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Kiphire

25.868° N   94.786° E  ·  1015 M
55 /100
PEAK
Worth setting up — 5 hours of workable sky from 22:30.
BEST WINDOW 22:30–03:30 · ASTRO DARK 22:30–03:30 · MOON 0%
Transparency
0.24
Seeing
1.00
Cloud
23%
Moon
0%

Good tonight

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

Sky state
Lighter = daylight and twilight  ·  unshaded = astronomical dark
Score
22
23
00
01
02
03
04
40
40
51
54
55
40
0
BEST WINDOW
Low cloud
1%
2%
6%
8%
9%
13%
16%
Mid cloud
38%
38%
14%
2%
2%
4%
1%
High cloud
21%
16%
13%
20%
14%
21%
19%
Transparency
0.24
0.24
0.23
0.24
0.23
0.23
0.24
Seeing
1.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
Moon clear
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
22 Fair · 40/100
Starting from
100
Cloud
−42
Transparency
−18
Seeing
−0
Moonlight
−0
Darkness
−0
Score
40
CLOUD 51% LOW 1% MID 38% HIGH 21% SUN -47.7° MOON -46.4° / 0% WIND 1 TEMP 21°
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.

SET UP 22:00 · OBSERVE 22:30–04:30 · 6H · MEAN 45

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

22000204
TWILIGHT BEGINS 04:30
SET UP 22:00 · OBSERVE 22:30–04:30 · 6H · MEAN 59

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

22000204
TWILIGHT BEGINS 04:30MOONLIGHT IGNORED FOR THIS TARGET
SET UP 22:00 · OBSERVE 22:30–03:30 · 5H · MEAN 42

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

22000204
TWILIGHT BEGINS 03:30
SET UP 00:00 · OBSERVE 00:30–03:30 · 3H · MEAN 37

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

22000204
CLOUD BREAKS 00:30TWILIGHT BEGINS 03:30
SET UP 22:00 · OBSERVE 22:30–04:30 · 6H · MEAN 45

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

22000204
TWILIGHT BEGINS 04:30
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The next week of nights

Tonight · 12 Aug
55
Good
MOON 0%
22:30–03:30
Tomorrow · 13 Aug
43
Fair
MOON 2%
19:30–20:30
Friday · 14 Aug
39
Fair
MOON 6%
23:30–00:30
Saturday · 15 Aug
26
Poor
MOON 13%
Sunday · 16 Aug
17
Poor
MOON 21%
Monday · 17 Aug
8
Clouded out
MOON 30%
Tuesday · 18 Aug
22
Poor
MOON 39%
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About this forecast

Conditions for Kiphire, India 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 →