Observatory [?]
Observatory selection
- Type the name of a telescope or observatory to find its coordinates;
- or select it on the map;
- or (if your device and browser support geolocation) use "set to my location" or "set to nearest observatory";
- or enter the coordinates manually, pressing
enterto define a new observatory; - If specifying coordinates manually, the time zone must be given as a tz database code.
- or double click on the map to select a location. Its elevation and time zone will be automatically determined. This works for points on land only.
- Observatories from where all your objects reach airmass<1.4 are shown in blue; observatories from where any of your objects cannot be seen are shown in grey.
- The full list of defined observatories can be viewed here
- Weather information is from openweathermap.org
- "show night" shows which parts of Earth are in darkness right now (accurate to about 10 minutes in time, 200km in distance)
- "show light pollution" overlays the estimated sky brightness from the World Atlas of the Night Sky Brightness
| Weather at 8:47:18 AM local time: clear sky | |||
 -0.5°C |  2mph ← |  65% |  1% |
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| local time: 08:47:18 | UT: 06:47:18 | Local sidereal time: 19:36:56 | JD: 2460772.78286 | MJD: 60772.28286 |