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Mūdbidri

13.066° N   74.995° E  ·  130 M
14 /100
PEAK
Cloud will spoil it. Not a night for the telescope.
NO USABLE WINDOW · ASTRO DARK 22:30–05:30 · MOON 0%
Transparency
0.17
Seeing
1.00
Cloud
99%
Moon
0%

Clouded out tonight

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

Sky state
Lighter = daylight and twilight  ·  unshaded = astronomical dark
Score
22
23
00
01
02
03
04
05
06
14
3
0
13
0
0
0
0
0
Low cloud
41%
90%
100%
49%
100%
98%
100%
90%
95%
Mid cloud
13%
12%
9%
15%
24%
51%
64%
76%
57%
High cloud
98%
96%
99%
100%
100%
99%
98%
98%
100%
Transparency
0.16
0.17
0.17
0.10
0.10
0.10
0.10
0.10
0.10
Seeing
1.00
0.99
0.97
0.96
1.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
Moon clear
down
down
down
down
down
down
down
down
down
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
22 Clouded out · 14/100
Starting from
100
Cloud
−78
Transparency
−7
Seeing
−0
Moonlight
−0
Darkness
−0
Score
14
CLOUD 99% LOW 41% MID 13% HIGH 98% SUN -48.2° MOON -46.7° / 0% WIND 2 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
When a clear gap is worth driving for

Ask how long the gap is relative to your setup time and your exposure length. A two-hour gap is a real session for a visual observer and close to worthless for someone doing four-minute subs on a target that needs three hours.

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.

NO USABLE WINDOW FOR THIS TARGET TONIGHT

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

2200020406
CLOUD NEVER DROPS BELOW 99%
NO USABLE WINDOW FOR THIS TARGET TONIGHT

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

2200020406
CLOUD NEVER DROPS BELOW 99%
NO USABLE WINDOW FOR THIS TARGET TONIGHT

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

2200020406
CLOUD NEVER DROPS BELOW 99%
NO USABLE WINDOW FOR THIS TARGET TONIGHT

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

2200020406
CLOUD NEVER DROPS BELOW 99%
NO USABLE WINDOW FOR THIS TARGET TONIGHT

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

2200020406
CLOUD NEVER DROPS BELOW 99%
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The next week of nights

Tonight · 12 Aug
14
Clouded out
MOON 0%
Tomorrow · 13 Aug
15
Poor
MOON 2%
Friday · 14 Aug
12
Clouded out
MOON 6%
Saturday · 15 Aug
7
Clouded out
MOON 13%
Sunday · 16 Aug
21
Poor
MOON 21%
Monday · 17 Aug
18
Poor
MOON 30%
Tuesday · 18 Aug
41
Fair
MOON 39%
23:30–00:30
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About this forecast

Conditions for Mūdbidri, India 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 →