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Pad Idan

26.775° N   68.301° E  ·  49 M
73 /100
PEAK
Worth setting up — 4 hours of workable sky from 23:00.
BEST WINDOW 23:00–03:00 · ASTRO DARK 22:00–05:00 · MOON 0%
Transparency
0.75
Seeing
0.87
Cloud
13%
Moon
0%

Good tonight

Hour by hour, local to Pad Idan. 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
06
34
56
70
51
73
16
36
30
0
BEST WINDOW
Low cloud
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
Mid cloud
11%
0%
1%
16%
6%
88%
42%
13%
1%
High cloud
100%
59%
27%
49%
9%
17%
48%
43%
2%
Transparency
0.75
0.72
0.68
0.64
0.61
0.58
0.57
0.54
0.50
Seeing
0.71
0.75
0.80
0.83
0.86
0.87
0.85
0.82
0.84
Moon clear
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
22 Poor · 34/100
Starting from
100
Cloud
−59
Transparency
−4
Seeing
−3
Moonlight
−0
Darkness
−0
Score
34
CLOUD 100% LOW 0% MID 11% HIGH 100% SUN -34.3° MOON -32.8° / 0% WIND 5 TEMP 32°
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 22:30 · OBSERVE 23:00–03:00 · 4H · MEAN 62

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

2200020406
HIGH CLOUD CLEARS 23:00CLOUD RETURNS 03:00
SET UP 22:30 · OBSERVE 23:00–03:00 · 4H · MEAN 63

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

2200020406
HIGH CLOUD CLEARS 23:00CLOUD RETURNS 03:00MOONLIGHT IGNORED FOR THIS TARGET
SET UP 22:30 · OBSERVE 23:00–03:00 · 4H · MEAN 57

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

2200020406
HIGH CLOUD CLEARS 23:00CLOUD RETURNS 03:00
SET UP 22:30 · OBSERVE 23:00–01:00 · 2H · MEAN 47

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

2200020406
HIGH CLOUD CLEARS 23:00CLOUD RETURNS 01:00
SET UP 22:30 · OBSERVE 23:00–03:00 · 4H · MEAN 62

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

2200020406
HIGH CLOUD CLEARS 23:00CLOUD RETURNS 03:00
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The next week of nights

Tonight · 12 Aug
73
Good
MOON 0%
23:00–03:00
Tomorrow · 13 Aug
87
Excellent
MOON 2%
21:00–05:00
Friday · 14 Aug
79
Excellent
MOON 6%
21:00–05:00
Saturday · 15 Aug
82
Excellent
MOON 13%
23:00–00:00
Sunday · 16 Aug
61
Good
MOON 21%
23:00–00:00
Monday · 17 Aug
74
Good
MOON 30%
23:00–00:00
Tuesday · 18 Aug
80
Excellent
MOON 39%
23:00–00:00
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About this forecast

Conditions for Pad Idan, Pakistan 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 →