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Nguru

12.877° N   10.455° E  ·  349 M
66 /100
PEAK
Worth setting up — 2 hours of workable sky from 03:00.
BEST WINDOW 03:00–05:00 · ASTRO DARK 20:00–05:00 · MOON 0%
Transparency
0.42
Seeing
1.00
Cloud
12%
Moon
0%

Good tonight

Hour by hour, local to Nguru. 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
0
27
26
30
21
5
11
32
48
66
42
0
BEST WINDOW
Low cloud
2%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
2%
1%
Mid cloud
9%
20%
18%
6%
37%
93%
74%
2%
13%
2%
6%
9%
High cloud
98%
100%
99%
98%
100%
100%
100%
100%
45%
10%
41%
58%
Transparency
0.57
0.42
0.29
0.29
0.30
0.30
0.31
0.32
0.30
0.27
0.23
0.20
Seeing
0.78
0.74
0.78
0.85
0.90
0.90
0.92
0.96
1.00
1.00
0.97
0.97
Moon clear
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 Clouded out · 0/100
Starting from
100
Cloud
−58
Transparency
−7
Seeing
−2
Moonlight
−0
Darkness
−33
Score
0
CLOUD 98% LOW 2% MID 9% HIGH 98% SUN -5.3° MOON -3.0° / 0% WIND 4 TEMP 29°
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 02:30 · OBSERVE 03:00–06:00 · 3H · MEAN 49

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

192123010305
HIGH CLOUD CLEARS 03:00TWILIGHT BEGINS 06:00
SET UP 01:30 · OBSERVE 02:00–06:00 · 4H · MEAN 58

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

192123010305
TWILIGHT BEGINS 06:00MOONLIGHT IGNORED FOR THIS TARGET
SET UP 02:30 · OBSERVE 03:00–05:00 · 2H · MEAN 49

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

192123010305
HIGH CLOUD CLEARS 03:00CLOUD RETURNS 05:00
SET UP 03:30 · OBSERVE 04:00–05:00 · 1H · MEAN 50

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

192123010305
HIGH CLOUD CLEARS 04:00CLOUD RETURNS 05:00
SET UP 02:30 · OBSERVE 03:00–06:00 · 3H · MEAN 50

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

192123010305
HIGH CLOUD CLEARS 03:00TWILIGHT BEGINS 06:00
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MOON 0%
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59
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70
Good
MOON 6%
00:00–05:00
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33
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MOON 21%
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31
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73
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About this forecast

Conditions for Nguru, Nigeria 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 →