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Maramba

-5.050° S   38.617° E  ·  959 M
70 /100
PEAK
Worth setting up — 10 hours of workable sky from 20:00.
BEST WINDOW 20:00–06:00 · ASTRO DARK 20:00–06:00 · MOON 0%
Transparency
0.54
Seeing
1.00
Cloud
7%
Moon
0%

Good tonight

Hour by hour, local to Maramba. 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
07
39
38
43
50
58
70
68
62
62
65
15
0
BEST WINDOW
Low cloud
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
5%
10%
13%
9%
7%
46%
Mid cloud
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
6%
High cloud
95%
96%
84%
64%
45%
10%
7%
12%
3%
0%
0%
0%
Transparency
0.54
0.50
0.47
0.45
0.41
0.36
0.34
0.33
0.30
0.28
0.28
0.27
Seeing
1.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
Moon clear
down
down
down
down
down
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
20 Fair · 39/100
Starting from
100
Cloud
−52
Transparency
−9
Seeing
−0
Moonlight
−0
Darkness
−0
Score
39
CLOUD 95% LOW 0% MID 0% HIGH 95% SUN -22.8° MOON -21.6° / 0% WIND 1 TEMP 18°
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
Why thin high cloud ruins long exposures

Cirrus you can barely see will halo your bright stars, lift your background and vary between frames. Visual observers shrug it off. Long exposures integrate it, so it accumulates.

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 22:00–06:00 · 8H · MEAN 58

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

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TWILIGHT BEGINS 06:00
SET UP 19:30 · OBSERVE 20:00–07:00 · 11H · MEAN 63

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

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CLOUD RETURNS 07:00MOONLIGHT IGNORED FOR THIS TARGET
SET UP 22:30 · OBSERVE 23:00–06:00 · 7H · MEAN 55

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

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HIGH CLOUD CLEARS 23:00TWILIGHT BEGINS 06:00
SET UP 23:30 · OBSERVE 00:00–06:00 · 6H · MEAN 48

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

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HIGH CLOUD CLEARS 00:00TWILIGHT BEGINS 06:00
SET UP 21:30 · OBSERVE 22:00–06:00 · 8H · MEAN 59

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

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TWILIGHT BEGINS 06:00
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The next week of nights

Tonight · 12 Aug
70
Good
MOON 0%
20:00–06:00
Tomorrow · 13 Aug
76
Excellent
MOON 2%
20:00–06:00
Friday · 14 Aug
71
Good
MOON 6%
20:00–03:00
Saturday · 15 Aug
61
Good
MOON 13%
03:00–04:00
Sunday · 16 Aug
8
Clouded out
MOON 21%
Monday · 17 Aug
49
Fair
MOON 30%
21:00–22:00
Tuesday · 18 Aug
57
Good
MOON 39%
03:00–04:00
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About this forecast

Conditions for Maramba, Tanzania 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 →