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Jacobabad

28.282° N   68.438° E  ·  60 M
78 /100
PEAK
A genuinely good night — 5 hours of clear, dark sky from 21:00.
BEST WINDOW 21:00–02:00 · ASTRO DARK 21:00–05:00 · MOON 0%
Transparency
0.85
Seeing
0.98
Cloud
16%
Moon
0%

Excellent tonight

Hour by hour, local to Jacobabad. 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
43
45
78
57
49
10
50
36
19
0
BEST WINDOW
Low cloud
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
Mid cloud
1%
1%
15%
28%
39%
95%
22%
20%
16%
6%
High cloud
98%
91%
3%
27%
27%
37%
48%
88%
88%
45%
Transparency
0.83
0.83
0.85
0.83
0.79
0.75
0.70
0.66
0.64
0.60
Seeing
0.98
0.94
0.89
0.86
0.88
0.85
0.88
0.96
0.98
1.00
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 Fair · 43/100
Starting from
100
Cloud
−54
Transparency
−3
Seeing
−0
Moonlight
−0
Darkness
−0
Score
43
CLOUD 98% LOW 0% MID 1% HIGH 98% SUN -23.0° MOON -21.7° / 0% WIND 2 TEMP 34°
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 20:30 · OBSERVE 21:00–02:00 · 5H · MEAN 53

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

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CLOUD RETURNS 02:00
SET UP 20:30 · OBSERVE 21:00–02:00 · 5H · MEAN 54

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

2123010305
CLOUD RETURNS 02:00MOONLIGHT IGNORED FOR THIS TARGET
SET UP 22:30 · OBSERVE 23:00–02:00 · 3H · 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 23:00CLOUD RETURNS 02:00
SET UP 22:30 · OBSERVE 23:00–01:00 · 2H · MEAN 57

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

2123010305
HIGH CLOUD CLEARS 23:00
SET UP 21:30 · OBSERVE 22:00–02:00 · 4H · MEAN 53

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

2123010305
CLOUD RETURNS 02:00
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The next week of nights

Tonight · 12 Aug
78
Excellent
MOON 0%
21:00–02:00
Tomorrow · 13 Aug
90
Excellent
MOON 2%
21:00–05:00
Friday · 14 Aug
91
Excellent
MOON 6%
21:00–05:00
Saturday · 15 Aug
92
Excellent
MOON 13%
23:00–00:00
Sunday · 16 Aug
91
Excellent
MOON 21%
23:00–00:00
Monday · 17 Aug
92
Excellent
MOON 30%
23:00–00:00
Tuesday · 18 Aug
82
Excellent
MOON 39%
23:00–00:00
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About this forecast

Conditions for Jacobabad, Pakistan 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 →