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Neftekumsk

44.756° N   44.992° E  ·  44 M
95 /100
PEAK
A genuinely good night — 7 hours of clear, dark sky from 21:00.
BEST WINDOW 21:00–04:00 · ASTRO DARK 22:00–04:00 · MOON 0%
Transparency
1.00
Seeing
1.00
Cloud
0%
Moon
0%

Excellent tonight

Hour by hour, local to Neftekumsk. 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
18
76
87
92
94
95
94
92
32
0
BEST WINDOW
Low cloud
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
Mid cloud
11%
17%
10%
1%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
High cloud
0%
0%
2%
2%
1%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
Transparency
1.00
1.00
1.00
0.99
0.96
0.94
0.89
0.83
0.77
0.75
Seeing
0.91
0.94
0.89
0.76
0.84
0.88
0.92
0.95
1.00
1.00
Moon clear
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
20 Poor · 18/100
Starting from
100
Cloud
−10
Transparency
−0
Seeing
−2
Moonlight
−0
Darkness
−70
Score
18
CLOUD 11% LOW 0% MID 11% HIGH 0% SUN -8.5° MOON -7.0° / 0% WIND 3 TEMP 30°
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 20:30 · OBSERVE 21:00–04:00 · 7H · MEAN 91

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

2022000204
ASTRONOMICAL DARK FROM 21:00TWILIGHT BEGINS 04:00
SET UP 19:30 · OBSERVE 20:00–05:00 · 9H · MEAN 84

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

2022000204
TWILIGHT BEGINS 05:00MOONLIGHT IGNORED FOR THIS TARGET
SET UP 20:30 · OBSERVE 21:00–04:00 · 7H · MEAN 91

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

2022000204
ASTRONOMICAL DARK FROM 21:00TWILIGHT BEGINS 04:00
SET UP 20:30 · OBSERVE 21:00–04:00 · 7H · MEAN 88

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

2022000204
ASTRONOMICAL DARK FROM 21:00TWILIGHT BEGINS 04:00
SET UP 20:30 · OBSERVE 21:00–04:00 · 7H · MEAN 92

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

2022000204
ASTRONOMICAL DARK FROM 21:00TWILIGHT BEGINS 04:00
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The next week of nights

Tonight · 12 Aug
95
Excellent
MOON 0%
21:00–04:00
Tomorrow · 13 Aug
70
Good
MOON 2%
23:00–03:00
Friday · 14 Aug
78
Excellent
MOON 6%
21:00–04:00
Saturday · 15 Aug
83
Excellent
MOON 13%
03:00–04:00
Sunday · 16 Aug
83
Excellent
MOON 21%
03:00–04:00
Monday · 17 Aug
35
Fair
MOON 30%
21:00–22:00
Tuesday · 18 Aug
30
Poor
MOON 39%
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About this forecast

Conditions for Neftekumsk, Russia 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 →