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17.500° N   88.198° W  ·  6 M
58 /100
PEAK
Worth setting up — 9 hours of workable sky from 20:00.
BEST WINDOW 20:00–05:00 · ASTRO DARK 20:00–05:00 · MOON 1%
Transparency
0.36
Seeing
0.71
Cloud
16%
Moon
1%

Good tonight

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

Sky state
Lighter = daylight and twilight  ·  unshaded = astronomical dark
Score
18
19
20
21
22
23
00
01
02
03
04
05
06
0
8
46
42
50
44
50
58
48
56
57
13
0
BEST WINDOW
Low cloud
40%
44%
26%
29%
21%
20%
22%
6%
6%
9%
13%
15%
7%
Mid cloud
20%
12%
2%
2%
1%
6%
3%
3%
0%
2%
0%
3%
1%
High cloud
98%
53%
16%
19%
9%
0%
0%
10%
44%
13%
3%
2%
2%
Transparency
0.43
0.36
0.36
0.36
0.36
0.10
0.33
0.33
0.32
0.32
0.33
0.34
0.34
Seeing
0.68
0.70
0.68
0.64
0.61
0.62
0.60
0.69
0.71
0.71
0.68
0.68
0.70
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
18 Clouded out · 0/100
Starting from
100
Cloud
−77
Transparency
−5
Seeing
−1
Moonlight
−0
Darkness
−16
Score
0
CLOUD 98% LOW 40% MID 20% HIGH 98% SUN 4.0° MOON 8.5° / 0% WIND 5 TEMP 28°
Excellent 75+ Good 55+ Fair 35+ Poor 15+ Not worth it Seeing is estimated from surface wind — see how we score.

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 19:30 · OBSERVE 20:00–05:00 · 9H · MEAN 52

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

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HIGH CLOUD CLEARS 20:00TWILIGHT BEGINS 05:00
SET UP 19:30 · OBSERVE 20:00–06:00 · 10H · MEAN 53

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

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HIGH CLOUD CLEARS 20:00TWILIGHT BEGINS 06:00MOONLIGHT IGNORED FOR THIS TARGET
SET UP 19:30 · OBSERVE 20:00–05:00 · 9H · MEAN 49

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

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HIGH CLOUD CLEARS 20:00TWILIGHT BEGINS 05:00
SET UP 02:30 · OBSERVE 03:00–05:00 · 2H · MEAN 45

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

18202200020406
HIGH CLOUD CLEARS 03:00TWILIGHT BEGINS 05:00
SET UP 19:30 · OBSERVE 20:00–05:00 · 9H · MEAN 55

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

18202200020406
HIGH CLOUD CLEARS 20:00TWILIGHT BEGINS 05:00
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The next week of nights

Tonight · 12 Aug
58
Good
MOON 0%
20:00–05:00
Tomorrow · 13 Aug
40
Fair
MOON 3%
22:00–23:00
Friday · 14 Aug
57
Good
MOON 7%
20:00–22:00
Saturday · 15 Aug
57
Good
MOON 15%
00:00–01:00
Sunday · 16 Aug
30
Poor
MOON 23%
Monday · 17 Aug
55
Good
MOON 32%
00:00–01:00
Tuesday · 18 Aug
43
Fair
MOON 42%
00:00–01:00
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About this forecast

Conditions for Belize City, Belize 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 →