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Hwacheon

38.107° N   127.706° E  ·  115 M
48 /100
PEAK
Marginal, but there is a 3 hours gap from 02:00.
BEST WINDOW 02:00–05:00 · ASTRO DARK 02:00–05:00 · MOON 0%
Transparency
0.21
Seeing
1.00
Cloud
42%
Moon
0%

Fair tonight

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

Sky state
Lighter = daylight and twilight  ·  unshaded = astronomical dark
Score
02
03
04
05
06
44
36
48
9
0
BEST WINDOW
Low cloud
3%
3%
8%
14%
40%
Mid cloud
2%
0%
0%
0%
0%
High cloud
58%
82%
41%
33%
38%
Transparency
0.21
0.19
0.19
0.18
0.18
Seeing
0.98
0.99
1.00
1.00
1.00
Moon clear
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
02 Fair · 44/100
Starting from
100
Cloud
−35
Transparency
−21
Seeing
−0
Moonlight
−0
Darkness
−0
Score
44
CLOUD 59% LOW 3% MID 2% HIGH 58% SUN -33.3° MOON -32.8° / 0% WIND 2 TEMP 19°
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 03:30 · OBSERVE 04:00–05:00 · 1H · MEAN 47

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

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HIGH CLOUD CLEARS 04:00TWILIGHT BEGINS 05:00
SET UP 01:30 · OBSERVE 02:00–06:00 · 4H · MEAN 49

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

020406
CLOUD RETURNS 06:00MOONLIGHT IGNORED FOR THIS TARGET
SET UP 03:30 · OBSERVE 04:00–05:00 · 1H · MEAN 39

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

020406
HIGH CLOUD CLEARS 04:00TWILIGHT BEGINS 05:00
NO USABLE WINDOW FOR THIS TARGET TONIGHT

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

020406
CLOUD NEVER DROPS BELOW 42%
SET UP 03:30 · OBSERVE 04:00–05:00 · 1H · MEAN 47

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

020406
HIGH CLOUD CLEARS 04:00TWILIGHT BEGINS 05:00
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The next week of nights

Tonight · 12 Aug
48
Fair
MOON 0%
02:00–05:00
Tomorrow · 13 Aug
28
Poor
MOON 1%
Friday · 14 Aug
13
Clouded out
MOON 5%
Saturday · 15 Aug
3
Clouded out
MOON 8%
Sunday · 16 Aug
0
Clouded out
MOON 19%
Monday · 17 Aug
63
Good
MOON 28%
21:00–22:00
Tuesday · 18 Aug
33
Poor
MOON 37%
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About this forecast

Conditions for Hwacheon, South Korea 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 →