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Chicholi

21.266° N   79.116° E  ·  293 M
56 /100
PEAK
Worth setting up — 3 hours of workable sky from 02:30.
BEST WINDOW 02:30–05:30 · ASTRO DARK 21:30–05:30 · MOON 0%
Transparency
0.36
Seeing
0.93
Cloud
29%
Moon
0%

Good tonight

Hour by hour, local to Chicholi. 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
37
29
31
28
31
52
40
56
0
BEST WINDOW
Low cloud
5%
11%
3%
2%
5%
9%
6%
4%
6%
Mid cloud
2%
6%
8%
13%
9%
20%
17%
2%
11%
High cloud
84%
96%
95%
98%
92%
3%
50%
27%
12%
Transparency
0.36
0.34
0.33
0.33
0.33
0.31
0.30
0.30
0.32
Seeing
0.89
0.93
0.91
0.90
0.90
0.88
0.89
0.88
0.91
Moon clear
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 · 37/100
Starting from
100
Cloud
−49
Transparency
−13
Seeing
−1
Moonlight
−0
Darkness
−0
Score
37
CLOUD 84% LOW 5% MID 2% HIGH 84% SUN -35.0° MOON -33.7° / 0% WIND 3 TEMP 27°
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 02:00 · OBSERVE 02:30–05:30 · 3H · MEAN 49

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

2123010305
HIGH CLOUD CLEARS 02:30TWILIGHT BEGINS 05:30
SET UP 02:00 · OBSERVE 02:30–05:30 · 3H · MEAN 57

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

2123010305
HIGH CLOUD CLEARS 02:30TWILIGHT BEGINS 05:30MOONLIGHT IGNORED FOR THIS TARGET
SET UP 02:00 · OBSERVE 02:30–03:30 · 1H · MEAN 49

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

2123010305
HIGH CLOUD CLEARS 02:30CLOUD RETURNS 03:30
SET UP 04:00 · OBSERVE 04:30–05:30 · 1H · MEAN 39

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

2123010305
HIGH CLOUD CLEARS 04:30TWILIGHT BEGINS 05:30
SET UP 02:00 · OBSERVE 02:30–05:30 · 3H · MEAN 49

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

2123010305
HIGH CLOUD CLEARS 02:30TWILIGHT BEGINS 05:30
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The next week of nights

Tonight · 12 Aug
56
Good
MOON 0%
02:30–05:30
Tomorrow · 13 Aug
31
Poor
MOON 2%
Friday · 14 Aug
27
Poor
MOON 6%
Saturday · 15 Aug
5
Clouded out
MOON 13%
Sunday · 16 Aug
10
Clouded out
MOON 21%
Monday · 17 Aug
4
Clouded out
MOON 30%
Tuesday · 18 Aug
37
Fair
MOON 39%
23:30–00:30
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About this forecast

Conditions for Chicholi, India 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 →