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Karachayevsk

43.772° N   41.914° E  ·  924 M
62 /100
PEAK
Worth setting up — 6 hours of workable sky from 22:00.
BEST WINDOW 22:00–04:00 · ASTRO DARK 22:00–04:00 · MOON 0%
Transparency
0.23
Seeing
1.00
Cloud
4%
Moon
0%

Good tonight

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

Sky state
Lighter = daylight and twilight  ·  unshaded = astronomical dark
Score
20
21
22
23
00
01
02
03
04
05
3
43
62
62
43
60
48
46
16
0
BEST WINDOW
Low cloud
9%
0%
0%
0%
15%
0%
13%
26%
41%
13%
Mid cloud
40%
13%
9%
3%
20%
9%
4%
6%
8%
19%
High cloud
29%
26%
2%
0%
6%
5%
25%
6%
26%
0%
Transparency
0.10
0.23
0.20
0.10
0.10
0.19
0.19
0.19
0.19
0.20
Seeing
0.89
0.98
0.98
0.99
1.00
1.00
0.98
1.00
1.00
0.99
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
20 Clouded out · 3/100
Starting from
100
Cloud
−51
Transparency
−18
Seeing
−1
Moonlight
−0
Darkness
−28
Score
3
CLOUD 57% LOW 9% MID 40% HIGH 29% SUN -7.0° MOON -5.5° / 0% WIND 3 TEMP 18°
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 21:00–04:00 · 7H · MEAN 51

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

2022000204
CLOUD BREAKS 21:00CLOUD RETURNS 04:00
SET UP 20:30 · OBSERVE 21:00–04:00 · 7H · MEAN 67

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

2022000204
CLOUD BREAKS 21:00CLOUD RETURNS 04:00MOONLIGHT IGNORED FOR THIS TARGET
SET UP 20:30 · OBSERVE 21:00–04:00 · 7H · MEAN 47

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

2022000204
CLOUD BREAKS 21:00CLOUD RETURNS 04:00
SET UP 21:30 · OBSERVE 22:00–00:00 · 2H · MEAN 47

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

2022000204
HIGH CLOUD CLEARS 22:00CLOUD RETURNS 00:00
SET UP 20:30 · OBSERVE 21:00–04:00 · 7H · MEAN 53

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

2022000204
CLOUD BREAKS 21:00CLOUD RETURNS 04:00
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The next week of nights

Tonight · 12 Aug
62
Good
MOON 0%
22:00–04:00
Tomorrow · 13 Aug
7
Clouded out
MOON 2%
Friday · 14 Aug
62
Good
MOON 6%
02:00–04:00
Saturday · 15 Aug
48
Fair
MOON 13%
03:00–04:00
Sunday · 16 Aug
52
Fair
MOON 21%
21:00–22:00
Monday · 17 Aug
40
Fair
MOON 30%
03:00–04:00
Tuesday · 18 Aug
59
Good
MOON 39%
03:00–04:00
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About this forecast

Conditions for Karachayevsk, Russia 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 →