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Ciudad Bolívar

8.124° N   63.547° W  ·  73 M
40 /100
PEAK
Marginal, but there is a 2 hours gap from 02:00.
BEST WINDOW 02:00–04:00 · ASTRO DARK 20:00–05:00 · MOON 0%
Transparency
0.24
Seeing
0.97
Cloud
52%
Moon
0%

Fair tonight

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

Sky state
Lighter = daylight and twilight  ·  unshaded = astronomical dark
Score
18
19
20
21
22
23
00
01
02
03
04
05
06
0
2
31
33
32
30
11
31
40
36
14
29
0
BEST WINDOW
Low cloud
8%
30%
0%
0%
0%
0%
1%
1%
9%
18%
65%
1%
9%
Mid cloud
12%
25%
0%
4%
9%
19%
69%
31%
3%
23%
13%
1%
3%
High cloud
66%
80%
90%
90%
88%
85%
94%
67%
51%
25%
52%
93%
96%
Transparency
0.45
0.24
0.10
0.22
0.23
0.23
0.10
0.24
0.10
0.10
0.10
0.19
0.19
Seeing
1.00
0.57
0.84
0.89
0.92
0.91
0.91
0.93
0.91
0.95
0.96
0.97
0.94
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
18 Clouded out · 0/100
Starting from
100
Cloud
−48
Transparency
−12
Seeing
−0
Moonlight
−0
Darkness
−41
Score
0
CLOUD 71% LOW 8% MID 12% HIGH 66% SUN 6.8° MOON 10.5° / 0% WIND 1 TEMP 32°
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 01:30 · OBSERVE 02:00–04:00 · 2H · MEAN 37

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

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HIGH CLOUD CLEARS 02:00CLOUD RETURNS 04:00
SET UP 00:30 · OBSERVE 01:00–04:00 · 3H · MEAN 43

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

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HIGH CLOUD CLEARS 01:00CLOUD RETURNS 04:00MOONLIGHT IGNORED FOR THIS TARGET
NO USABLE WINDOW FOR THIS TARGET TONIGHT

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

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CLOUD NEVER DROPS BELOW 52%
NO USABLE WINDOW FOR THIS TARGET TONIGHT

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

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CLOUD NEVER DROPS BELOW 52%
SET UP 01:30 · OBSERVE 02:00–03:00 · 1H · MEAN 38

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

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HIGH CLOUD CLEARS 02:00
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The next week of nights

Tonight · 12 Aug
40
Fair
MOON 0%
02:00–04:00
Tomorrow · 13 Aug
42
Fair
MOON 3%
22:00–00:00
Friday · 14 Aug
28
Poor
MOON 7%
Saturday · 15 Aug
50
Fair
MOON 15%
20:00–21:00
Sunday · 16 Aug
46
Fair
MOON 23%
20:00–21:00
Monday · 17 Aug
34
Poor
MOON 32%
Tuesday · 18 Aug
48
Fair
MOON 42%
20:00–21:00
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About this forecast

Conditions for Ciudad Bolívar, Venezuela 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 →