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Kanbe

16.707° N   96.002° E  ·  12 M
51 /100
PEAK
Marginal, but there is a 2 hours gap from 00:30.
BEST WINDOW 00:30–02:30 · ASTRO DARK 23:30–05:30 · MOON 0%
Transparency
0.20
Seeing
1.00
Cloud
21%
Moon
0%

Fair tonight

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

Sky state
Lighter = daylight and twilight  ·  unshaded = astronomical dark
Score
23
00
01
02
03
04
05
29
47
51
2
46
0
0
BEST WINDOW
Low cloud
6%
1%
9%
71%
5%
97%
99%
Mid cloud
33%
9%
13%
98%
13%
79%
45%
High cloud
63%
45%
1%
11%
23%
90%
71%
Transparency
0.20
0.19
0.10
0.10
0.10
0.10
0.10
Seeing
0.98
1.00
1.00
0.92
0.94
1.00
1.00
Moon clear
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
23 Poor · 29/100
Starting from
100
Cloud
−57
Transparency
−14
Seeing
−0
Moonlight
−0
Darkness
−0
Score
29
CLOUD 73% LOW 6% MID 33% HIGH 63% SUN -56.7° MOON -55.4° / 0% WIND 2 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
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 00:00 · OBSERVE 00:30–02:30 · 2H · MEAN 48

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

23010305
HIGH CLOUD CLEARS 00:30CLOUD RETURNS 02:30
SET UP 23:00 · OBSERVE 23:30–02:30 · 3H · MEAN 53

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

23010305
CLOUD RETURNS 02:30MOONLIGHT IGNORED FOR THIS TARGET
SET UP 00:00 · OBSERVE 00:30–02:30 · 2H · MEAN 42

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

23010305
HIGH CLOUD CLEARS 00:30CLOUD RETURNS 02:30
SET UP 01:00 · OBSERVE 01:30–02:30 · 1H · MEAN 36

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

23010305
HIGH CLOUD CLEARS 01:30CLOUD RETURNS 02:30
SET UP 00:00 · OBSERVE 00:30–02:30 · 2H · MEAN 49

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

23010305
HIGH CLOUD CLEARS 00:30CLOUD RETURNS 02:30
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The next week of nights

Tonight · 12 Aug
51
Fair
MOON 0%
00:30–02:30
Tomorrow · 13 Aug
12
Clouded out
MOON 2%
Friday · 14 Aug
25
Poor
MOON 6%
Saturday · 15 Aug
0
Clouded out
MOON 12%
Sunday · 16 Aug
32
Poor
MOON 19%
Monday · 17 Aug
29
Poor
MOON 28%
Tuesday · 18 Aug
28
Poor
MOON 37%
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About this forecast

Conditions for Kanbe, Myanmar (Burma) 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 →