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Boca Chica

18.450° N   69.600° W  ·  12 M
46 /100
PEAK
Marginal, but there is a 4 hours gap from 21:00.
BEST WINDOW 21:00–01:00 · ASTRO DARK 21:00–06:00 · MOON 0%
Transparency
0.20
Seeing
0.97
Cloud
45%
Moon
0%

Fair tonight

Hour by hour, local to Boca Chica. 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
0
25
42
42
37
46
21
6
0
3
25
0
BEST WINDOW
Low cloud
7%
2%
11%
4%
6%
10%
25%
77%
100%
87%
9%
29%
Mid cloud
18%
4%
0%
1%
1%
3%
14%
30%
51%
20%
2%
1%
High cloud
71%
49%
50%
57%
72%
36%
85%
64%
72%
96%
92%
87%
Transparency
0.20
0.20
0.19
0.19
0.19
0.19
0.10
0.10
0.10
0.10
0.10
0.18
Seeing
0.70
0.94
0.86
0.84
0.84
0.94
0.97
0.80
0.88
0.68
0.62
0.72
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
−53
Transparency
−15
Seeing
−2
Moonlight
−0
Darkness
−30
Score
0
CLOUD 77% LOW 7% MID 18% HIGH 71% SUN 0.9° MOON 5.0° / 0% WIND 5 TEMP 25°
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 21:00–01:00 · 4H · MEAN 41

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

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ASTRONOMICAL DARK FROM 21:00CLOUD RETURNS 01:00
SET UP 19:30 · OBSERVE 20:00–01:00 · 5H · MEAN 49

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

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HIGH CLOUD CLEARS 20:00CLOUD RETURNS 01:00MOONLIGHT IGNORED FOR THIS TARGET
SET UP 23:30 · OBSERVE 00:00–01:00 · 1H · MEAN 38

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

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HIGH CLOUD CLEARS 00:00CLOUD RETURNS 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.

192123010305
CLOUD NEVER DROPS BELOW 45%
SET UP 20:30 · OBSERVE 21:00–23:00 · 2H · MEAN 41

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

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ASTRONOMICAL DARK FROM 21:00
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The next week of nights

Tonight · 12 Aug
46
Fair
MOON 0%
21:00–01:00
Tomorrow · 13 Aug
39
Fair
MOON 3%
04:00–06:00
Friday · 14 Aug
53
Fair
MOON 7%
00:00–03:00
Saturday · 15 Aug
60
Good
MOON 15%
02:00–03:00
Sunday · 16 Aug
32
Poor
MOON 23%
Monday · 17 Aug
65
Good
MOON 32%
02:00–03:00
Tuesday · 18 Aug
60
Good
MOON 42%
02:00–03:00
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About this forecast

Conditions for Boca Chica, Dominican Republic 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 →