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Nellimarla

18.156° N   83.447° E  ·  48 M
29 /100
PEAK
Nothing usable opens up tonight.
NO USABLE WINDOW · ASTRO DARK 22:30–04:30 · MOON 0%
Transparency
0.34
Seeing
0.93
Cloud
99%
Moon
0%

Poor tonight

Hour by hour, local to Nellimarla. 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
29
19
17
16
16
5
13
0
Low cloud
1%
6%
2%
3%
5%
3%
6%
5%
Mid cloud
13%
42%
52%
44%
45%
91%
46%
38%
High cloud
99%
100%
99%
100%
100%
100%
99%
98%
Transparency
0.34
0.32
0.31
0.10
0.10
0.10
0.10
0.10
Seeing
0.88
0.88
0.87
0.88
0.81
0.90
0.93
0.99
Moon clear
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 Poor · 29/100
Starting from
100
Cloud
−60
Transparency
−10
Seeing
−1
Moonlight
−0
Darkness
−0
Score
29
CLOUD 99% LOW 1% MID 13% HIGH 99% SUN -49.9° MOON -48.5° / 0% WIND 3 TEMP 28°
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.

NO USABLE WINDOW FOR THIS TARGET TONIGHT

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

22000204
CLOUD NEVER DROPS BELOW 98%
NO USABLE WINDOW FOR THIS TARGET TONIGHT

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

22000204
CLOUD NEVER DROPS BELOW 98%
NO USABLE WINDOW FOR THIS TARGET TONIGHT

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

22000204
CLOUD NEVER DROPS BELOW 98%
NO USABLE WINDOW FOR THIS TARGET TONIGHT

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

22000204
CLOUD NEVER DROPS BELOW 98%
NO USABLE WINDOW FOR THIS TARGET TONIGHT

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

22000204
CLOUD NEVER DROPS BELOW 98%
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The next week of nights

Tonight · 12 Aug
29
Poor
MOON 0%
Tomorrow · 13 Aug
16
Poor
MOON 2%
Friday · 14 Aug
28
Poor
MOON 6%
Saturday · 15 Aug
20
Poor
MOON 13%
Sunday · 16 Aug
47
Fair
MOON 21%
23:30–00:30
Monday · 17 Aug
27
Poor
MOON 30%
Tuesday · 18 Aug
42
Fair
MOON 39%
23:30–00:30
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About this forecast

Conditions for Nellimarla, 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 →