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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, 28 September 2028 · astronomical night 20:39 → 05:43 (9.06 h) · Moon 81% (waxing gibbous) · weather: none — the schedule is astronomy only; overall conditions unknown

M42M42 02:40–02:50: quality 0.4M42 02:50–03:00: quality 0.5M42 03:00–03:20: quality 0.6M42 03:20–03:35: quality 0.7M42 03:35–04:45: quality 0.8M42 04:45–05:45: quality 0.9M42 05:45–06:20: quality 0.4M42 06:20–06:50: quality 0.1observe M42 02:40–06:20scheduleM4220:0022:0000:0002:0004:0006:00

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
19:05–02:40 — nothing worth pointing at — 7.58
02:40–06:20 M42 3.67 0.71
06:20–07:20 — nothing worth pointing at — 1.0

Targets

targetastronomyoverallbest windowhighestMoon sep.scheduled h
M42 Great Orion Nebula 59 unknown 03:10–05:45 (good) 42.9° at 06:25 124.3° 3.67

💡 API
curl -sS "https://devops.majbase.com/rozhen-planner/plan-api?targets=M31,M42,M45,NGC%207000&date=2028-09-28"

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"}.