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Ōmiya

36.550° N   140.417° E  ·  56 M
44 /100
PEAK
Marginal, but there is a 1 hour gap from 01:00.
BEST WINDOW 01:00–02:00 · ASTRO DARK 01:00–04:00 · MOON 0%
Transparency
0.19
Seeing
1.00
Cloud
38%
Moon
0%

Fair tonight

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

Sky state
Lighter = daylight and twilight  ·  unshaded = astronomical dark
Score
01
02
03
04
05
44
3
3
8
0
BEST WINDOW
Low cloud
13%
90%
91%
63%
34%
Mid cloud
6%
6%
0%
8%
6%
High cloud
24%
89%
84%
14%
38%
Transparency
0.10
0.10
0.10
0.19
0.19
Seeing
0.87
0.95
1.00
0.96
0.93
Moon clear
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
01 Fair · 44/100
Starting from
100
Cloud
−28
Transparency
−26
Seeing
−1
Moonlight
−0
Darkness
−0
Score
44
CLOUD 38% LOW 13% MID 6% HIGH 24% SUN -35.4° MOON -34.6° / 0% WIND 3 TEMP 22°
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 00:30 · OBSERVE 01:00–02:00 · 1H · MEAN 44

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

010305
CLOUD RETURNS 02:00
SET UP 00:30 · OBSERVE 01:00–02:00 · 1H · MEAN 55

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

010305
CLOUD RETURNS 02:00MOONLIGHT IGNORED FOR THIS TARGET
SET UP 00:30 · OBSERVE 01:00–02:00 · 1H · MEAN 39

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

010305
CLOUD RETURNS 02:00
NO USABLE WINDOW FOR THIS TARGET TONIGHT

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

010305
CONDITIONS STAY BELOW THE USABLE THRESHOLD
SET UP 00:30 · OBSERVE 01:00–02:00 · 1H · MEAN 45

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

010305
CLOUD RETURNS 02:00
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The next week of nights

Tonight · 12 Aug
44
Fair
MOON 0%
01:00–02:00
Tomorrow · 13 Aug
51
Fair
MOON 1%
20:00–01:00
Friday · 14 Aug
49
Fair
MOON 5%
23:00–01:00
Saturday · 15 Aug
47
Fair
MOON 8%
03:00–04:00
Sunday · 16 Aug
36
Fair
MOON 19%
21:00–22:00
Monday · 17 Aug
51
Fair
MOON 28%
21:00–22:00
Tuesday · 18 Aug
7
Clouded out
MOON 37%
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About this forecast

Conditions for Ōmiya, Japan 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 →