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Mehdya

34.256° N   6.673° W  ·  22 M
68 /100
PEAK
Worth setting up — 6 hours of workable sky from 23:00.
BEST WINDOW 23:00–05:00 · ASTRO DARK 22:00–06:00 · MOON 0%
Transparency
0.34
Seeing
1.00
Cloud
0%
Moon
0%

Good tonight

Hour by hour, local to Mehdya. 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
10
32
62
67
68
68
67
62
10
0
0
BEST WINDOW
Low cloud
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
6%
85%
100%
91%
Mid cloud
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
High cloud
23%
74%
98%
16%
2%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
Transparency
0.35
0.34
0.32
0.29
0.27
0.26
0.24
0.23
0.22
0.21
0.21
0.21
Seeing
0.71
0.85
0.78
0.76
0.85
0.87
0.91
0.89
0.86
1.00
1.00
0.99
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
−13
Transparency
−23
Seeing
−5
Moonlight
−0
Darkness
−60
Score
0
CLOUD 23% LOW 0% MID 0% HIGH 23% SUN 2.7° MOON 5.0° / 0% WIND 5 TEMP 24°
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
Conditions for planets and the Moon

Seeing is everything. Darkness and moonlight barely matter, and a hazy, humid night that ruins deep-sky work is often the steadiest night of the year for planetary detail.

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 22:30 · OBSERVE 23:00–05:00 · 6H · MEAN 67

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

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HIGH CLOUD CLEARS 23:00CLOUD RETURNS 05:00
SET UP 22:30 · OBSERVE 23:00–05:00 · 6H · MEAN 78

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

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HIGH CLOUD CLEARS 23:00CLOUD RETURNS 05:00MOONLIGHT IGNORED FOR THIS TARGET
SET UP 22:30 · OBSERVE 23:00–05:00 · 6H · MEAN 63

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

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HIGH CLOUD CLEARS 23:00CLOUD RETURNS 05:00
SET UP 22:30 · OBSERVE 23:00–05:00 · 6H · MEAN 53

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

202200020406
HIGH CLOUD CLEARS 23:00CLOUD RETURNS 05:00
SET UP 22:30 · OBSERVE 23:00–05:00 · 6H · MEAN 73

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

202200020406
HIGH CLOUD CLEARS 23:00CLOUD RETURNS 05:00
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The next week of nights

Tonight · 12 Aug
68
Good
MOON 0%
23:00–05:00
Tomorrow · 13 Aug
24
Poor
MOON 2%
Friday · 14 Aug
60
Good
MOON 6%
22:00–06:00
Saturday · 15 Aug
16
Poor
MOON 13%
Sunday · 16 Aug
44
Fair
MOON 21%
01:00–02:00
Monday · 17 Aug
0
Clouded out
MOON 30%
Tuesday · 18 Aug
52
Fair
MOON 39%
01:00–02:00
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About this forecast

Conditions for Mehdya, Morocco 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 →