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Mendi

-6.147° S   143.656° E  ·  1729 M
66 /100
PEAK
Worth setting up — 2 hours of workable sky from 04:00.
BEST WINDOW 04:00–06:00 · ASTRO DARK 04:00–06:00 · MOON 0%
Transparency
0.35
Seeing
1.00
Cloud
7%
Moon
0%

Good tonight

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

Sky state
Lighter = daylight and twilight  ·  unshaded = astronomical dark
Score
04
05
06
07
53
66
17
0
BEST WINDOW
Low cloud
16%
6%
5%
5%
Mid cloud
2%
3%
3%
6%
High cloud
2%
0%
0%
0%
Transparency
0.31
0.33
0.35
0.38
Seeing
1.00
1.00
1.00
0.98
Moon clear
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
04 Fair · 53/100
Starting from
100
Cloud
−27
Transparency
−20
Seeing
−0
Moonlight
−0
Darkness
−0
Score
53
CLOUD 18% LOW 16% MID 2% HIGH 2% SUN -37.9° MOON -39.6° / 0% WIND 2 TEMP 12°
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 03:30 · OBSERVE 04:00–06:00 · 2H · MEAN 60

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

0406
TWILIGHT BEGINS 06:00
SET UP 03:30 · OBSERVE 04:00–07:00 · 3H · MEAN 67

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

0406
TWILIGHT BEGINS 07:00MOONLIGHT IGNORED FOR THIS TARGET
SET UP 03:30 · OBSERVE 04:00–06:00 · 2H · MEAN 56

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

0406
TWILIGHT BEGINS 06:00
SET UP 03:30 · OBSERVE 04:00–06:00 · 2H · MEAN 45

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

0406
TWILIGHT BEGINS 06:00
SET UP 03:30 · OBSERVE 04:00–06:00 · 2H · MEAN 61

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

0406
TWILIGHT BEGINS 06:00
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The next week of nights

Tonight · 12 Aug
66
Good
MOON 0%
04:00–06:00
Tomorrow · 13 Aug
25
Poor
MOON 1%
Friday · 14 Aug
37
Fair
MOON 5%
04:00–05:00
Saturday · 15 Aug
38
Fair
MOON 8%
04:00–05:00
Sunday · 16 Aug
72
Good
MOON 19%
04:00–05:00
Monday · 17 Aug
38
Fair
MOON 28%
04:00–05:00
Tuesday · 18 Aug
47
Fair
MOON 37%
04:00–05:00
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About this forecast

Conditions for Mendi, Papua New Guinea 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 →