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Bafoulabé

13.808° N   10.833° W  ·  82 M
47 /100
PEAK
Marginal, but there is a 3 hours gap from 01:00.
BEST WINDOW 01:00–04:00 · ASTRO DARK 21:00–06:00 · MOON 0%
Transparency
0.26
Seeing
1.00
Cloud
42%
Moon
0%

Fair tonight

Hour by hour, local to Bafoulabé. Colour encodes the score and nothing else; every other measurement is luminance.

Sky state
Lighter = daylight and twilight  ·  unshaded = astronomical dark
Score
19
20
21
22
23
00
01
02
03
04
05
06
07
0
19
32
36
41
34
46
47
39
1
40
7
0
BEST WINDOW
Low cloud
2%
1%
1%
0%
0%
0%
0%
1%
9%
95%
13%
23%
12%
Mid cloud
6%
0%
0%
1%
1%
0%
0%
0%
0%
19%
6%
1%
1%
High cloud
95%
95%
98%
85%
72%
91%
59%
55%
59%
95%
39%
25%
23%
Transparency
0.10
0.26
0.22
0.21
0.21
0.20
0.18
0.19
0.10
0.10
0.10
0.19
0.20
Seeing
0.99
1.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
0.66
0.90
0.96
0.95
Moon clear
0%
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Inspect

Cloud tracks show clear sky — a longer bar is better. The figure inside each track is the raw measurement.

Why this hour scored what it did
19 Clouded out · 0/100
Starting from
100
Cloud
−55
Transparency
−16
Seeing
−0
Moonlight
−0
Darkness
−29
Score
0
CLOUD 95% LOW 2% MID 6% HIGH 95% SUN 0.9° MOON 3.4° / 0% WIND 2 TEMP 28°
Excellent 75+ Good 55+ Fair 35+ Poor 15+ Not worth it Seeing is estimated from surface wind — see how we score.
Tonight's limiting factor
When a clear gap is worth driving for

Ask how long the gap is relative to your setup time and your exposure length. A two-hour gap is a real session for a visual observer and close to worthless for someone doing four-minute subs on a target that needs three hours.

What are you doing tonight?

The same forecast, weighted for the target. Planetary work barely cares about moonlight; long exposures die on high cloud a visual observer would never notice.

SET UP 00:30 · OBSERVE 01:00–04:00 · 3H · MEAN 41

Darkness and moonlight dominate. Faint fuzzies need a genuinely dark sky more than they need steady air.

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HIGH CLOUD CLEARS 01:00CLOUD RETURNS 04:00
SET UP 20:30 · OBSERVE 21:00–04:00 · 7H · MEAN 47

Seeing is everything and moonlight is irrelevant. Bright targets punch through twilight, so darkness barely counts.

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ASTRONOMICAL DARK FROM 21:00CLOUD RETURNS 04:00MOONLIGHT IGNORED FOR THIS TARGET
SET UP 00:30 · OBSERVE 01:00–03:00 · 2H · MEAN 36

Tolerates soft seeing, but high cloud wrecks a wide frame and moonlight raises the background everywhere.

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HIGH CLOUD CLEARS 01:00
NO USABLE WINDOW FOR THIS TARGET TONIGHT

Needs conditions to hold still for hours. Sustained transparency matters more than any single good hour.

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CONDITIONS STAY BELOW THE USABLE THRESHOLD
SET UP 00:30 · OBSERVE 01:00–04:00 · 3H · MEAN 41

Naked eye, whole sky. Total cloud and moonlight are the only things that count.

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HIGH CLOUD CLEARS 01:00CLOUD RETURNS 04:00
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The next week of nights

Tonight · 12 Aug
47
Fair
MOON 0%
01:00–04:00
Tomorrow · 13 Aug
67
Good
MOON 2%
21:00–06:00
Friday · 14 Aug
59
Good
MOON 6%
21:00–02:00
Saturday · 15 Aug
33
Poor
MOON 13%
Sunday · 16 Aug
28
Poor
MOON 21%
Monday · 17 Aug
0
Clouded out
MOON 30%
Tuesday · 18 Aug
32
Poor
MOON 39%
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About this forecast

Conditions for Bafoulabé, Mali are computed from the MET Norway forecast model for these exact coordinates, combined with sun and moon positions we calculate directly. The score weighs cloud cover by layer, atmospheric transparency, estimated seeing, moonlight and how dark the sky actually gets. Read the full method →