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Ile-Ife

7.482° N   4.560° E  ·  295 M
42 /100
PEAK
Marginal, but there is a 1 hour gap from 22:00.
BEST WINDOW 22:00–23:00 · ASTRO DARK 21:00–06:00 · MOON 0%
Transparency
0.26
Seeing
1.00
Cloud
48%
Moon
0%

Fair tonight

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

Sky state
Lighter = daylight and twilight  ·  unshaded = astronomical dark
Score
19
20
21
22
23
00
01
02
03
04
05
06
07
0
17
15
42
34
22
0
2
2
4
1
0
0
BEST WINDOW
Low cloud
13%
56%
71%
25%
27%
32%
100%
92%
92%
86%
98%
96%
96%
Mid cloud
10%
11%
5%
2%
1%
1%
1%
2%
6%
13%
16%
1%
3%
High cloud
39%
38%
35%
29%
55%
94%
98%
95%
99%
98%
98%
98%
97%
Transparency
0.29
0.26
0.24
0.23
0.19
0.17
0.16
0.18
0.18
0.17
0.17
0.17
0.20
Seeing
0.85
0.88
0.90
0.91
0.95
1.00
1.00
0.97
1.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
Moon clear
0%
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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
19 Clouded out · 0/100
Starting from
100
Cloud
−38
Transparency
−18
Seeing
−2
Moonlight
−0
Darkness
−43
Score
0
CLOUD 51% LOW 13% MID 10% HIGH 39% SUN -1.2° MOON 1.1° / 0% WIND 4 TEMP 24°
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 21:30 · OBSERVE 22:00–23:00 · 1H · MEAN 41

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

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CLOUD BREAKS 22:00CLOUD RETURNS 23:00
SET UP 21:30 · OBSERVE 22:00–00:00 · 2H · MEAN 46

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

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CLOUD BREAKS 22:00CLOUD RETURNS 00:00MOONLIGHT IGNORED FOR THIS TARGET
SET UP 21:30 · OBSERVE 22:00–23:00 · 1H · MEAN 36

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

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CLOUD BREAKS 22:00CLOUD RETURNS 23:00
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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CLOUD NEVER DROPS BELOW 48%
SET UP 21:30 · OBSERVE 22:00–23:00 · 1H · MEAN 40

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

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CLOUD BREAKS 22:00CLOUD RETURNS 23:00
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The next week of nights

Tonight · 12 Aug
42
Fair
MOON 0%
22:00–23:00
Tomorrow · 13 Aug
0
Clouded out
MOON 2%
Friday · 14 Aug
16
Poor
MOON 6%
Saturday · 15 Aug
0
Clouded out
MOON 13%
Sunday · 16 Aug
0
Clouded out
MOON 21%
Monday · 17 Aug
0
Clouded out
MOON 30%
Tuesday · 18 Aug
0
Clouded out
MOON 39%
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About this forecast

Conditions for Ile-Ife, Nigeria 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 →