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Morphett Vale

-35.133° S   138.517° E  ·  92 M
45 /100
PEAK
Marginal, but there is a 3 hours gap from 01:30.
BEST WINDOW 01:30–04:30 · ASTRO DARK 01:30–06:30 · MOON 0%
Transparency
0.39
Seeing
0.80
Cloud
15%
Moon
0%

Fair tonight

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

Sky state
Lighter = daylight and twilight  ·  unshaded = astronomical dark
Score
01
02
03
04
05
06
07
45
38
35
29
43
4
0
BEST WINDOW
Low cloud
34%
45%
49%
58%
38%
15%
63%
Mid cloud
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
2%
High cloud
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
Transparency
0.38
0.38
0.39
0.38
0.38
0.37
0.37
Seeing
0.63
0.66
0.67
0.68
0.72
0.80
0.82
Moon clear
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
01 Fair · 45/100
Starting from
100
Cloud
−34
Transparency
−16
Seeing
−5
Moonlight
−0
Darkness
−0
Score
45
CLOUD 34% LOW 34% MID 0% HIGH 0% SUN -64.6° MOON -66.0° / 0% WIND 6 TEMP 13°
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 01:00 · OBSERVE 01:30–04:30 · 3H · MEAN 42

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

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SET UP 01:00 · OBSERVE 01:30–04:30 · 3H · MEAN 42

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

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MOONLIGHT IGNORED FOR THIS TARGET
SET UP 01:00 · OBSERVE 01:30–04:30 · 3H · MEAN 40

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

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NO USABLE WINDOW FOR THIS TARGET TONIGHT

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

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CONDITIONS STAY BELOW THE USABLE THRESHOLD
SET UP 01:00 · OBSERVE 01:30–04:30 · 3H · MEAN 41

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

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The next week of nights

Tonight · 12 Aug
45
Fair
MOON 0%
01:30–04:30
Tomorrow · 13 Aug
33
Poor
MOON 1%
Friday · 14 Aug
61
Good
MOON 5%
19:30–04:30
Saturday · 15 Aug
37
Fair
MOON 8%
03:30–04:30
Sunday · 16 Aug
68
Good
MOON 19%
03:30–04:30
Monday · 17 Aug
38
Fair
MOON 28%
03:30–04:30
Tuesday · 18 Aug
25
Poor
MOON 37%
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About this forecast

Conditions for Morphett Vale, South Australia, Australia 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 →