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Bulgan

48.813° N   103.535° E  ·  1204 M
77 /100
PEAK
A genuinely good night — 3 hours of clear, dark sky from 01:00.
BEST WINDOW 01:00–04:00 · ASTRO DARK 01:00–04:00 · MOON 0%
Transparency
0.49
Seeing
1.00
Cloud
0%
Moon
0%

Excellent tonight

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

Sky state
Lighter = daylight and twilight  ·  unshaded = astronomical dark
Score
01
02
03
04
05
06
55
77
77
66
12
0
BEST WINDOW
Low cloud
0%
0%
0%
0%
1%
1%
Mid cloud
0%
0%
0%
1%
37%
53%
High cloud
50%
2%
0%
0%
4%
26%
Transparency
0.40
0.43
0.43
0.48
0.49
0.49
Seeing
1.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
Moon clear
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
01 Good · 55/100
Starting from
100
Cloud
−28
Transparency
−17
Seeing
−0
Moonlight
−0
Darkness
−0
Score
55
CLOUD 50% LOW 0% MID 0% HIGH 50% SUN -26.2° MOON -25.2° / 0% WIND 1 TEMP 16°
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
Conditions for planets and the Moon

Seeing is everything. Darkness and moonlight barely matter, and a hazy, humid night that ruins deep-sky work is often the steadiest night of the year for planetary detail.

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 01:00–05:00 · 4H · MEAN 67

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

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CLOUD RETURNS 05:00
SET UP 00:30 · OBSERVE 01:00–06:00 · 5H · MEAN 74

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

010305
CLOUD RETURNS 06:00MOONLIGHT IGNORED FOR THIS TARGET
SET UP 00:30 · OBSERVE 01:00–05:00 · 4H · MEAN 63

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

010305
CLOUD RETURNS 05:00
SET UP 01:30 · OBSERVE 02:00–05:00 · 3H · MEAN 62

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

010305
HIGH CLOUD CLEARS 02:00CLOUD RETURNS 05:00
SET UP 00:30 · OBSERVE 01:00–05:00 · 4H · MEAN 69

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

010305
CLOUD RETURNS 05:00
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The next week of nights

Tonight · 12 Aug
77
Excellent
MOON 0%
01:00–04:00
Tomorrow · 13 Aug
40
Fair
MOON 1%
23:00–01:00
Friday · 14 Aug
71
Good
MOON 5%
23:00–04:00
Saturday · 15 Aug
56
Good
MOON 10%
02:00–03:00
Sunday · 16 Aug
44
Fair
MOON 19%
02:00–03:00
Monday · 17 Aug
72
Good
MOON 28%
02:00–03:00
Tuesday · 18 Aug
71
Good
MOON 37%
02:00–03:00
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About this forecast

Conditions for Bulgan, Mongolia 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 →