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Kwekwe

-18.928° S   29.815° E  ·  1203 M
47 /100
PEAK
Marginal, but there is a 1 hour gap from 02:00.
BEST WINDOW 02:00–03:00 · ASTRO DARK 20:00–06:00 · MOON 0%
Transparency
0.52
Seeing
0.57
Cloud
33%
Moon
0%

Fair tonight

Hour by hour, local to Kwekwe. 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
07
26
0
0
0
0
0
0
47
30
1
0
0
0
BEST WINDOW
Low cloud
55%
100%
100%
100%
100%
100%
100%
31%
52%
96%
100%
100%
100%
Mid cloud
14%
31%
36%
15%
9%
10%
10%
2%
9%
88%
98%
87%
100%
High cloud
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
Transparency
0.51
0.47
0.48
0.49
0.51
0.52
0.52
0.47
0.42
0.40
0.43
0.44
0.12
Seeing
0.50
0.50
0.47
0.45
0.50
0.50
0.48
0.50
0.52
0.57
0.54
0.51
0.54
Moon clear
down
down
down
down
down
down
down
down
down
down
down
down
0%
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 Poor · 26/100
Starting from
100
Cloud
−60
Transparency
−8
Seeing
−4
Moonlight
−0
Darkness
−2
Score
26
CLOUD 61% LOW 55% MID 14% HIGH 0% SUN -17.3° MOON -16.4° / 0% WIND 7 TEMP 14°
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 01:30 · OBSERVE 02:00–03:00 · 1H · MEAN 51

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

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CLOUD BREAKS 02:00CLOUD RETURNS 03:00
SET UP 01:30 · OBSERVE 02:00–03:00 · 1H · MEAN 46

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

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CLOUD BREAKS 02:00CLOUD RETURNS 03:00MOONLIGHT IGNORED FOR THIS TARGET
SET UP 01:30 · OBSERVE 02:00–03:00 · 1H · MEAN 50

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

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CLOUD BREAKS 02:00CLOUD RETURNS 03:00
SET UP 01:30 · OBSERVE 02:00–03:00 · 1H · MEAN 37

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

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CLOUD BREAKS 02:00CLOUD RETURNS 03:00
SET UP 01:30 · OBSERVE 02:00–03:00 · 1H · MEAN 52

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

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CLOUD BREAKS 02:00CLOUD RETURNS 03:00
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The next week of nights

Tonight · 12 Aug
47
Fair
MOON 0%
02:00–03:00
Tomorrow · 13 Aug
52
Fair
MOON 2%
22:00–23:00
Friday · 14 Aug
83
Excellent
MOON 6%
19:00–06:00
Saturday · 15 Aug
81
Excellent
MOON 13%
20:00–21:00
Sunday · 16 Aug
84
Excellent
MOON 21%
20:00–21:00
Monday · 17 Aug
78
Excellent
MOON 30%
20:00–21:00
Tuesday · 18 Aug
75
Excellent
MOON 39%
02:00–03:00
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About this forecast

Conditions for Kwekwe, Zimbabwe 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 →