Observer
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Usable dark hours by RA / Dec
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Altitude threshold
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Falloff
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Milky way
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Constellations
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Objects
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Data · OpenNGC (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Sharpless, Barnard, van den Bergh, Lynds and Arp via VizieR, names from SIMBAD, both CDS Strasbourg · list membership from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0) · time zones from OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL) via timezone-boundary-builder · full attribution and licences
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Planets at local midnight
Planet RA Dec Usable
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cos H = (sin alt − sin φ sin δ) / (cos φ cos δ) · usable = overlap of [RA − H, RA + H] with the astronomical dark window (Sun below −18°), in local sidereal time