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Germantown

39.173° N   77.272° W  ·  137 M
70 /100
PEAK
Worth setting up — 7 hours of workable sky from 22:00.
BEST WINDOW 22:00–05:00 · ASTRO DARK 22:00–05:00 · MOON 0%
Transparency
0.42
Seeing
0.93
Cloud
2%
Moon
0%

Good tonight

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

Sky state
Lighter = daylight and twilight  ·  unshaded = astronomical dark
Score
20
21
22
23
00
01
02
03
04
05
06
0
11
40
51
50
52
70
69
65
49
0
BEST WINDOW
Low cloud
33%
1%
1%
4%
9%
7%
2%
1%
5%
3%
1%
Mid cloud
47%
4%
4%
3%
13%
23%
1%
1%
0%
0%
1%
High cloud
79%
93%
79%
48%
27%
5%
0%
2%
5%
0%
0%
Transparency
0.37
0.42
0.41
0.39
0.36
0.34
0.33
0.32
0.32
0.31
0.30
Seeing
0.67
0.84
0.88
0.92
0.91
0.92
0.93
0.89
0.87
0.87
0.90
Moon clear
0%
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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
20 Clouded out · 0/100
Starting from
100
Cloud
−78
Transparency
−6
Seeing
−1
Moonlight
−0
Darkness
−15
Score
0
CLOUD 89% LOW 33% MID 47% HIGH 79% SUN 0.8° MOON 4.2° / 0% WIND 5 TEMP 26°
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 21:30 · OBSERVE 22:00–06:00 · 8H · MEAN 55

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

202200020406
ASTRONOMICAL DARK FROM 22:00TWILIGHT BEGINS 06:00
SET UP 21:30 · OBSERVE 22:00–06:00 · 8H · MEAN 66

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

202200020406
ASTRONOMICAL DARK FROM 22:00TWILIGHT BEGINS 06:00MOONLIGHT IGNORED FOR THIS TARGET
SET UP 22:30 · OBSERVE 23:00–06:00 · 7H · MEAN 53

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

202200020406
HIGH CLOUD CLEARS 23:00TWILIGHT BEGINS 06:00
SET UP 00:30 · OBSERVE 01:00–06:00 · 5H · MEAN 48

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

202200020406
HIGH CLOUD CLEARS 01:00TWILIGHT BEGINS 06:00
SET UP 21:30 · OBSERVE 22:00–06:00 · 8H · MEAN 57

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

202200020406
ASTRONOMICAL DARK FROM 22:00TWILIGHT BEGINS 06:00
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The next week of nights

Tonight · 12 Aug
70
Good
MOON 0%
22:00–05:00
Tomorrow · 13 Aug
62
Good
MOON 3%
22:00–00:00
Friday · 14 Aug
31
Poor
MOON 7%
Saturday · 15 Aug
61
Good
MOON 15%
02:00–03:00
Sunday · 16 Aug
25
Poor
MOON 23%
Monday · 17 Aug
15
Poor
MOON 32%
Tuesday · 18 Aug
77
Excellent
MOON 42%
02:00–03:00
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About this forecast

Conditions for Germantown, Maryland, United States 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 →