Los Angeles, California, United States

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Los Angeles, California, United States

Meteor shower

Leonids

Around 11 an hour

Best around 4:48 AM

Radiant climbs to
67°
Under a perfect sky
15/hour
Moonlight
No interference
Speed
71 km/s

The rate at the top 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. Clouds are not counted here: check the sunset page for those.

Usually modest, but about every 33 years it has produced the biggest meteor storms on record.

Rocket launch

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Sentinel-6B

Launched - fair from here

Lifted off 9:21 PM

Very LowExcellent
Look
WNW
Heading your way
When
9:21 PM
Highest around 9:30 PM
Distance
141 mi
Climbs to
41°
Lighting
Dark sky
Launch site
Space Launch Complex 4E
Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Landing
9:29 PM
Land - Landing Zone 4, back toward WNW

A bright climbing star and a flame. The vehicle is in shadow itself, so there is no lit plume behind it.

That morning

Sunrise

6:27 AM

6:27 AM

6:00 AM Blue hour
6:27 AM Sunrise
7:03 AM Golden hour ends

Sunset

4:48 PM

4:48 PM

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

4:12 PM Golden hour
4:48 PM Sunset
5:15 PM Blue hour ends

Moon

Waning crescent

10% lit

3:13 AM – 2:44 PM

ESE WSW
3:13 AM Moonrise
3:33 AM 4°
8:59 AM Highest, 48°
2:25 PM 4°
2:44 PM Moonset

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

Timetable

  • Moonrise 3:13 AM
  • Morning blue hour 6:00 AM–6:27 AM
  • Sunrise 6:27 AM
  • Morning golden hour 6:27 AM–7:03 AM
  • Morning best color 6:31 AM
  • Moonset 2:45 PM
  • Evening golden hour 4:12 PM–4:48 PM
  • Sunset 4:48 PM
  • Evening blue hour 4:48 PM–5:15 PM
  • Evening best color 4:54 PM
  • Fully dark 6:15 PM–5:01 AM
  • Dark, no Moon 6:15 PM–4:15 AM

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