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Kanifing

13.446° N 16.674° W · 12 M

53 /100
PEAK

Marginal, but there is a 3 hours gap from 03:00.

BEST WINDOW 03:00–06:00 · ASTRO DARK 21:00–06:00 · MOON 0%

Transparency

0.41

Seeing

0.79

Cloud

31%

Moon

Fair tonight

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

Sky state

Lighter = daylight and twilight · unshaded = astronomical dark

Score

BEST WINDOW

Low cloud

10%

11%

24%

33%

31%

28%

16%

30%

13%

20%

Mid cloud

23%

31%

41%

79%

50%

High cloud

63%

50%

25%

66%

24%

21%

22%

61%

20%

39%

41%

22%

28%

Transparency

0.40

0.38

0.36

0.37

0.38

0.39

0.40

0.41

0.39

0.36

0.35

0.33

0.32

Seeing

0.67

0.72

0.75

0.73

0.70

0.67

0.68

0.71

0.73

0.71

0.79

0.82

Moon clear

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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

19 Clouded out · 0/100

Starting from

100

Cloud

−53

Transparency

−11

Seeing

−3

Moonlight

−0

Darkness

−33

Score

CLOUD 74% LOW 10% MID 23% HIGH 63% SUN 6.3° MOON 8.7° / 0% WIND 5 TEMP 28°

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

Conditions for planets and the Moon

Seeing is everything. Darkness and moonlight barely matter, and a hazy, humid night that ruins deep-sky work is often the steadiest night of the year for planetary detail.

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.

Deep-sky visualPlanetary & lunarWide-field imagingLong exposureMeteor watching

SET UP 02:30 · OBSERVE 03:00–06:00 · 3H · MEAN 43

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

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HIGH CLOUD CLEARS 03:00TWILIGHT BEGINS 06:00

SET UP 02:30 · OBSERVE 03:00–07:00 · 4H · MEAN 48

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

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HIGH CLOUD CLEARS 03:00TWILIGHT BEGINS 07:00MOONLIGHT IGNORED FOR THIS TARGET

SET UP 02:30 · OBSERVE 03:00–05:00 · 2H · MEAN 42

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

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HIGH CLOUD CLEARS 03:00

SET UP 20:30 · OBSERVE 21:00–22:00 · 1H · MEAN 37

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

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HIGH CLOUD CLEARS 21:00CLOUD RETURNS 22:00

SET UP 02:30 · OBSERVE 03:00–06:00 · 3H · MEAN 43

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

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HIGH CLOUD CLEARS 03:00TWILIGHT BEGINS 06:00

The next week of nights

Tonight · 12 Aug

Fair

MOON 0%
03:00–06:00

Tomorrow · 13 Aug

Fair

MOON 2%
21:00–22:00

Friday · 14 Aug

Good

MOON 6%
00:00–06:00

Saturday · 15 Aug

Poor

MOON 13%

Sunday · 16 Aug

Poor

MOON 21%

Monday · 17 Aug

Poor

MOON 30%

Tuesday · 18 Aug

Clouded out

MOON 39%

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About this forecast

Conditions for Kanifing, Gambia 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 →