: quality 0.8observe NGC 7000 03:00–04:00V1057 CygV1057 Cyg 02:50–02:55: quality 0.1V1057 Cyg 02:55–03:00: quality 0.2V1057 Cyg 03:00–03:20: quality 0.4V1057 Cyg 03:20–03:40: quality 0.5V1057 Cyg 03:40–04:00: quality 0.6V1057 Cyg 04:00–05:00: quality 0.8observe V1057 Cyg 04:00–05:00M33scheduleNGC 7000V1057 Cyg20:0022:0000:0002:0004:0006:00

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
18:25–03:00 — nothing worth pointing at — 8.58
03:00–04:00 NGC 7000 1.0 0.5
04:00–05:00 V1057 Cyg 1.0 0.79
05:00–06:30 — nothing worth pointing at — 1.5

Targets

targetastronomyoverallbest windowhighestMoon sep.scheduled h
M31 Andromeda Galaxy 3 0 — 89.7° at 13:30 64.5° 0.0
M42 Great Orion Nebula 38 1 — 42.9° at 18:20 110.0° 0.0
M45 Seven Sisters 42 1 — 72.6° at 16:30 90.3° 0.0
NGC 7000 North America Nebula 39 28 03:50–05:00 (good) 87.3° at 09:40 58.9° 1.0
V1057 Cyg 39 28 03:50–05:00 (good) 87.3° at 09:40 58.8° 1.0
M33 Triangulum Pinwheel 4 0 — 79.1° at 14:20 65.6° 0.0

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💡 API
curl -sS "https://devops.majbase.com/rozhen-planner/plan-api?targets=M31,M42,M45,NGC%207000&date=2026-03-16"

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"}.