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Mazabuka

-15.856° S   27.748° E  ·  1050 M
72 /100
PEAK
Worth setting up — 5 hours of workable sky from 00:00.
BEST WINDOW 00:00–05:00 · ASTRO DARK 20:00–06:00 · MOON 0%
Transparency
0.79
Seeing
0.74
Cloud
9%
Moon
0%

Good tonight

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

Sky state
Lighter = daylight and twilight  ·  unshaded = astronomical dark
Score
19
20
21
22
23
00
01
02
03
04
05
06
07
45
49
32
11
16
56
72
70
60
42
31
2
0
BEST WINDOW
Low cloud
1%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
1%
5%
13%
32%
40%
10%
17%
Mid cloud
31%
46%
69%
96%
89%
34%
9%
6%
10%
16%
31%
85%
95%
High cloud
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
Transparency
0.79
0.76
0.76
0.72
0.73
0.69
0.65
0.59
0.51
0.47
0.47
0.45
0.48
Seeing
0.74
0.71
0.66
0.67
0.70
0.68
0.68
0.69
0.72
0.71
0.66
0.65
0.65
Moon clear
down
down
down
down
down
down
down
down
down
down
down
down
0%
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
19 Fair · 45/100
Starting from
100
Cloud
−28
Transparency
−6
Seeing
−4
Moonlight
−0
Darkness
−17
Score
45
CLOUD 31% LOW 1% MID 31% HIGH 0% SUN -14.7° MOON -13.8° / 0% WIND 5 TEMP 22°
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 23:30 · OBSERVE 00:00–05:00 · 5H · MEAN 63

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

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CLOUD BREAKS 00:00
SET UP 23:30 · OBSERVE 00:00–05:00 · 5H · MEAN 61

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

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CLOUD BREAKS 00:00MOONLIGHT IGNORED FOR THIS TARGET
SET UP 23:30 · OBSERVE 00:00–05:00 · 5H · MEAN 61

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

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CLOUD BREAKS 00:00
SET UP 23:30 · OBSERVE 00:00–04:00 · 4H · MEAN 56

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

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CLOUD BREAKS 00:00CLOUD RETURNS 04:00
SET UP 23:30 · OBSERVE 00:00–05:00 · 5H · MEAN 64

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

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CLOUD BREAKS 00:00
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The next week of nights

Tonight · 12 Aug
72
Good
MOON 0%
00:00–05:00
Tomorrow · 13 Aug
81
Excellent
MOON 2%
20:00–06:00
Friday · 14 Aug
81
Excellent
MOON 6%
20:00–06:00
Saturday · 15 Aug
88
Excellent
MOON 13%
02:00–03:00
Sunday · 16 Aug
91
Excellent
MOON 21%
02:00–03:00
Monday · 17 Aug
87
Excellent
MOON 30%
02:00–03:00
Tuesday · 18 Aug
89
Excellent
MOON 39%
02:00–03:00
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About this forecast

Conditions for Mazabuka, Zambia 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 →