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Huruta

8.150° N   39.350° E  ·  2030 M
60 /100
PEAK
Worth setting up — 2 hours of workable sky from 21:00.
BEST WINDOW 21:00–23:00 · ASTRO DARK 21:00–06:00 · MOON 0%
Transparency
0.45
Seeing
0.94
Cloud
27%
Moon
0%

Good tonight

Hour by hour, local to Huruta. 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
60
39
34
26
26
13
2
4
15
0
BEST WINDOW
Low cloud
0%
5%
9%
2%
9%
13%
36%
1%
0%
0%
Mid cloud
6%
5%
13%
34%
28%
65%
100%
100%
86%
45%
High cloud
22%
71%
73%
85%
88%
83%
86%
47%
13%
13%
Transparency
0.45
0.39
0.34
0.40
0.41
0.10
0.10
0.10
0.32
0.32
Seeing
0.70
0.72
0.78
0.85
0.87
0.94
0.92
0.81
0.81
0.94
Moon clear
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
21 Good · 60/100
Starting from
100
Cloud
−17
Transparency
−18
Seeing
−5
Moonlight
−0
Darkness
−0
Score
60
CLOUD 27% LOW 0% MID 6% HIGH 22% SUN -33.5° MOON -31.7° / 0% WIND 5 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
When a clear gap is worth driving for

Ask how long the gap is relative to your setup time and your exposure length. A two-hour gap is a real session for a visual observer and close to worthless for someone doing four-minute subs on a target that needs three hours.

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 20:30 · OBSERVE 21:00–23:00 · 2H · MEAN 50

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

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SET UP 20:30 · OBSERVE 21:00–00:00 · 3H · MEAN 46

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

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MOONLIGHT IGNORED FOR THIS TARGET
SET UP 20:30 · OBSERVE 21:00–22:00 · 1H · MEAN 57

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

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CLOUD RETURNS 22:00
SET UP 20:30 · OBSERVE 21:00–22:00 · 1H · MEAN 46

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

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CLOUD RETURNS 22:00
SET UP 20:30 · OBSERVE 21:00–23:00 · 2H · MEAN 50

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

2123010305
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The next week of nights

Tonight · 12 Aug
60
Good
MOON 0%
21:00–23:00
Tomorrow · 13 Aug
58
Good
MOON 2%
22:00–04:00
Friday · 14 Aug
52
Fair
MOON 6%
20:00–22:00
Saturday · 15 Aug
68
Good
MOON 13%
21:00–22:00
Sunday · 16 Aug
55
Good
MOON 21%
03:00–04:00
Monday · 17 Aug
68
Good
MOON 30%
21:00–22:00
Tuesday · 18 Aug
64
Good
MOON 39%
21:00–22:00
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About this forecast

Conditions for Huruta, 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 →