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Kadakkavoor

8.679° N   76.767° E  ·  15 M
50 /100
PEAK
Marginal, but there is a 3 hours gap from 22:30.
BEST WINDOW 22:30–01:30 · ASTRO DARK 22:30–05:30 · MOON 0%
Transparency
0.23
Seeing
0.89
Cloud
34%
Moon
0%

Fair tonight

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

Sky state
Lighter = daylight and twilight  ·  unshaded = astronomical dark
Score
22
23
00
01
02
03
04
05
06
50
44
42
10
37
13
4
3
0
BEST WINDOW
Low cloud
12%
16%
21%
79%
32%
66%
86%
81%
93%
Mid cloud
0%
6%
8%
11%
13%
16%
29%
16%
13%
High cloud
25%
31%
23%
26%
9%
47%
63%
64%
77%
Transparency
0.23
0.22
0.21
0.10
0.18
0.10
0.20
0.20
0.19
Seeing
0.80
0.81
0.84
0.89
0.82
0.86
0.70
0.87
0.84
Moon clear
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
22 Fair · 50/100
Starting from
100
Cloud
−24
Transparency
−23
Seeing
−3
Moonlight
−0
Darkness
−0
Score
50
CLOUD 34% LOW 12% MID 0% HIGH 25% SUN -52.3° MOON -50.8° / 0% WIND 4 TEMP 25°
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 22:00 · OBSERVE 22:30–01:30 · 3H · MEAN 45

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

2200020406
CLOUD RETURNS 01:30
SET UP 22:00 · OBSERVE 22:30–01:30 · 3H · MEAN 53

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

2200020406
CLOUD RETURNS 01:30MOONLIGHT IGNORED FOR THIS TARGET
SET UP 22:00 · OBSERVE 22:30–01:30 · 3H · MEAN 40

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

2200020406
CLOUD RETURNS 01:30
NO USABLE WINDOW FOR THIS TARGET TONIGHT

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

2200020406
CONDITIONS STAY BELOW THE USABLE THRESHOLD
SET UP 22:00 · OBSERVE 22:30–01:30 · 3H · MEAN 46

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

2200020406
CLOUD RETURNS 01:30
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The next week of nights

Tonight · 12 Aug
50
Fair
MOON 0%
22:30–01:30
Tomorrow · 13 Aug
33
Poor
MOON 2%
Friday · 14 Aug
49
Fair
MOON 6%
20:30–21:30
Saturday · 15 Aug
16
Poor
MOON 13%
Sunday · 16 Aug
28
Poor
MOON 21%
Monday · 17 Aug
19
Poor
MOON 30%
Tuesday · 18 Aug
33
Poor
MOON 39%
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About this forecast

Conditions for Kadakkavoor, India 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 →