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Kaysville

41.035° N   111.939° W  ·  1332 M
39 /100
PEAK
Marginal, but there is a 2 hours gap from 23:00.
BEST WINDOW 23:00–01:00 · ASTRO DARK 23:00–05:00 · MOON 1%
Transparency
0.78
Seeing
0.98
Cloud
91%
Moon
1%

Fair tonight

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

Sky state
Lighter = daylight and twilight  ·  unshaded = astronomical dark
Score
21
22
23
00
01
02
03
04
05
06
07
0
31
39
35
32
37
32
33
33
3
0
BEST WINDOW
Low cloud
0%
0%
0%
1%
1%
0%
0%
0%
2%
0%
2%
Mid cloud
2%
2%
1%
9%
18%
6%
18%
16%
9%
27%
31%
High cloud
94%
96%
95%
92%
96%
98%
98%
98%
91%
88%
32%
Transparency
0.78
0.63
0.55
0.52
0.64
0.77
0.78
0.76
0.72
0.70
0.68
Seeing
1.00
0.93
0.98
0.95
0.84
0.76
0.67
0.68
0.70
0.79
0.82
Moon clear
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
21 Clouded out · 0/100
Starting from
100
Cloud
−53
Transparency
−4
Seeing
−0
Moonlight
−0
Darkness
−43
Score
0
CLOUD 94% LOW 0% MID 2% HIGH 94% SUN -5.9° MOON -1.6° / 0% WIND 2 TEMP 23°
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 22:30 · OBSERVE 23:00–00:00 · 1H · MEAN 35

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

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ASTRONOMICAL DARK FROM 23:00
SET UP 21:30 · OBSERVE 22:00–01:00 · 3H · MEAN 38

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

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SEEING DEGRADES AFTER 01:00MOONLIGHT IGNORED FOR THIS TARGET
NO USABLE WINDOW FOR THIS TARGET TONIGHT

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

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CLOUD NEVER DROPS BELOW 53%
NO USABLE WINDOW FOR THIS TARGET TONIGHT

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

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CLOUD NEVER DROPS BELOW 53%
NO USABLE WINDOW FOR THIS TARGET TONIGHT

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

212301030507
CLOUD NEVER DROPS BELOW 53%
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The next week of nights

Tonight · 12 Aug
39
Fair
MOON 0%
23:00–01:00
Tomorrow · 13 Aug
39
Fair
MOON 3%
05:00–06:00
Friday · 14 Aug
22
Poor
MOON 7%
Saturday · 15 Aug
89
Excellent
MOON 15%
00:00–01:00
Sunday · 16 Aug
62
Good
MOON 23%
00:00–01:00
Monday · 17 Aug
31
Poor
MOON 32%
Tuesday · 18 Aug
64
Good
MOON 42%
00:00–01:00
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About this forecast

Conditions for Kaysville, Utah, United States 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 →