Every night of 2026 at this latitude, drawn as the hours between astronomical dusk and astronomical dawn. 3,363 hours in the year, and not one night without darkness in it.
3 of the 12 objects on the house list are worth the trouble in month 10. Each altitude below is where the object stands at the moment this page draws, computed rather than looked up.
47 Tucanae
mag 4.10 · alt 39°
47 Tucanae, the second-finest globular cluster in the sky and arguably the first. Circumpolar from here, so it is available on any clear night of the year.
The Large Magellanic Cloud
mag 0.90 · alt 17°
A whole galaxy, naked-eye, that looks like a piece of the Milky Way somebody moved. Guests routinely mistake it for cloud and then watch it fail to drift.
The Small Magellanic Cloud
mag 2.70 · alt 37°
Fainter than its neighbour, and worth the extra minutes of adaptation. If you can see it plainly, your eyes have finished the job the lamp interrupted.
Out of season this month, and listed rather than hidden: Omega Centauri, The Carina Nebula, The Lagoon Nebula, The Sagittarius Cluster, The Jewel Box, The Coalsack, Antares, Rigil Kentaurus, The Sagittarius Star Cloud.
A dark sky with a gibbous moon in it is a suburban sky. Nothing on this site pretends otherwise, and the figures below are for the night being drawn above.
1% lit
Below the horizon, so it is not costing you anything tonight. Little enough not to matter for most of what the guides show.
8 h 53
Between astronomical dusk at 20:16 and astronomical dawn at 05:09 on 9 October 2026.
At 25.0° south the sun reaches eighteen degrees below the horizon on every night of the year, so there is no month in which this property has nothing to sell. That is a consequence of the latitude and nothing else.
It is not true everywhere. The same code, given 55° north, reports 90 nights of 2026 with no astronomical darkness at all at Craiglee Bothy — and says so on that property’s own pages, because a site that will only deliver good news is a site nobody should trust with the rest of its figures.