astro_dark_window
Dark moonless observing window
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The genuinely dark, moonless observing window for a night: astronomical night intersected with the Moon being down, ranked across up to 62 nights with a trend. The right tool for "when should I stargaze / photograph the Milky Way / observe deep-sky objects". Location required. For plain twilight times use astro_sun.
Input schema
| Property | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| date | string | no | Night to start from. ISO 8601 UTC date or datetime, e.g. "2026-08-06" or "2026-08-06T21:00:00Z". Omit for the current moment. Years 1700 to 2200 only; outside that range the API refuses with DATE_OUT_OF_RANGE because the ephemeris is not reliable there. |
| nights | integer | no | How many nights to evaluate and rank. Default 1. |
| moon_illumination_max | number | no | Treat the Moon as tolerable below this illuminated fraction (0..1) even when up. |
| lat | number | no | Latitude in decimal degrees, north positive. Send lat and lon together. |
| lon | number | no | Longitude in decimal degrees, east positive (Lisbon is about -9.14). Send lat and lon together. |
| place | string | no | Place name instead of lat/lon, as "City" or "City,CC" with an ISO country code, e.g. "Lisbon,PT". Resolved server-side; the response then carries a required GeoNames CC BY 4.0 credit in its attribution field, which must be preserved when shown. |
| tz | string | no | IANA timezone like "Europe/Lisbon" to render event times in local time. Optional; a resolved place supplies its own timezone. |
Raw JSON schema
{
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"date": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Night to start from. ISO 8601 UTC date or datetime, e.g. \"2026-08-06\" or \"2026-08-06T21:00:00Z\". Omit for the current moment. Years 1700 to 2200 only; outside that range the API refuses with DATE_OUT_OF_RANGE because the ephemeris is not reliable there."
},
"nights": {
"type": "integer",
"minimum": 1,
"maximum": 62,
"description": "How many nights to evaluate and rank. Default 1."
},
"moon_illumination_max": {
"type": "number",
"minimum": 0,
"maximum": 1,
"description": "Treat the Moon as tolerable below this illuminated fraction (0..1) even when up."
},
"lat": {
"type": "number",
"minimum": -90,
"maximum": 90,
"description": "Latitude in decimal degrees, north positive. Send lat and lon together."
},
"lon": {
"type": "number",
"minimum": -180,
"maximum": 180,
"description": "Longitude in decimal degrees, east positive (Lisbon is about -9.14). Send lat and lon together."
},
"place": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Place name instead of lat/lon, as \"City\" or \"City,CC\" with an ISO country code, e.g. \"Lisbon,PT\". Resolved server-side; the response then carries a required GeoNames CC BY 4.0 credit in its attribution field, which must be preserved when shown."
},
"tz": {
"type": "string",
"description": "IANA timezone like \"Europe/Lisbon\" to render event times in local time. Optional; a resolved place supplies its own timezone."
}
},
"additionalProperties": false,
"anyOf": [
{
"required": [
"lat",
"lon"
]
},
{
"required": [
"place"
]
}
]
}