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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 Tuesday, 15 September 2026 · astronomical night 21:05 → 05:27 (8.37 h) · Moon 23% (waxing crescent) · weather: ERA5 history

M42M42 19:30–03:30: unusableM42 03:30–04:05: marginalM42 04:05–05:30: goodM42 05:30–06:05: marginalM42 06:05–06:35: poorM42 06:35–07:05: unusableobserve M42 03:30–06:05scheduleM4220:0022:0000:0002:0004:0006:00

Faded bands: each target's own windows (green good, amber marginal, pink poor). Dark blue: the schedule. Grey columns: twilight.

Schedule

localtargethoursmean quality
19:30–03:30 — nothing worth pointing at — 8.0
03:30–06:05 M42 2.58 0.63
06:05–07:05 — nothing worth pointing at — 1.0

Targets

targetastronomyoverallbest windowhighestMoon sep.scheduled h
M42 Great Orion Nebula 36 36 04:05–05:30 (good) 42.9° at 07:15 134.0° 2.58

💡 API
curl -sS "https://devops.majbase.com/rozhen-planner/plan-api?targets=M31,M42,M45,NGC%207000&date=2026-09-15"

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"}.