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Namwala

-15.750° S   26.438° E  ·  999 M
58 /100
PEAK
Worth setting up — 4 hours of workable sky from 02:00.
BEST WINDOW 02:00–06:00 · ASTRO DARK 20:00–06:00 · MOON 0%
Transparency
0.63
Seeing
0.80
Cloud
14%
Moon
0%

Good tonight

Hour by hour, local to Namwala. 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
23
26
13
6
16
12
16
51
56
58
57
12
0
BEST WINDOW
Low cloud
8%
6%
27%
2%
9%
23%
20%
4%
1%
4%
2%
11%
21%
Mid cloud
37%
59%
76%
99%
74%
86%
83%
37%
27%
13%
16%
3%
2%
High cloud
0%
0%
9%
11%
19%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
Transparency
0.12
0.10
0.10
0.10
0.10
0.40
0.58
0.63
0.54
0.45
0.39
0.36
0.36
Seeing
0.73
0.71
0.67
0.66
0.80
0.75
0.64
0.70
0.62
0.53
0.57
0.60
0.59
Moon clear
down
down
down
down
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
19 Poor · 23/100
Starting from
100
Cloud
−38
Transparency
−22
Seeing
−3
Moonlight
−0
Darkness
−14
Score
23
CLOUD 39% LOW 8% MID 37% HIGH 0% SUN -13.5° MOON -12.6° / 0% WIND 5 TEMP 20°
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
What the GoodSeeing score actually measures

One number from 0 to 100 per hour, combining cloud, transparency, seeing, moonlight and darkness. Cloud gates everything else — no amount of steady, dark air rescues an overcast sky.

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 01:30 · OBSERVE 02:00–06:00 · 4H · MEAN 59

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

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CLOUD BREAKS 02:00TWILIGHT BEGINS 06:00
SET UP 01:30 · OBSERVE 02:00–07:00 · 5H · MEAN 53

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

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CLOUD BREAKS 02:00TWILIGHT BEGINS 07:00MOONLIGHT IGNORED FOR THIS TARGET
SET UP 01:30 · OBSERVE 02:00–06:00 · 4H · MEAN 58

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

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CLOUD BREAKS 02:00TWILIGHT BEGINS 06:00
SET UP 01:30 · OBSERVE 02:00–06:00 · 4H · MEAN 46

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

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CLOUD BREAKS 02:00TWILIGHT BEGINS 06:00
SET UP 01:30 · OBSERVE 02:00–06:00 · 4H · MEAN 61

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

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CLOUD BREAKS 02:00TWILIGHT BEGINS 06:00
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The next week of nights

Tonight · 12 Aug
58
Good
MOON 0%
02:00–06:00
Tomorrow · 13 Aug
77
Excellent
MOON 2%
20:00–06:00
Friday · 14 Aug
80
Excellent
MOON 6%
20:00–06:00
Saturday · 15 Aug
89
Excellent
MOON 13%
20:00–21:00
Sunday · 16 Aug
91
Excellent
MOON 21%
20:00–21:00
Monday · 17 Aug
88
Excellent
MOON 30%
02:00–03:00
Tuesday · 18 Aug
87
Excellent
MOON 39%
02:00–03:00
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About this forecast

Conditions for Namwala, 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 →