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32.501° N   80.098° E  ·  4278 M
72 /100
PEAK
Worth setting up — 7 hours of workable sky from 00:00.
BEST WINDOW 00:00–07:00 · ASTRO DARK 00:00–07:00 · MOON 0%
Transparency
0.42
Seeing
1.00
Cloud
8%
Moon
0%

Good tonight

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

Sky state
Lighter = daylight and twilight  ·  unshaded = astronomical dark
Score
00
01
02
03
04
05
06
07
08
50
61
67
66
72
44
44
39
0
BEST WINDOW
Low cloud
6%
6%
2%
2%
0%
4%
6%
8%
13%
Mid cloud
2%
5%
7%
10%
3%
2%
10%
1%
1%
High cloud
52%
16%
4%
1%
5%
71%
59%
4%
2%
Transparency
0.37
0.34
0.35
0.37
0.39
0.41
0.42
0.42
0.43
Seeing
1.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
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
00 Fair · 50/100
Starting from
100
Cloud
−34
Transparency
−17
Seeing
−0
Moonlight
−0
Darkness
−0
Score
50
CLOUD 56% LOW 6% MID 2% HIGH 52% SUN -28.3° MOON -26.9° / 0% WIND 1 TEMP 12°
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 23:30 · OBSERVE 00:00–07:00 · 7H · MEAN 56

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

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TWILIGHT BEGINS 07:00
SET UP 23:30 · OBSERVE 00:00–08:00 · 8H · MEAN 68

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

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TWILIGHT BEGINS 08:00MOONLIGHT IGNORED FOR THIS TARGET
SET UP 23:30 · OBSERVE 00:00–05:00 · 5H · MEAN 57

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

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CLOUD RETURNS 05:00
SET UP 00:30 · OBSERVE 01:00–05:00 · 4H · MEAN 52

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

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HIGH CLOUD CLEARS 01:00CLOUD RETURNS 05:00
SET UP 23:30 · OBSERVE 00:00–07:00 · 7H · MEAN 56

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

0002040608
TWILIGHT BEGINS 07:00
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The next week of nights

Tonight · 12 Aug
72
Good
MOON 0%
00:00–07:00
Tomorrow · 13 Aug
56
Good
MOON 1%
03:00–07:00
Friday · 14 Aug
69
Good
MOON 5%
23:00–07:00
Saturday · 15 Aug
9
Clouded out
MOON 10%
Sunday · 16 Aug
58
Good
MOON 19%
02:00–03:00
Monday · 17 Aug
24
Poor
MOON 28%
Tuesday · 18 Aug
13
Clouded out
MOON 37%
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About this forecast

Conditions for Gar, China 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 →