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Imara Daima Estate

-1.323° S   36.880° E  ·  1627 M
75 /100
PEAK
A genuinely good night — 9 hours of clear, dark sky from 21:00.
BEST WINDOW 21:00–06:00 · ASTRO DARK 21:00–06:00 · MOON 0%
Transparency
0.96
Seeing
1.00
Cloud
8%
Moon
0%

Excellent tonight

Hour by hour, local to Imara Daima Estate. 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
07
35
43
48
43
55
72
64
73
75
22
0
BEST WINDOW
Low cloud
12%
3%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
Mid cloud
16%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
High cloud
91%
95%
89%
98%
70%
31%
45%
25%
16%
8%
3%
Transparency
0.96
0.92
0.86
0.82
0.76
0.67
0.63
0.61
0.55
0.49
0.47
Seeing
0.77
0.81
0.99
1.00
0.98
1.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
Moon clear
down
down
down
down
down
down
down
down
down
down
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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
21 Fair · 35/100
Starting from
100
Cloud
−62
Transparency
−1
Seeing
−2
Moonlight
−0
Darkness
−0
Score
35
CLOUD 93% LOW 12% MID 16% HIGH 91% SUN -34.6° MOON -32.8° / 0% WIND 4 TEMP 21°
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 21:30 · OBSERVE 22:00–06:00 · 8H · MEAN 57

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

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TWILIGHT BEGINS 06:00
SET UP 21:30 · OBSERVE 22:00–07:00 · 9H · MEAN 62

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

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TWILIGHT BEGINS 07:00MOONLIGHT IGNORED FOR THIS TARGET
SET UP 00:30 · OBSERVE 01:00–06:00 · 5H · MEAN 59

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

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HIGH CLOUD CLEARS 01:00TWILIGHT BEGINS 06:00
SET UP 01:30 · OBSERVE 02:00–06:00 · 4H · MEAN 54

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

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HIGH CLOUD CLEARS 02:00TWILIGHT BEGINS 06:00
SET UP 00:30 · OBSERVE 01:00–06:00 · 5H · MEAN 64

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

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HIGH CLOUD CLEARS 01:00TWILIGHT BEGINS 06:00
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The next week of nights

Tonight · 12 Aug
75
Excellent
MOON 0%
21:00–06:00
Tomorrow · 13 Aug
98
Excellent
MOON 2%
20:00–06:00
Friday · 14 Aug
93
Excellent
MOON 6%
21:00–06:00
Saturday · 15 Aug
83
Excellent
MOON 13%
21:00–22:00
Sunday · 16 Aug
69
Good
MOON 21%
03:00–04:00
Monday · 17 Aug
7
Clouded out
MOON 30%
Tuesday · 18 Aug
54
Fair
MOON 39%
03:00–04:00
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About this forecast

Conditions for Imara Daima Estate, Kenya 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 →