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Dīla

6.417° N   38.317° E  ·  1594 M
73 /100
PEAK
Worth setting up — 2 hours of workable sky from 01:00.
BEST WINDOW 01:00–03:00 · ASTRO DARK 21:00–06:00 · MOON 0%
Transparency
0.57
Seeing
1.00
Cloud
6%
Moon
0%

Good tonight

Hour by hour, local to Dīla. 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
15
14
56
30
73
65
31
31
35
0
0
BEST WINDOW
Low cloud
3%
0%
0%
1%
0%
1%
2%
7%
4%
8%
13%
Mid cloud
83%
85%
15%
67%
5%
14%
64%
49%
33%
10%
20%
High cloud
25%
34%
24%
3%
0%
0%
1%
46%
68%
27%
16%
Transparency
0.33
0.36
0.38
0.42
0.43
0.38
0.41
0.52
0.57
0.55
0.50
Seeing
0.93
0.97
1.00
1.00
0.96
1.00
1.00
1.00
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 · 15/100
Starting from
100
Cloud
−79
Transparency
−6
Seeing
−0
Moonlight
−0
Darkness
−0
Score
15
CLOUD 87% LOW 3% MID 83% HIGH 25% SUN -33.3° MOON -31.4° / 0% WIND 3 TEMP 18°
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
Conditions for planets and the Moon

Seeing is everything. Darkness and moonlight barely matter, and a hazy, humid night that ruins deep-sky work is often the steadiest night of the year for planetary detail.

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 00:30 · OBSERVE 01:00–03:00 · 2H · MEAN 70

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

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CLOUD BREAKS 01:00CLOUD RETURNS 03:00
SET UP 22:30 · OBSERVE 23:00–04:00 · 5H · MEAN 60

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

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CLOUD BREAKS 23:00MOONLIGHT IGNORED FOR THIS TARGET
SET UP 00:30 · OBSERVE 01:00–03:00 · 2H · MEAN 66

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

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CLOUD BREAKS 01:00CLOUD RETURNS 03:00
SET UP 00:30 · OBSERVE 01:00–03:00 · 2H · MEAN 57

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

212301030507
CLOUD BREAKS 01:00CLOUD RETURNS 03:00
SET UP 00:30 · OBSERVE 01:00–03:00 · 2H · MEAN 72

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

212301030507
CLOUD BREAKS 01:00CLOUD RETURNS 03:00
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The next week of nights

Tonight · 12 Aug
73
Good
MOON 0%
01:00–03:00
Tomorrow · 13 Aug
41
Fair
MOON 2%
20:00–21:00
Friday · 14 Aug
63
Good
MOON 6%
03:00–06:00
Saturday · 15 Aug
42
Fair
MOON 13%
21:00–22:00
Sunday · 16 Aug
62
Good
MOON 21%
03:00–04:00
Monday · 17 Aug
51
Fair
MOON 30%
21:00–22:00
Tuesday · 18 Aug
52
Fair
MOON 39%
21:00–22:00
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About this forecast

Conditions for Dīla, 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 →