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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, 24 March 2027 · astronomical night 20:11 → 04:42 (8.53 h) · Moon 92% (waning gibbous) · weather: none — the schedule is astronomy only; overall conditions unknown

M42M42 19:10–19:40: quality 0.1M42 19:40–20:15: quality 0.4M42 20:15–20:45: quality 0.8M42 20:45–21:00: quality 0.7M42 21:00–21:15: quality 0.6M42 21:15–21:25: quality 0.5M42 21:25–21:40: quality 0.4observe M42 19:40–21:40scheduleM4220:0022:0000:0002:0004:0006:00

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
18:35–19:40 — nothing worth pointing at — 1.08
19:40–21:40 M42 2.0 0.58
21:40–06:20 — nothing worth pointing at — 8.67

Targets

targetastronomyoverallbest windowhighestMoon sep.scheduled h
M42 Great Orion Nebula 25 unknown 20:15–21:10 (good) 42.9° at 17:50 123.4° 2.0

💡 API
curl -sS "https://devops.majbase.com/rozhen-planner/plan-api?targets=M31,M42,M45,NGC%207000&date=2027-03-24"

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"}.