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Gununo

6.925° N   37.653° E  ·  1932 M
49 /100
PEAK
Marginal, but there is a 3 hours gap from 00:00.
BEST WINDOW 00:00–03:00 · ASTRO DARK 21:00–06:00 · MOON 0%
Transparency
0.31
Seeing
1.00
Cloud
39%
Moon
0%

Fair tonight

Hour by hour, local to Gununo. 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
3
36
13
44
49
44
24
41
46
2
0
BEST WINDOW
Low cloud
1%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
1%
1%
12%
Mid cloud
100%
26%
84%
28%
20%
23%
68%
29%
19%
3%
16%
High cloud
90%
57%
31%
26%
25%
35%
21%
38%
40%
37%
25%
Transparency
0.17
0.19
0.19
0.20
0.21
0.21
0.22
0.25
0.29
0.31
0.30
Seeing
1.00
1.00
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
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 Clouded out · 3/100
Starting from
100
Cloud
−95
Transparency
−2
Seeing
−0
Moonlight
−0
Darkness
−0
Score
3
CLOUD 100% LOW 1% MID 100% HIGH 90% SUN -32.5° MOON -30.6° / 0% WIND 1 TEMP 17°
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
Why thin high cloud ruins long exposures

Cirrus you can barely see will halo your bright stars, lift your background and vary between frames. Visual observers shrug it off. Long exposures integrate it, so it accumulates.

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 00:00–03:00 · 3H · MEAN 44

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

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CLOUD BREAKS 00:00CLOUD RETURNS 03:00
SET UP 23:30 · OBSERVE 00:00–03:00 · 3H · MEAN 56

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

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CLOUD BREAKS 00:00CLOUD RETURNS 03:00MOONLIGHT IGNORED FOR THIS TARGET
SET UP 23:30 · OBSERVE 00:00–03:00 · 3H · MEAN 38

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

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CLOUD BREAKS 00:00CLOUD RETURNS 03:00
NO USABLE WINDOW FOR THIS TARGET TONIGHT

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

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CONDITIONS STAY BELOW THE USABLE THRESHOLD
SET UP 23:30 · OBSERVE 00:00–03:00 · 3H · MEAN 43

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

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

Tonight · 12 Aug
49
Fair
MOON 0%
00:00–03:00
Tomorrow · 13 Aug
34
Poor
MOON 2%
Friday · 14 Aug
47
Fair
MOON 6%
03:00–06:00
Saturday · 15 Aug
33
Poor
MOON 13%
Sunday · 16 Aug
49
Fair
MOON 21%
03:00–04:00
Monday · 17 Aug
62
Good
MOON 30%
21:00–22:00
Tuesday · 18 Aug
60
Good
MOON 39%
21:00–22:00
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About this forecast

Conditions for Gununo, 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 →