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Gympie

-26.190° S   152.665° E  ·  69 M
80 /100
PEAK
A genuinely good night — 2 hours of clear, dark sky from 04:00.
BEST WINDOW 04:00–06:00 · ASTRO DARK 03:00–06:00 · MOON 0%
Transparency
0.60
Seeing
0.87
Cloud
0%
Moon
0%

Excellent tonight

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

Sky state
Lighter = daylight and twilight  ·  unshaded = astronomical dark
Score
03
04
05
06
26
80
79
0
BEST WINDOW
Low cloud
0%
0%
0%
0%
Mid cloud
75%
0%
0%
0%
High cloud
0%
0%
0%
0%
Transparency
0.60
0.57
0.55
0.55
Seeing
0.83
0.84
0.87
0.85
Moon clear
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
03 Poor · 26/100
Starting from
100
Cloud
−68
Transparency
−5
Seeing
−1
Moonlight
−0
Darkness
−0
Score
26
CLOUD 75% LOW 0% MID 75% HIGH 0% SUN -45.4° MOON -47.0° / 0% WIND 4 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 03:30 · OBSERVE 04:00–06:00 · 2H · MEAN 82

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

0305
CLOUD BREAKS 04:00TWILIGHT BEGINS 06:00
SET UP 03:30 · OBSERVE 04:00–06:00 · 2H · MEAN 86

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

0305
CLOUD BREAKS 04:00TWILIGHT BEGINS 06:00MOONLIGHT IGNORED FOR THIS TARGET
SET UP 03:30 · OBSERVE 04:00–06:00 · 2H · MEAN 79

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

0305
CLOUD BREAKS 04:00TWILIGHT BEGINS 06:00
SET UP 03:30 · OBSERVE 04:00–06:00 · 2H · MEAN 72

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

0305
CLOUD BREAKS 04:00TWILIGHT BEGINS 06:00
SET UP 03:30 · OBSERVE 04:00–06:00 · 2H · MEAN 86

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

0305
CLOUD BREAKS 04:00TWILIGHT BEGINS 06:00
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The next week of nights

Tonight · 12 Aug
80
Excellent
MOON 0%
04:00–06:00
Tomorrow · 13 Aug
81
Excellent
MOON 1%
19:00–06:00
Friday · 14 Aug
73
Good
MOON 5%
19:00–06:00
Saturday · 15 Aug
65
Good
MOON 8%
22:00–23:00
Sunday · 16 Aug
56
Good
MOON 19%
22:00–23:00
Monday · 17 Aug
9
Clouded out
MOON 28%
Tuesday · 18 Aug
60
Good
MOON 37%
04:00–05:00
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About this forecast

Conditions for Gympie, Queensland, Australia 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 →