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Buôn Ma Thuột

12.668° N   108.038° E  ·  459 M
60 /100
PEAK
Worth setting up — 6 hours of workable sky from 23:00.
BEST WINDOW 23:00–05:00 · ASTRO DARK 23:00–05:00 · MOON 0%
Transparency
0.37
Seeing
0.90
Cloud
19%
Moon
0%

Good tonight

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

Sky state
Lighter = daylight and twilight  ·  unshaded = astronomical dark
Score
23
00
01
02
03
04
05
06
53
60
52
53
39
42
12
0
BEST WINDOW
Low cloud
10%
11%
13%
18%
23%
28%
29%
18%
Mid cloud
1%
1%
1%
4%
11%
7%
9%
8%
High cloud
31%
9%
29%
10%
35%
17%
9%
9%
Transparency
0.37
0.36
0.33
0.31
0.30
0.29
0.30
0.30
Seeing
0.82
0.85
0.90
0.90
0.88
0.85
0.85
0.84
Moon clear
down
down
down
down
down
down
down
0%
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
23 Fair · 53/100
Starting from
100
Cloud
−26
Transparency
−19
Seeing
−2
Moonlight
−0
Darkness
−0
Score
53
CLOUD 39% LOW 10% MID 1% HIGH 31% SUN -59.4° MOON -58.0° / 0% WIND 4 TEMP 25°
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 22:30 · OBSERVE 23:00–05:00 · 6H · MEAN 50

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

23010305
TWILIGHT BEGINS 05:00
SET UP 22:30 · OBSERVE 23:00–06:00 · 7H · MEAN 54

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

23010305
TWILIGHT BEGINS 06:00MOONLIGHT IGNORED FOR THIS TARGET
SET UP 22:30 · OBSERVE 23:00–03:00 · 4H · MEAN 50

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

23010305
CLOUD RETURNS 03:00
SET UP 22:30 · OBSERVE 23:00–01:00 · 2H · MEAN 41

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

23010305
CLOUD RETURNS 01:00
SET UP 22:30 · OBSERVE 23:00–05:00 · 6H · MEAN 50

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

23010305
TWILIGHT BEGINS 05:00
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The next week of nights

Tonight · 12 Aug
60
Good
MOON 0%
23:00–05:00
Tomorrow · 13 Aug
41
Fair
MOON 1%
02:00–03:00
Friday · 14 Aug
39
Fair
MOON 5%
20:00–22:00
Saturday · 15 Aug
23
Poor
MOON 10%
Sunday · 16 Aug
18
Poor
MOON 19%
Monday · 17 Aug
30
Poor
MOON 28%
Tuesday · 18 Aug
15
Poor
MOON 37%
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About this forecast

Conditions for Buôn Ma Thuột, Vietnam 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 →