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Dogbo

6.799° N 1.781° E · 66 M

52 /100
PEAK

Marginal, but there is a 5 hours gap from 21:00.

BEST WINDOW 21:00–02:00 · ASTRO DARK 21:00–06:00 · MOON 0%

Transparency

0.33

Seeing

0.98

Cloud

27%

Moon

Fair tonight

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

Sky state

Lighter = daylight and twilight · unshaded = astronomical dark

Score

BEST WINDOW

Low cloud

15%

16%

12%

16%

21%

18%

30%

83%

100%

31%

Mid cloud

10%

19%

28%

10%

11%

High cloud

90%

95%

56%

38%

17%

83%

31%

85%

94%

72%

48%

Transparency

0.37

0.33

0.30

0.27

0.24

0.23

0.21

0.20

0.19

0.20

0.23

0.21

Seeing

0.77

0.80

0.84

0.88

0.86

0.91

0.94

0.96

0.97

0.95

0.98

1.00

Moon clear

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

19 Clouded out · 0/100

Starting from

100

Cloud

−60

Transparency

−10

Seeing

−2

Moonlight

−0

Darkness

−28

Score

CLOUD 92% LOW 15% MID 9% HIGH 90% SUN 1.3° MOON 3.3° / 0% WIND 4 TEMP 25°

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.

Deep-sky visualPlanetary & lunarWide-field imagingLong exposureMeteor watching

SET UP 20:30 · OBSERVE 21:00–02:00 · 5H · MEAN 45

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

19212301030507

HIGH CLOUD CLEARS 21:00CLOUD RETURNS 02:00

SET UP 20:30 · OBSERVE 21:00–02:00 · 5H · MEAN 52

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

19212301030507

HIGH CLOUD CLEARS 21:00CLOUD RETURNS 02:00MOONLIGHT IGNORED FOR THIS TARGET

SET UP 21:30 · OBSERVE 22:00–00:00 · 2H · MEAN 48

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

19212301030507

HIGH CLOUD CLEARS 22:00CLOUD RETURNS 00:00

SET UP 21:30 · OBSERVE 22:00–00:00 · 2H · MEAN 37

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

19212301030507

HIGH CLOUD CLEARS 22:00CLOUD RETURNS 00:00

SET UP 20:30 · OBSERVE 21:00–02:00 · 5H · MEAN 44

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

19212301030507

HIGH CLOUD CLEARS 21:00CLOUD RETURNS 02:00

The next week of nights

Tonight · 12 Aug

Fair

MOON 0%
21:00–02:00

Tomorrow · 13 Aug

Poor

MOON 2%

Friday · 14 Aug

Good

MOON 6%
21:00–04:00

Saturday · 15 Aug

Clouded out

MOON 13%

Sunday · 16 Aug

Clouded out

MOON 21%

Monday · 17 Aug

Poor

MOON 30%

Tuesday · 18 Aug

Clouded out

MOON 39%

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About this forecast

Conditions for Dogbo, Benin 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 →