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Ciudad del Carmen

18.646° N   91.830° W  ·  6 M
38 /100
PEAK
Marginal, but there is a 1 hour gap from 20:00.
BEST WINDOW 20:00–21:00 · ASTRO DARK 20:00–05:00 · MOON 1%
Transparency
0.35
Seeing
0.62
Cloud
68%
Moon
1%

Fair tonight

Hour by hour, local to Ciudad del Carmen. 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
0
38
32
30
31
28
29
31
29
29
14
0
BEST WINDOW
Low cloud
31%
23%
2%
17%
1%
6%
6%
6%
4%
8%
9%
9%
9%
Mid cloud
2%
8%
6%
2%
4%
0%
0%
0%
2%
0%
1%
1%
0%
High cloud
81%
70%
66%
72%
96%
91%
98%
98%
91%
93%
91%
88%
94%
Transparency
0.10
0.35
0.33
0.34
0.34
0.33
0.33
0.33
0.34
0.34
0.32
0.30
0.30
Seeing
0.44
0.44
0.48
0.50
0.59
0.62
0.60
0.57
0.56
0.51
0.49
0.49
0.53
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
−63
Transparency
−13
Seeing
−3
Moonlight
−0
Darkness
−21
Score
0
CLOUD 88% LOW 31% MID 2% HIGH 81% SUN 7.6° MOON 12.0° / 0% WIND 8 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 19:30 · OBSERVE 20:00–21:00 · 1H · MEAN 39

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

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ASTRONOMICAL DARK FROM 20:00
SET UP 19:30 · OBSERVE 20:00–21:00 · 1H · MEAN 37

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

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ASTRONOMICAL DARK FROM 20:00SEEING STAYS SOFT THROUGHOUTMOONLIGHT 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 68%
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 68%
SET UP 19:30 · OBSERVE 20:00–21:00 · 1H · MEAN 38

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

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ASTRONOMICAL DARK FROM 20:00
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The next week of nights

Tonight · 12 Aug
38
Fair
MOON 0%
20:00–21:00
Tomorrow · 13 Aug
54
Fair
MOON 3%
02:00–05:00
Friday · 14 Aug
46
Fair
MOON 7%
22:00–01:00
Saturday · 15 Aug
33
Poor
MOON 15%
Sunday · 16 Aug
61
Good
MOON 23%
00:00–01:00
Monday · 17 Aug
44
Fair
MOON 32%
00:00–01:00
Tuesday · 18 Aug
21
Poor
MOON 42%
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About this forecast

Conditions for Ciudad del Carmen, Mexico 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 →