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Beled Hawo

3.928° N   41.880° E  ·  218 M
66 /100
PEAK
Worth setting up — 9 hours of workable sky from 21:00.
BEST WINDOW 21:00–06:00 · ASTRO DARK 21:00–05:00 · MOON 0%
Transparency
1.00
Seeing
0.66
Cloud
48%
Moon
0%

Good tonight

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

Sky state
Lighter = daylight and twilight  ·  unshaded = astronomical dark
Score
21
22
23
00
01
02
03
04
05
06
54
66
41
40
37
37
41
46
41
0
BEST WINDOW
Low cloud
0%
0%
0%
0%
1%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
Mid cloud
0%
0%
0%
1%
0%
0%
0%
2%
3%
9%
High cloud
75%
48%
90%
88%
95%
97%
87%
73%
81%
87%
Transparency
1.00
1.00
0.93
0.86
0.81
0.79
0.74
0.71
0.70
0.66
Seeing
0.66
0.58
0.34
0.28
0.37
0.42
0.48
0.55
0.61
0.67
Moon clear
down
down
down
down
down
down
down
down
down
down
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
21 Fair · 54/100
Starting from
100
Cloud
−41
Transparency
−0
Seeing
−5
Moonlight
−0
Darkness
−0
Score
54
CLOUD 75% LOW 0% MID 0% HIGH 75% SUN -37.5° MOON -35.7° / 0% WIND 5 TEMP 31°
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 20:30 · OBSERVE 21:00–06:00 · 9H · MEAN 45

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

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TWILIGHT BEGINS 06:00
SET UP 02:30 · OBSERVE 03:00–06:00 · 3H · MEAN 38

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

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TWILIGHT BEGINS 06:00MOONLIGHT IGNORED FOR THIS TARGET
SET UP 20:30 · OBSERVE 21:00–23:00 · 2H · MEAN 53

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

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CLOUD RETURNS 23:00
SET UP 21:30 · OBSERVE 22:00–23:00 · 1H · MEAN 51

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

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HIGH CLOUD CLEARS 22:00CLOUD RETURNS 23:00
SET UP 20:30 · OBSERVE 21:00–01:00 · 4H · MEAN 47

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

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The next week of nights

Tonight · 12 Aug
66
Good
MOON 0%
21:00–06:00
Tomorrow · 13 Aug
82
Excellent
MOON 2%
20:00–01:00
Friday · 14 Aug
87
Excellent
MOON 6%
20:00–06:00
Saturday · 15 Aug
51
Fair
MOON 13%
21:00–22:00
Sunday · 16 Aug
88
Excellent
MOON 21%
21:00–22:00
Monday · 17 Aug
59
Good
MOON 30%
21:00–22:00
Tuesday · 18 Aug
62
Good
MOON 39%
21:00–22:00
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About this forecast

Conditions for Beled Hawo, Somalia 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 →