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Khashm al Qirbah

14.967° N   35.917° E  ·  458 M
92 /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
0.98
Cloud
14%
Moon
0%

Excellent tonight

Hour by hour, local to Khashm al Qirbah. 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
92
71
55
45
43
43
44
48
49
0
BEST WINDOW
Low cloud
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
Mid cloud
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
6%
1%
0%
1%
0%
High cloud
14%
46%
77%
95%
96%
86%
85%
76%
74%
58%
Transparency
1.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
0.86
0.73
0.70
0.69
0.68
Seeing
0.98
0.82
0.83
0.77
0.69
0.68
0.71
0.74
0.78
0.79
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 Excellent · 92/100
Starting from
100
Cloud
−8
Transparency
−0
Seeing
−0
Moonlight
−0
Darkness
−0
Score
92
CLOUD 14% LOW 0% MID 0% HIGH 14% SUN -27.6° MOON -25.7° / 0% WIND 2 TEMP 35°
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 19:30 · OBSERVE 20:00–05:00 · 9H · MEAN 53

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

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TWILIGHT BEGINS 05:00
SET UP 19:30 · OBSERVE 20:00–05:00 · 9H · MEAN 50

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

2022000204
TWILIGHT BEGINS 05:00MOONLIGHT IGNORED FOR THIS TARGET
SET UP 19:30 · OBSERVE 20:00–23:00 · 3H · MEAN 65

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

2022000204
CLOUD RETURNS 23:00
SET UP 19:30 · OBSERVE 20:00–22:00 · 2H · MEAN 70

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

2022000204
CLOUD RETURNS 22:00
SET UP 19:30 · OBSERVE 20:00–05:00 · 9H · MEAN 48

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

2022000204
TWILIGHT BEGINS 05:00
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The next week of nights

Tonight · 12 Aug
92
Excellent
MOON 0%
20:00–05:00
Tomorrow · 13 Aug
83
Excellent
MOON 2%
01:00–05:00
Friday · 14 Aug
73
Good
MOON 6%
20:00–05:00
Saturday · 15 Aug
69
Good
MOON 13%
02:00–03:00
Sunday · 16 Aug
45
Fair
MOON 21%
02:00–03:00
Monday · 17 Aug
73
Good
MOON 30%
02:00–03:00
Tuesday · 18 Aug
57
Good
MOON 39%
02:00–03:00
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About this forecast

Conditions for Khashm al Qirbah, Sudan 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 →