Tampa, Florida, United States

Tuesday, August 12, 2025

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Tampa, Florida, United States

Rocket launch

Vulcan VC4S | USSF-106

Launched - good from here

Lifted off 8:56 PM

Very LowExcellent
Look
ENE
Heading away from you
When
8:56 PM
Highest around 9:05 PM
Distance
122 mi
Climbs to
46°
Lighting
Twilight window
Launch site
Space Launch Complex 41
Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA

The sun is far enough down that the ground is dark and still high enough to light the plume: exhaust expanding into near-vacuum turns into a glowing bell visible for hundreds of miles.

That morning

Sunrise

6:58 AM

6:58 AM

6:34 AM Blue hour
6:58 AM Sunrise
7:30 AM Golden hour ends

Sunset

8:10 PM

8:10 PM

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

7:38 PM Golden hour
8:10 PM Sunset
8:35 PM Best color, then blue hour ends

Best color is when the sky has actually looked its best, learned from 7 well-rated past sunsets here.

Meteor shower

Perseids

Best around 5:25 AM

Very LowExcellent
9:40 PM Dark enough
10:23 PM Moonrise
5:29 AM Best 5:25 AM, then too light
Estimate
~26/hour
from a dark spot here, off its peak night
Radiant climbs to
54°
Under a perfect sky
100/hour
Moonlight
64% 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

10:23 PM – 11:17 AM

E W
10:23 PM Moonrise
10:41 PM 4°
4:48 AM Highest, 69°
10:59 AM 4°
11:17 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 6:34 AM–6:58 AM
  • Sunrise 6:58 AM
  • Morning golden hour 6:58 AM–7:30 AM
  • Morning best color 7:15 AM
  • Moonset 10:14 AM
  • Evening golden hour 7:38 PM–8:10 PM
  • Sunset 8:10 PM
  • Evening blue hour 8:10 PM–8:35 PM
  • Evening best color 8:33 PM
  • Fully dark 9:35 PM–5:35 AM
  • Dark, no Moon 9:35 PM–10:25 PM
  • Moonrise 10:23 PM

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Sun 14 Jan 2029 12:22 PM Total lunar eclipse Totality lasts 101 minutes
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Fri 14 Nov 2031 5:34 PM Total lunar eclipse 68% of it above your horizon
Fri 7 Oct 2033 6:55 AM Partial lunar eclipse 1% of the Moon in shadow
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Every celestial event, and where else to see it