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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 Wednesday, 16 December 2026 · astronomical night 18:31 → 06:01 (11.5 h) · Moon 47% (waxing crescent) · weather: none — the schedule is astronomy only; overall conditions unknown

M42M42 20:30–20:50: quality 0.4M42 20:50–21:05: quality 0.5M42 21:05–21:25: quality 0.6M42 21:25–22:20: quality 0.7M42 22:20–23:55: quality 0.8M42 23:55–02:00: quality 0.9M42 02:00–03:10: quality 0.8M42 03:10–03:25: quality 0.7M42 03:25–03:40: quality 0.6M42 03:40–04:00: quality 0.5M42 04:00–04:05: quality 0.4observe M42 20:30–04:05scheduleM4218:0020:0022:0000:0002:0004:0006:00

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
16:50–20:30 — nothing worth pointing at — 3.67
20:30–04:05 M42 7.58 0.75
04:05–07:45 — nothing worth pointing at — 3.67

Targets

targetastronomyoverallbest windowhighestMoon sep.scheduled h
M42 Great Orion Nebula 89 unknown 21:15–03:35 (good) 42.9° at 00:15 92.6° 7.58

💡 API
curl -sS "https://devops.majbase.com/rozhen-planner/plan-api?targets=M31,M42,M45,NGC%207000&date=2026-12-16"

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"}.