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Olanchito

15.481° N   86.574° W  ·  158 M
53 /100
PEAK
Marginal, but there is a 3 hours gap from 20:00.
BEST WINDOW 20:00–23:00 · ASTRO DARK 20:00–05:00 · MOON 1%
Transparency
0.25
Seeing
1.00
Cloud
21%
Moon
1%

Fair tonight

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

Sky state
Lighter = daylight and twilight  ·  unshaded = astronomical dark
Score
18
19
20
21
22
23
00
01
02
03
04
05
06
0
28
48
44
53
27
14
11
12
42
41
7
0
BEST WINDOW
Low cloud
16%
9%
23%
32%
20%
50%
58%
64%
61%
23%
23%
21%
20%
Mid cloud
8%
3%
2%
1%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
High cloud
16%
14%
15%
8%
2%
2%
3%
1%
1%
0%
0%
0%
0%
Transparency
0.31
0.25
0.24
0.22
0.19
0.17
0.16
0.17
0.18
0.18
0.17
0.18
0.21
Seeing
1.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
Moon clear
0%
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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
18 Clouded out · 0/100
Starting from
100
Cloud
−28
Transparency
−20
Seeing
−0
Moonlight
−0
Darkness
−52
Score
0
CLOUD 34% LOW 16% MID 8% HIGH 16% SUN 2.0° MOON 6.5° / 0% WIND 2 TEMP 27°
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
Conditions for planets and the Moon

Seeing is everything. Darkness and moonlight barely matter, and a hazy, humid night that ruins deep-sky work is often the steadiest night of the year for planetary detail.

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 19:30 · OBSERVE 20:00–23:00 · 3H · MEAN 48

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

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ASTRONOMICAL DARK FROM 20:00CLOUD RETURNS 23:00
SET UP 18:30 · OBSERVE 19:00–23:00 · 4H · MEAN 60

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

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CLOUD RETURNS 23:00MOONLIGHT IGNORED FOR THIS TARGET
SET UP 19:30 · OBSERVE 20:00–23:00 · 3H · MEAN 44

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

18202200020406
ASTRONOMICAL DARK FROM 20:00CLOUD RETURNS 23:00
SET UP 21:30 · OBSERVE 22:00–23:00 · 1H · MEAN 38

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

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CLOUD BREAKS 22:00CLOUD RETURNS 23:00
SET UP 19:30 · OBSERVE 20:00–23:00 · 3H · MEAN 48

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

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ASTRONOMICAL DARK FROM 20:00CLOUD RETURNS 23:00
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The next week of nights

Tonight · 12 Aug
53
Fair
MOON 0%
20:00–23:00
Tomorrow · 13 Aug
64
Good
MOON 3%
20:00–05:00
Friday · 14 Aug
50
Fair
MOON 7%
22:00–01:00
Saturday · 15 Aug
2
Clouded out
MOON 15%
Sunday · 16 Aug
33
Poor
MOON 23%
Monday · 17 Aug
45
Fair
MOON 32%
00:00–01:00
Tuesday · 18 Aug
28
Poor
MOON 42%
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About this forecast

Conditions for Olanchito, Honduras 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 →