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Harrismith

-28.273° S   29.130° E  ·  1643 M
32 /100
PEAK
Nothing usable opens up tonight.
NO USABLE WINDOW · ASTRO DARK 19:00–06:00 · MOON 0%
Transparency
0.31
Seeing
0.88
Cloud
49%
Moon
0%

Poor tonight

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

Sky state
Lighter = daylight and twilight  ·  unshaded = astronomical dark
Score
18
19
20
21
22
23
00
01
02
03
04
05
06
07
0
32
6
5
4
6
12
20
9
4
0
0
0
0
Low cloud
63%
49%
91%
91%
92%
89%
73%
58%
77%
88%
100%
99%
100%
100%
Mid cloud
13%
1%
1%
1%
1%
1%
0%
0%
0%
1%
1%
1%
2%
2%
High cloud
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
Transparency
0.37
0.31
0.26
0.25
0.24
0.24
0.25
0.24
0.22
0.21
0.23
0.26
0.26
0.28
Seeing
0.60
0.55
0.55
0.58
0.58
0.60
0.65
0.73
0.78
0.81
0.82
0.85
0.88
0.83
Moon clear
down
down
down
down
down
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
18 Clouded out · 0/100
Starting from
100
Cloud
−67
Transparency
−8
Seeing
−2
Moonlight
−0
Darkness
−22
Score
0
CLOUD 67% LOW 63% MID 13% HIGH 0% SUN -5.1° MOON -5.0° / 0% WIND 6 TEMP 6°
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 18:30 · OBSERVE 19:00–20:00 · 1H · MEAN 35

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

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CLOUD BREAKS 19:00CLOUD RETURNS 20:00
NO USABLE WINDOW FOR THIS TARGET TONIGHT

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

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CLOUD NEVER DROPS BELOW 49%
NO USABLE WINDOW FOR THIS TARGET TONIGHT

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

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CLOUD NEVER DROPS BELOW 49%
NO USABLE WINDOW FOR THIS TARGET TONIGHT

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

18202200020406
CLOUD NEVER DROPS BELOW 49%
NO USABLE WINDOW FOR THIS TARGET TONIGHT

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

18202200020406
CLOUD NEVER DROPS BELOW 49%
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The next week of nights

Tonight · 12 Aug
32
Poor
MOON 0%
Tomorrow · 13 Aug
75
Excellent
MOON 2%
19:00–06:00
Friday · 14 Aug
82
Excellent
MOON 6%
19:00–06:00
Saturday · 15 Aug
87
Excellent
MOON 13%
20:00–21:00
Sunday · 16 Aug
78
Excellent
MOON 21%
02:00–03:00
Monday · 17 Aug
73
Good
MOON 30%
20:00–21:00
Tuesday · 18 Aug
73
Good
MOON 39%
20:00–21:00
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About this forecast

Conditions for Harrismith, South Africa 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 →