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Damboya

7.348° N   37.951° E  ·  2250 M
69 /100
PEAK
Worth setting up — 1 hour of workable sky from 05:00.
BEST WINDOW 05:00–06:00 · ASTRO DARK 21:00–06:00 · MOON 0%
Transparency
0.30
Seeing
1.00
Cloud
6%
Moon
0%

Good tonight

Hour by hour, local to Damboya. 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
06
07
34
9
14
11
32
34
5
10
69
1
0
BEST WINDOW
Low cloud
1%
49%
50%
48%
5%
6%
4%
1%
1%
1%
2%
Mid cloud
24%
47%
17%
19%
10%
23%
100%
95%
2%
2%
43%
High cloud
63%
20%
7%
48%
81%
61%
38%
14%
3%
29%
41%
Transparency
0.19
0.18
0.18
0.18
0.20
0.23
0.26
0.28
0.30
0.30
0.29
Seeing
1.00
1.00
1.00
0.98
0.96
0.98
0.96
0.96
1.00
1.00
1.00
Moon clear
down
down
down
down
down
down
down
down
down
down
0%
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 Poor · 34/100
Starting from
100
Cloud
−49
Transparency
−16
Seeing
−0
Moonlight
−0
Darkness
−0
Score
34
CLOUD 73% LOW 1% MID 24% HIGH 63% SUN -32.6° MOON -30.7° / 0% WIND 2 TEMP 14°
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 04:30 · OBSERVE 05:00–06:00 · 1H · MEAN 69

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

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CLOUD BREAKS 05:00CLOUD RETURNS 06:00
SET UP 00:30 · OBSERVE 01:00–03:00 · 2H · MEAN 39

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

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CLOUD RETURNS 03:00MOONLIGHT IGNORED FOR THIS TARGET
SET UP 04:30 · OBSERVE 05:00–06:00 · 1H · MEAN 64

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

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CLOUD BREAKS 05:00CLOUD RETURNS 06:00
SET UP 04:30 · OBSERVE 05:00–06:00 · 1H · MEAN 55

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

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CLOUD BREAKS 05:00CLOUD RETURNS 06:00
SET UP 04:30 · OBSERVE 05:00–06:00 · 1H · MEAN 73

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

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CLOUD BREAKS 05:00CLOUD RETURNS 06:00
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The next week of nights

Tonight · 12 Aug
69
Good
MOON 0%
05:00–06:00
Tomorrow · 13 Aug
42
Fair
MOON 2%
01:00–06:00
Friday · 14 Aug
64
Good
MOON 6%
05:00–06:00
Saturday · 15 Aug
53
Fair
MOON 13%
03:00–04:00
Sunday · 16 Aug
70
Good
MOON 21%
03:00–04:00
Monday · 17 Aug
59
Good
MOON 30%
03:00–04:00
Tuesday · 18 Aug
56
Good
MOON 39%
21:00–22:00
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About this forecast

Conditions for Damboya, Ethiopia 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 →