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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 Thursday, 26 March 2026 · astronomical night 20:14 → 04:38 (8.41 h) · Moon 63% (waxing gibbous) · weather: ERA5 history

M42M42 19:45–20:00: quality 0.1M42 20:00–20:15: quality 0.2M42 20:15–20:55: quality 0.4M42 20:55–21:25: quality 0.3M42 21:25–21:30: quality 0.2observe M42 20:15–21:10scheduleM4220:0022:0000:0002:0004:0006:00

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
18:35–20:15 — nothing worth pointing at — 1.67
20:15–21:10 M42 0.92 0.39
21:10–06:15 — nothing worth pointing at — 9.08

Targets

targetastronomyoverallbest windowhighestMoon sep.scheduled h
M42 Great Orion Nebula 7 6 20:15–21:10 (marginal) 42.9° at 17:40 42.2° 0.92

💡 API
curl -sS "https://devops.majbase.com/rozhen-planner/plan-api?targets=M31,M42,M45,NGC%207000&date=2026-03-26"

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"}.