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Mauldin

34.779° N   82.310° W  ·  289 M
70 /100
PEAK
Worth setting up — 2 hours of workable sky from 04:00.
BEST WINDOW 04:00–06:00 · ASTRO DARK 22:00–06:00 · MOON 0%
Transparency
0.40
Seeing
1.00
Cloud
1%
Moon
0%

Good tonight

Hour by hour, local to Mauldin. 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
0
7
40
29
27
45
37
33
40
70
22
0
BEST WINDOW
Low cloud
0%
0%
0%
1%
1%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
Mid cloud
2%
2%
2%
2%
11%
1%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
High cloud
79%
88%
82%
94%
100%
66%
85%
94%
77%
1%
10%
27%
Transparency
0.45
0.40
0.37
0.10
0.33
0.27
0.24
0.25
0.28
0.30
0.28
0.24
Seeing
0.97
0.99
0.96
0.77
0.70
1.00
0.96
0.94
0.94
0.92
0.94
0.97
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
−45
Transparency
−12
Seeing
−0
Moonlight
−0
Darkness
−43
Score
0
CLOUD 80% LOW 0% MID 2% HIGH 79% SUN 3.3° MOON 7.0° / 0% WIND 2 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.

SET UP 03:30 · OBSERVE 04:00–06:00 · 2H · MEAN 55

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

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HIGH CLOUD CLEARS 04:00TWILIGHT BEGINS 06:00
SET UP 00:30 · OBSERVE 01:00–07:00 · 6H · MEAN 54

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

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HIGH CLOUD CLEARS 01:00CLOUD RETURNS 07:00MOONLIGHT IGNORED FOR THIS TARGET
SET UP 04:30 · OBSERVE 05:00–06:00 · 1H · MEAN 67

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

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HIGH CLOUD CLEARS 05:00TWILIGHT BEGINS 06:00
SET UP 04:30 · OBSERVE 05:00–06:00 · 1H · MEAN 58

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

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HIGH CLOUD CLEARS 05:00TWILIGHT BEGINS 06:00
SET UP 03:30 · OBSERVE 04:00–06:00 · 2H · MEAN 56

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

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HIGH CLOUD CLEARS 04:00TWILIGHT BEGINS 06:00
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The next week of nights

Tonight · 12 Aug
70
Good
MOON 0%
04:00–06:00
Tomorrow · 13 Aug
58
Good
MOON 3%
22:00–06:00
Friday · 14 Aug
80
Excellent
MOON 7%
22:00–03:00
Saturday · 15 Aug
51
Fair
MOON 15%
02:00–03:00
Sunday · 16 Aug
73
Good
MOON 23%
02:00–03:00
Monday · 17 Aug
87
Excellent
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 Mauldin, South Carolina, 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 →