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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, 17 August 2026 · astronomical night 22:02 → 04:47 (6.76 h) · Moon 29% (waxing crescent) · weather: ERA5 history

M45M45 01:50–01:55: quality 0.4M45 01:55–02:10: quality 0.5M45 02:10–02:25: quality 0.6M45 02:25–02:35: quality 0.7M45 02:35–03:25: quality 0.8M45 03:25–04:45: quality 0.9M45 04:45–04:50: quality 1.0M45 04:50–05:30: quality 0.5M45 05:30–06:05: quality 0.2observe M45 01:50–05:30scheduleM4522:0000:0002:0004:0006:00

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
20:15–01:50 — nothing worth pointing at — 5.58
01:50–05:30 M45 3.67 0.74
05:30–06:35 — nothing worth pointing at — 1.08

Targets

targetastronomyoverallbest windowhighestMoon sep.scheduled h
M45 Seven Sisters 67 67 02:15–04:50 (good) 72.5° at 07:25 150.7° 3.67

💡 API
curl -sS "https://devops.majbase.com/rozhen-planner/plan-api?targets=M31,M42,M45,NGC%207000&date=2026-08-17"

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"}.