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Engaru

44.048° N   143.546° E  ·  82 M
66 /100
PEAK
Worth setting up — 6 hours of workable sky from 21:00.
BEST WINDOW 21:00–03:00 · ASTRO DARK 21:00–03:00 · MOON 1%
Transparency
0.37
Seeing
0.92
Cloud
2%
Moon
1%

Good tonight

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

Sky state
Lighter = daylight and twilight  ·  unshaded = astronomical dark
Score
19
20
21
22
23
00
01
02
03
04
0
47
66
63
62
61
63
64
46
0
BEST WINDOW
Low cloud
2%
1%
3%
6%
9%
9%
5%
2%
2%
4%
Mid cloud
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
High cloud
0%
2%
0%
2%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
Transparency
0.41
0.37
0.32
0.29
0.27
0.24
0.21
0.20
0.19
0.19
Seeing
0.72
0.76
0.76
0.78
0.81
0.84
0.88
0.89
0.92
0.94
Moon clear
1%
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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
19 Clouded out · 0/100
Starting from
100
Cloud
−2
Transparency
−23
Seeing
−5
Moonlight
−0
Darkness
−70
Score
0
CLOUD 2% LOW 2% MID 0% HIGH 0% SUN -4.9° MOON 0.1° / 1% WIND 5 TEMP 24°
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 19:30 · OBSERVE 20:00–04:00 · 8H · MEAN 59

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

1921230103
MOON SETS BY 20:00TWILIGHT BEGINS 04:00
SET UP 19:30 · OBSERVE 20:00–04:00 · 8H · MEAN 74

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

1921230103
TWILIGHT BEGINS 04:00MOONLIGHT IGNORED FOR THIS TARGET
SET UP 19:30 · OBSERVE 20:00–04:00 · 8H · MEAN 56

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

1921230103
MOON SETS BY 20:00TWILIGHT BEGINS 04:00
SET UP 19:30 · OBSERVE 20:00–03:00 · 7H · MEAN 49

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

1921230103
MOON SETS BY 20:00TWILIGHT BEGINS 03:00
SET UP 19:30 · OBSERVE 20:00–04:00 · 8H · MEAN 64

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

1921230103
MOON SETS BY 20:00TWILIGHT BEGINS 04:00
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The next week of nights

Tonight · 13 Aug
66
Good
MOON 1%
21:00–03:00
Tomorrow · 14 Aug
62
Good
MOON 5%
23:00–02:00
Saturday · 15 Aug
49
Fair
MOON 8%
21:00–22:00
Sunday · 16 Aug
69
Good
MOON 19%
21:00–22:00
Monday · 17 Aug
27
Poor
MOON 28%
Tuesday · 18 Aug
35
Fair
MOON 37%
21:00–22:00
Wednesday · 19 Aug
60
Good
MOON 47%
21:00–22:00
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About this forecast

Conditions for Engaru, Japan 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 →