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Chinde

-18.581° S 36.459° E · 4 M

45 /100
PEAK

Marginal, but there is a 5 hours gap from 00:00.

BEST WINDOW 00:00–05:00 · ASTRO DARK 20:00–05:00 · MOON 0%

Transparency

0.39

Seeing

0.36

Cloud

23%

Moon

Fair tonight

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

Sky state

Lighter = daylight and twilight · unshaded = astronomical dark

Score

BEST WINDOW

Low cloud

11%

12%

31%

27%

28%

19%

23%

24%

26%

35%

Mid cloud

20%

16%

31%

21%

15%

10%

16%

10%

18%

13%

High cloud

Transparency

0.28

0.29

0.36

0.39

0.37

0.34

0.32

0.30

0.29

0.27

0.28

Seeing

0.23

0.21

0.16

0.23

0.28

0.27

0.29

0.31

0.27

0.36

0.32

Moon clear

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

20 Fair · 45/100

Starting from

100

Cloud

−22

Transparency

−22

Seeing

−11

Moonlight

−0

Darkness

−0

Score

CLOUD 23% LOW 5% MID 20% HIGH 0% SUN -37.5° MOON -36.0° / 0% WIND 10 TEMP 21°

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

What the GoodSeeing score actually measures

One number from 0 to 100 per hour, combining cloud, transparency, seeing, moonlight and darkness. Cloud gates everything else — no amount of steady, dark air rescues an overcast sky.

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.

Deep-sky visualPlanetary & lunarWide-field imagingLong exposureMeteor watching

SET UP 19:30 · OBSERVE 20:00–05:00 · 9H · MEAN 46

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

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TWILIGHT BEGINS 05:00

SET UP 23:30 · OBSERVE 00:00–05:00 · 5H · MEAN 39

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

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TWILIGHT BEGINS 05:00SEEING STAYS SOFT THROUGHOUTMOONLIGHT IGNORED FOR THIS TARGET

SET UP 19:30 · OBSERVE 20:00–05:00 · 9H · MEAN 45

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

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TWILIGHT BEGINS 05:00

SET UP 19:30 · OBSERVE 20:00–22:00 · 2H · MEAN 37

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

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SET UP 19:30 · OBSERVE 20:00–05:00 · 9H · MEAN 49

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

202200020406

TWILIGHT BEGINS 05:00

The next week of nights

Tonight · 12 Aug

Fair

MOON 0%
00:00–05:00

Tomorrow · 13 Aug

Fair

MOON 2%
01:00–05:00

Friday · 14 Aug

Good

MOON 6%
19:00–05:00

Saturday · 15 Aug

Good

MOON 13%
20:00–21:00

Sunday · 16 Aug

Good

MOON 21%
02:00–03:00

Monday · 17 Aug

Good

MOON 30%
20:00–21:00

Tuesday · 18 Aug

Fair

MOON 39%
20:00–21:00

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About this forecast

Conditions for Chinde, Mozambique 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 →