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Cockeysville

39.481° N   76.644° W  ·  91 M
66 /100
PEAK
Worth setting up — 6 hours of workable sky from 23:00.
BEST WINDOW 23:00–05:00 · ASTRO DARK 22:00–05:00 · MOON 0%
Transparency
0.51
Seeing
1.00
Cloud
1%
Moon
0%

Good tonight

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

Sky state
Lighter = daylight and twilight  ·  unshaded = astronomical dark
Score
20
21
22
23
00
01
02
03
04
05
06
0
13
24
41
54
57
62
63
66
47
0
BEST WINDOW
Low cloud
0%
3%
4%
4%
6%
13%
6%
6%
1%
1%
1%
Mid cloud
13%
8%
45%
28%
7%
9%
9%
5%
0%
0%
0%
High cloud
88%
87%
85%
49%
34%
2%
0%
2%
8%
0%
0%
Transparency
0.55
0.51
0.48
0.47
0.41
0.32
0.28
0.26
0.26
0.29
0.28
Seeing
0.99
0.98
0.95
0.94
0.97
0.97
1.00
1.00
0.93
0.90
0.89
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
20 Clouded out · 0/100
Starting from
100
Cloud
−54
Transparency
−8
Seeing
−0
Moonlight
−0
Darkness
−37
Score
0
CLOUD 90% LOW 0% MID 13% HIGH 88% SUN 0.4° MOON 3.9° / 0% WIND 2 TEMP 26°
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 23:00–06:00 · 7H · MEAN 54

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

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HIGH CLOUD CLEARS 23:00TWILIGHT BEGINS 06:00
SET UP 22:30 · OBSERVE 23:00–06:00 · 7H · MEAN 69

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

202200020406
HIGH CLOUD CLEARS 23:00TWILIGHT BEGINS 06:00MOONLIGHT IGNORED FOR THIS TARGET
SET UP 23:30 · OBSERVE 00:00–06:00 · 6H · MEAN 53

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

202200020406
HIGH CLOUD CLEARS 00:00TWILIGHT BEGINS 06:00
SET UP 23:30 · OBSERVE 00:00–05:00 · 5H · MEAN 45

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

202200020406
HIGH CLOUD CLEARS 00:00TWILIGHT BEGINS 05:00
SET UP 22:30 · OBSERVE 23:00–06:00 · 7H · MEAN 56

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

202200020406
HIGH CLOUD CLEARS 23:00TWILIGHT BEGINS 06:00
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The next week of nights

Tonight · 12 Aug
66
Good
MOON 0%
23:00–05:00
Tomorrow · 13 Aug
48
Fair
MOON 3%
22:00–01:00
Friday · 14 Aug
30
Poor
MOON 7%
Saturday · 15 Aug
55
Good
MOON 15%
02:00–03:00
Sunday · 16 Aug
27
Poor
MOON 23%
Monday · 17 Aug
53
Fair
MOON 32%
02:00–03:00
Tuesday · 18 Aug
83
Excellent
MOON 42%
02:00–03:00
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About this forecast

Conditions for Cockeysville, Maryland, United States 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 →