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What Can I See in the Sky Tonight in Dobele, Dobele Municipality, Latvia?
New Moon moon at 0%, Venus shines at magnitude -4.4. Calculated for 56.62°, 23.28° (Europe/Riga).
Visible planets tonight
Venus, Jupiter, Mercury, Saturn, Mars — brightest: Venus at mag -4.4 in Virgo
🔭 Tonight's Sky Report
📍 Dobele, Dobele Municipality, Latvia — Thursday, August 13
Tonight's sky above Dobele, Dobele Municipality, Latvia
Above Dobele, Dobele Municipality, Latvia tonight, the sky is a live system: the Moon's illumination, which planets have cleared the horizon, and whether Earth's magnetosphere is quiet or churning all change hour by hour.
Above Dobele, Dobele Municipality, Latvia tonight (56.62°, 23.28°), expect a new moon moon at 0% illumination. The night gives 1.9 hours of true astronomical darkness. At 56.6°, aurora needs a strong storm — roughly Kp 3.4 or higher — to reach Dobele, Dobele Municipality, Latvia.
Local sky character in Dobele
Northern mid-latitudes · northern hemisphere · 37 m elevation
- The north celestial pole stands 56.6° above the horizon, so stars within 57° of it never set from here.
- About 91.8% of the whole sky rises above the horizon at some point in the year from this latitude.
- The Milky Way's core in Sagittarius culminates about 4.4° up, staying low, so a clear southern horizon matters.
- At 37 m elevation, roughly 0% of the atmosphere's mass is already below you, which measurably reduces extinction near the horizon.
Dobele is small enough that local light domes are limited — on a clear, moonless night the Milky Way is realistically within reach.
Best nights this month in Dobele
Calculated for these coordinates and today's date — not a fixed list.
- 2026-08-13 — Darkest night of the coming month
The Moon is only 0% illuminated, giving the least lunar interference in the next 30 nights — the best window for the Milky Way and faint deep-sky targets from Dobele, Dobele Municipality, Latvia.
- 2026-08-28 — Full Moon
A 100%-lit Moon washes out faint objects, but lunar terrain along the limb is at its most striking — plan bright targets and planets instead of deep sky.
Dobele, Dobele Municipality, Latvia stargazing questions
- What can I see in the sky tonight from Dobele, Dobele Municipality, Latvia?
- Tonight from Dobele, Dobele Municipality, Latvia expect a new moon Moon at 0% illumination, with these naked-eye planets above the horizon after dark: Venus, Jupiter, Mercury, Saturn, Mars. The night offers about 1.9 hours of true astronomical darkness.
- How likely are the northern lights in Dobele, Dobele Municipality, Latvia?
- Dobele, Dobele Municipality, Latvia sits at 56.6° N, inside the latitude range the auroral oval reaches on ordinary active nights — the oval sits near 58° geomagnetic latitude at Kp 3. A stronger disturbance — around Kp 3.4 — is still needed for the display to reach overhead.
- What time of night is best for aurora watching in Dobele, Dobele Municipality, Latvia?
- Auroral substorms cluster around local magnetic midnight, so the hours either side of midnight are statistically strongest. You also need real darkness: this page's dusk and dawn times mark the usable window, and the window is longest around the winter months.
- Do I need to leave Dobele, Dobele Municipality, Latvia to see the aurora?
- Dobele, Dobele Municipality, Latvia is small enough that local sky glow is not the limiting factor; a clear view toward the northern horizon and clear weather matter more.
- How dark does it actually get in Dobele, Dobele Municipality, Latvia tonight?
- About 1.9 hours of astronomical darkness (Sun more than 18° below the horizon). That is the real observing window for faint objects; brighter targets are workable from dusk onward.
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