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21.975° N   96.084° E  ·  83 M
23 /100
PEAK
Nothing usable opens up tonight.
NO USABLE WINDOW · ASTRO DARK 23:30–04:30 · MOON 0%
Transparency
0.48
Seeing
0.78
Cloud
79%
Moon
0%

Poor tonight

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

Sky state
Lighter = daylight and twilight  ·  unshaded = astronomical dark
Score
23
00
01
02
03
04
05
22
23
19
19
2
0
0
Low cloud
17%
16%
22%
38%
70%
90%
89%
Mid cloud
54%
35%
36%
41%
95%
100%
100%
High cloud
53%
82%
94%
56%
79%
98%
77%
Transparency
0.48
0.47
0.45
0.43
0.41
0.40
0.37
Seeing
0.69
0.69
0.71
0.71
0.73
0.78
0.80
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
23 Poor · 22/100
Starting from
100
Cloud
−70
Transparency
−6
Seeing
−2
Moonlight
−0
Darkness
−0
Score
22
CLOUD 80% LOW 17% MID 54% HIGH 53% SUN -51.7° MOON -50.5° / 0% WIND 5 TEMP 27°
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.

NO USABLE WINDOW FOR THIS TARGET TONIGHT

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

23010305
CLOUD NEVER DROPS BELOW 79%
NO USABLE WINDOW FOR THIS TARGET TONIGHT

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

23010305
CLOUD NEVER DROPS BELOW 79%
NO USABLE WINDOW FOR THIS TARGET TONIGHT

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

23010305
CLOUD NEVER DROPS BELOW 79%
NO USABLE WINDOW FOR THIS TARGET TONIGHT

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

23010305
CLOUD NEVER DROPS BELOW 79%
NO USABLE WINDOW FOR THIS TARGET TONIGHT

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

23010305
CLOUD NEVER DROPS BELOW 79%
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The next week of nights

Tonight · 12 Aug
23
Poor
MOON 0%
Tomorrow · 13 Aug
51
Fair
MOON 2%
01:30–03:30
Friday · 14 Aug
61
Good
MOON 6%
20:30–01:30
Saturday · 15 Aug
19
Poor
MOON 12%
Sunday · 16 Aug
5
Clouded out
MOON 19%
Monday · 17 Aug
0
Clouded out
MOON 28%
Tuesday · 18 Aug
19
Poor
MOON 37%
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About this forecast

Conditions for Mandalay, Myanmar (Burma) 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 →