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Kabacan

7.107° N   124.829° E  ·  24 M
53 /100
PEAK
Marginal, but there is a 2 hours gap from 03:00.
BEST WINDOW 03:00–05:00 · ASTRO DARK 02:00–05:00 · MOON 0%
Transparency
0.33
Seeing
1.00
Cloud
17%
Moon
0%

Fair tonight

Hour by hour, local to Kabacan. 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
32
35
53
17
0
BEST WINDOW
Low cloud
5%
4%
0%
0%
0%
Mid cloud
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
High cloud
99%
91%
46%
17%
15%
Transparency
0.33
0.32
0.28
0.26
0.28
Seeing
1.00
1.00
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 Poor · 32/100
Starting from
100
Cloud
−57
Transparency
−12
Seeing
−0
Moonlight
−0
Darkness
−0
Score
32
CLOUD 99% LOW 5% MID 0% HIGH 99% SUN -50.1° MOON -51.2° / 0% WIND 1 TEMP 26°
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 03:30 · OBSERVE 04:00–05:00 · 1H · MEAN 51

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

020406
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
TWILIGHT BEGINS 06:00MOONLIGHT IGNORED FOR THIS TARGET
SET UP 03:30 · OBSERVE 04:00–05:00 · 1H · MEAN 43

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
CONDITIONS STAY BELOW THE USABLE THRESHOLD
SET UP 03:30 · OBSERVE 04:00–05:00 · 1H · MEAN 50

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
53
Fair
MOON 0%
03:00–05:00
Tomorrow · 13 Aug
73
Good
MOON 1%
20:00–00:00
Friday · 14 Aug
69
Good
MOON 5%
20:00–00:00
Saturday · 15 Aug
47
Fair
MOON 10%
02:00–03:00
Sunday · 16 Aug
33
Poor
MOON 19%
Monday · 17 Aug
27
Poor
MOON 28%
Tuesday · 18 Aug
26
Poor
MOON 37%
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About this forecast

Conditions for Kabacan, Philippines 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 →