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Shabbat Candle Lighting Time: 4:12 PM. Earliest time to light Chanukah candles: 3:33 PM. Latest time to light Chanukah candles: a few minutes before 4:30 PM. Candles should burn until: 5:45 PM. (Regular Chanukah candles will not burn long enough.
Various claims in television commercials and on the web suggest that the human eye can detect a candle flame 3.5 to 30 miles away. These claims are wrong, in large part because the background light of the sky is not taken into account. Even at a dark sky site, the V-band sky brightness on a moonless night varies from 21.0 to 22.0 mag/sec2 (136 to 54 nL) over the course of the 11 year solar cycle. One calculation on the web sets the background to 0.1 nL, as if one had a photographic dark room miles in extent.