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Mar del Plata

-38.000° S   57.556° W  ·  14 M
67 /100
PEAK
Worth setting up — 2 hours of workable sky from 22:00.
BEST WINDOW 22:00–00:00 · ASTRO DARK 20:00–07:00 · MOON 0%
Transparency
0.53
Seeing
0.69
Cloud
6%
Moon
0%

Good tonight

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

Sky state
Lighter = daylight and twilight  ·  unshaded = astronomical dark
Score
18
19
20
21
22
23
00
01
02
03
04
05
06
07
08
0
10
31
33
67
57
15
2
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
BEST WINDOW
Low cloud
7%
6%
1%
0%
2%
10%
73%
95%
97%
100%
100%
100%
100%
99%
100%
Mid cloud
0%
1%
2%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
5%
High cloud
95%
98%
100%
98%
5%
12%
31%
78%
77%
100%
100%
100%
100%
100%
100%
Transparency
0.51
0.45
0.44
0.45
0.40
0.39
0.42
0.47
0.47
0.44
0.45
0.46
0.47
0.53
0.53
Seeing
0.70
0.64
0.59
0.64
0.67
0.63
0.58
0.56
0.58
0.63
0.65
0.69
0.64
0.52
0.51
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
18 Clouded out · 0/100
Starting from
100
Cloud
−56
Transparency
−9
Seeing
−3
Moonlight
−0
Darkness
−33
Score
0
CLOUD 95% LOW 7% MID 0% HIGH 95% SUN 1.4° MOON 4.0° / 0% WIND 5 TEMP 8°
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 21:30 · OBSERVE 22:00–00:00 · 2H · MEAN 65

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

1820220002040608
HIGH CLOUD CLEARS 22:00CLOUD RETURNS 00:00
SET UP 21:30 · OBSERVE 22:00–00:00 · 2H · MEAN 66

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

1820220002040608
HIGH CLOUD CLEARS 22:00CLOUD RETURNS 00:00MOONLIGHT IGNORED FOR THIS TARGET
SET UP 21:30 · OBSERVE 22:00–00:00 · 2H · MEAN 62

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

1820220002040608
HIGH CLOUD CLEARS 22:00CLOUD RETURNS 00:00
SET UP 21:30 · OBSERVE 22:00–00:00 · 2H · MEAN 52

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

1820220002040608
HIGH CLOUD CLEARS 22:00CLOUD RETURNS 00:00
SET UP 21:30 · OBSERVE 22:00–00:00 · 2H · MEAN 70

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

1820220002040608
HIGH CLOUD CLEARS 22:00CLOUD RETURNS 00:00
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The next week of nights

Tonight · 12 Aug
67
Good
MOON 0%
22:00–00:00
Tomorrow · 13 Aug
19
Poor
MOON 3%
Friday · 14 Aug
44
Fair
MOON 7%
20:00–22:00
Saturday · 15 Aug
0
Clouded out
MOON 15%
Sunday · 16 Aug
13
Clouded out
MOON 23%
Monday · 17 Aug
0
Clouded out
MOON 32%
Tuesday · 18 Aug
69
Good
MOON 42%
03:00–04:00
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About this forecast

Conditions for Mar del Plata, Argentina 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 →