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Lanham-Seabrook

38.968° N   76.851° W  ·  54 M
72 /100
PEAK
Worth setting up — 5 hours of workable sky from 00:00.
BEST WINDOW 00:00–05:00 · ASTRO DARK 22:00–05:00 · MOON 0%
Transparency
0.87
Seeing
1.00
Cloud
4%
Moon
0%

Good tonight

Hour by hour, local to Lanham-Seabrook. 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
06
0
15
40
26
35
56
67
70
72
53
0
BEST WINDOW
Low cloud
0%
6%
9%
4%
9%
13%
6%
8%
2%
2%
0%
Mid cloud
30%
22%
8%
36%
29%
13%
9%
3%
2%
0%
0%
High cloud
88%
75%
86%
84%
43%
17%
0%
2%
5%
2%
0%
Transparency
0.70
0.87
0.79
0.39
0.23
0.48
0.46
0.47
0.45
0.44
0.43
Seeing
0.91
0.92
0.93
0.95
0.97
1.00
1.00
1.00
0.92
0.92
0.91
Moon clear
0%
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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 Clouded out · 0/100
Starting from
100
Cloud
−62
Transparency
−5
Seeing
−1
Moonlight
−0
Darkness
−33
Score
0
CLOUD 91% LOW 0% MID 30% HIGH 88% SUN 0.4° MOON 3.9° / 0% WIND 3 TEMP 31°
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 00:30 · OBSERVE 01:00–06:00 · 5H · MEAN 62

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

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HIGH CLOUD CLEARS 01:00TWILIGHT BEGINS 06:00
SET UP 23:30 · OBSERVE 00:00–06:00 · 6H · MEAN 71

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

202200020406
HIGH CLOUD CLEARS 00:00TWILIGHT BEGINS 06:00MOONLIGHT IGNORED FOR THIS TARGET
SET UP 00:30 · OBSERVE 01:00–06:00 · 5H · MEAN 59

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

202200020406
HIGH CLOUD CLEARS 01:00TWILIGHT BEGINS 06:00
SET UP 00:30 · OBSERVE 01:00–06:00 · 5H · MEAN 50

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

202200020406
HIGH CLOUD CLEARS 01:00TWILIGHT BEGINS 06:00
SET UP 00:30 · OBSERVE 01:00–06:00 · 5H · MEAN 64

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

202200020406
HIGH CLOUD CLEARS 01:00TWILIGHT BEGINS 06:00
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The next week of nights

Tonight · 12 Aug
72
Good
MOON 0%
00:00–05:00
Tomorrow · 13 Aug
61
Good
MOON 3%
22:00–03:00
Friday · 14 Aug
33
Poor
MOON 7%
Saturday · 15 Aug
69
Good
MOON 15%
02:00–03:00
Sunday · 16 Aug
32
Poor
MOON 23%
Monday · 17 Aug
37
Fair
MOON 32%
02:00–03:00
Tuesday · 18 Aug
81
Excellent
MOON 42%
02:00–03:00
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About this forecast

Conditions for Lanham-Seabrook, Maryland, 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 →