Chincoteague, Virginia, USA

Tuesday, August 12, 2025

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Chincoteague, Virginia, USA

Rocket launch

Terrier Imp Malemute | Rocksat-X

Launched - fair from here

Lifted off 6:00 AM

Very LowExcellent
Look
SW
Crossing your sky
When
6:00 AM
Highest around 6:09 AM
Distance
9 mi
Climbs to
86°
Lighting
Sky still bright
Launch site
Wallops Flight Facility, Wallops Island, Virginia
Mission
Edu
Suborbital, planned or reached apogee about 160 km. From GCAT (2025-S37).

The plume will be lit, but the sky behind it is still bright enough to wash it out. Twenty minutes later would be the shot.

That morning

Sunrise

6:14 AM

6:14 AM

5:46 AM Blue hour
6:14 AM Sunrise
6:50 AM Golden hour ends

Sunset

7:58 PM

7:58 PM

Too far ahead for a weather forecast. These are the sun's own times - they will not change.

7:22 PM Golden hour
7:58 PM Sunset
8:26 PM Blue hour ends

Meteor shower

Perseids

Best around 3:58 AM

Very LowExcellent
9:28 PM Dark enough
9:48 PM Moonrise
3:58 AM Best
4:45 AM Too light
Estimate
~27/hour
from a dark spot here, off its peak night
Radiant climbs to
56°
Under a perfect sky
100/hour
Moonlight
65% lost
Speed
59 km/s

The estimate is how many you might really see from a dark spot here, allowing for how high the shower climbs and for moonlight. "Under a perfect sky" is the best case. The bar also counts the forecast cloud at the best time, so a clouded-out night sits at the bottom, as does rain on the radar now.

The most dependable shower of the year, on warm summer nights in the north.

Moon

Waning gibbous

87% lit

9:48 PM – 10:57 AM

E W
9:48 PM Moonrise
10:09 PM 4°
4:20 AM Highest, 59°
10:36 AM 4°
10:57 AM Moonset

Between the two 4° marks the Moon is clear of haze and most of what stands on the horizon.

Timetable

  • Morning blue hour 5:46 AM–6:14 AM
  • Morning best color 5:59 AM
  • Sunrise 6:14 AM
  • Morning golden hour 6:14 AM–6:50 AM
  • Moonset 9:46 AM
  • Evening golden hour 7:22 PM–7:58 PM
  • Evening best color 7:57 PM
  • Sunset 7:58 PM
  • Evening blue hour 7:58 PM–8:26 PM
  • Fully dark 9:36 PM–4:37 AM
  • Dark, no Moon 9:36 PM–9:56 PM
  • Moonrise 9:49 PM

Upcoming celestial events for Chincoteague, Virginia, USA

Tiangong space station Modest pass, SSW to E, 23 deg up
Fri 23 Oct 2026 6:52 PM Orionids Active, around 7 an hour
Fri 23 Oct 2026 7:43 PM Tiangong space station Brilliant pass, WSW to E, 69 deg up
Sat 24 Oct 2026 7:28 PM Full Hunter's Moon Rises 5:36 PM in the ENE Sun 25 Oct 2026 5:36 PM Halloween Halloween night in Chincoteague - waning gibbous moon Sat 31 Oct 2026 6:00 PM Southern Taurids A few an hour
Wed 4 Nov 2026 6:29 PM Partial lunar eclipse 6% of the Moon in shadow
Tue 11 Jan 2028 11:13 PM Partial solar eclipse 4.3% of the Sun covered
Wed 26 Jan 2028 9:54 AM Partial solar eclipse 37.6% of the Sun covered
Sun 14 Jan 2029 12:46 PM Total lunar eclipse Totality lasts 101 minutes
Mon 25 Jun 2029 11:22 PM Total lunar eclipse 79% of it above your horizon
Thu 20 Dec 2029 5:42 PM Partial solar eclipse 2% of the Sun covered
Fri 14 Nov 2031 4:49 PM Total lunar eclipse 56% of it above your horizon
Fri 7 Oct 2033 6:55 AM Partial lunar eclipse 1% of the Moon in shadow
Wed 27 Sep 2034 10:46 PM Partial lunar eclipse 10% of the Moon in shadow
Sat 18 Aug 2035 9:11 PM Total lunar eclipse Totality lasts 95 minutes
Wed 6 Aug 2036 10:51 PM Partial solar eclipse 60.9% of the Sun covered
Sat 12 Aug 2045 1:28 PM

Every celestial event, and where else to see it