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Dhanera

24.510° N   72.023° E  ·  137 M
67 /100
PEAK
Worth setting up — 6 hours of workable sky from 23:30.
BEST WINDOW 23:30–05:30 · ASTRO DARK 22:30–05:30 · MOON 0%
Transparency
0.45
Seeing
1.00
Cloud
6%
Moon
0%

Good tonight

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

Sky state
Lighter = daylight and twilight  ·  unshaded = astronomical dark
Score
22
23
00
01
02
03
04
05
06
34
35
40
44
39
67
66
21
0
BEST WINDOW
Low cloud
5%
2%
0%
1%
4%
0%
3%
18%
31%
Mid cloud
2%
1%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
High cloud
95%
94%
81%
66%
75%
5%
2%
1%
30%
Transparency
0.45
0.39
0.31
0.28
0.25
0.23
0.22
0.20
0.20
Seeing
0.93
0.93
0.94
0.94
0.97
0.95
0.98
1.00
0.99
Moon clear
down
down
down
down
down
down
down
down
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
22 Poor · 34/100
Starting from
100
Cloud
−55
Transparency
−10
Seeing
−1
Moonlight
−0
Darkness
−0
Score
34
CLOUD 95% LOW 5% MID 2% HIGH 95% SUN -38.2° MOON -36.7° / 0% WIND 3 TEMP 27°
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
Why thin high cloud ruins long exposures

Cirrus you can barely see will halo your bright stars, lift your background and vary between frames. Visual observers shrug it off. Long exposures integrate it, so it accumulates.

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 00:00 · OBSERVE 00:30–05:30 · 5H · MEAN 50

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

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TWILIGHT BEGINS 05:30
SET UP 22:00 · OBSERVE 22:30–06:30 · 8H · MEAN 54

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

2200020406
CLOUD RETURNS 06:30MOONLIGHT IGNORED FOR THIS TARGET
SET UP 03:00 · OBSERVE 03:30–05:30 · 2H · MEAN 62

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

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HIGH CLOUD CLEARS 03:30TWILIGHT BEGINS 05:30
SET UP 03:00 · OBSERVE 03:30–05:30 · 2H · MEAN 52

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

2200020406
HIGH CLOUD CLEARS 03:30TWILIGHT BEGINS 05:30
SET UP 03:00 · OBSERVE 03:30–05:30 · 2H · MEAN 71

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

2200020406
HIGH CLOUD CLEARS 03:30TWILIGHT BEGINS 05:30
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The next week of nights

Tonight · 12 Aug
67
Good
MOON 0%
23:30–05:30
Tomorrow · 13 Aug
61
Good
MOON 2%
00:30–04:30
Friday · 14 Aug
51
Fair
MOON 6%
04:30–05:30
Saturday · 15 Aug
29
Poor
MOON 13%
Sunday · 16 Aug
27
Poor
MOON 21%
Monday · 17 Aug
31
Poor
MOON 30%
Tuesday · 18 Aug
31
Poor
MOON 39%
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About this forecast

Conditions for Dhanera, India 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 →