Dark sky Columbus, United States
Dark sky, Wed, Feb 24
Dark and moonless
7:50 pm – 11:00 pm
About 3 hours. Then a 79% moon rises in the east.
Sunset 6:18 pmSunrise 7:11 am
moonrise 11:05 pm
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Darkest nights this month: around the new moon on Mar 8.
Milky Way core: next up Mar 3
Each month’s best night: hours with the core up in moonless dark
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Best in June: about 4½ hours on Jun 4, up to 21° high in the south.
How dark the sky is here: city
The darkest sky within 40 mi is a rural sky, 40 mi to the south-east.
The night there ›Full moon in golden hour
Sun, Mar 21: it rises at 7:18 pm, 27 min before sunset, in the east.
- Tue, Apr 208:28 pm · east, 112°
- Wed, May 198:29 pm · south-east, 121°
- Thu, Jun 178:24 pm · south-east, 126°
- Fri, Jun 189:17 pm · south-east, 126°
- Sat, Jul 178:41 pm · south-east, 122°
- Sun, Jul 189:15 pm · south-east, 118°
Night lights: NASA Earth Observatory, Black Marble 2016 · Terrain: Mapzen terrain tiles (SRTM and others)
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