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Kayonza

-1.951° S   30.520° E  ·  1605 M
87 /100
PEAK
A genuinely good night — 9 hours of clear, dark sky from 20:00.
BEST WINDOW 20:00–05:00 · ASTRO DARK 20:00–05:00 · MOON 0%
Transparency
1.00
Seeing
1.00
Cloud
6%
Moon
0%

Excellent tonight

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

Sky state
Lighter = daylight and twilight  ·  unshaded = astronomical dark
Score
19
20
21
22
23
00
01
02
03
04
05
06
50
80
82
71
74
69
73
72
87
87
70
0
BEST WINDOW
Low cloud
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
Mid cloud
0%
1%
2%
1%
0%
0%
1%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
High cloud
40%
27%
26%
49%
45%
52%
39%
40%
12%
7%
6%
0%
Transparency
1.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
0.96
0.89
0.85
0.82
0.83
0.77
0.73
0.70
Seeing
0.75
0.80
0.89
0.93
1.00
1.00
1.00
0.98
1.00
1.00
0.99
0.96
Moon clear
down
down
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
19 Fair · 50/100
Starting from
100
Cloud
−22
Transparency
−0
Seeing
−5
Moonlight
−0
Darkness
−23
Score
50
CLOUD 40% LOW 0% MID 0% HIGH 40% SUN -14.2° MOON -13.0° / 0% WIND 5 TEMP 24°
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 18:30 · OBSERVE 19:00–06:00 · 11H · MEAN 71

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

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TWILIGHT BEGINS 06:00
SET UP 18:30 · OBSERVE 19:00–06:00 · 11H · MEAN 76

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

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TWILIGHT BEGINS 06:00MOONLIGHT IGNORED FOR THIS TARGET
SET UP 18:30 · OBSERVE 19:00–06:00 · 11H · MEAN 67

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

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TWILIGHT BEGINS 06:00
SET UP 18:30 · OBSERVE 19:00–06:00 · 11H · MEAN 60

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

192123010305
TWILIGHT BEGINS 06:00
SET UP 18:30 · OBSERVE 19:00–06:00 · 11H · MEAN 69

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

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TWILIGHT BEGINS 06:00
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The next week of nights

Tonight · 12 Aug
87
Excellent
MOON 0%
20:00–05:00
Tomorrow · 13 Aug
98
Excellent
MOON 2%
20:00–05:00
Friday · 14 Aug
99
Excellent
MOON 6%
20:00–05:00
Saturday · 15 Aug
99
Excellent
MOON 13%
20:00–21:00
Sunday · 16 Aug
86
Excellent
MOON 21%
02:00–03:00
Monday · 17 Aug
78
Excellent
MOON 30%
20:00–21:00
Tuesday · 18 Aug
74
Good
MOON 39%
20:00–21:00
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About this forecast

Conditions for Kayonza, Rwanda 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 →