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Pardés H̱anna Karkur

32.474° N   34.978° E  ·  63 M
74 /100
PEAK
Worth setting up — 8 hours of workable sky from 21:00.
BEST WINDOW 21:00–05:00 · ASTRO DARK 21:00–05:00 · MOON 0%
Transparency
0.37
Seeing
1.00
Cloud
0%
Moon
0%

Good tonight

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

Sky state
Lighter = daylight and twilight  ·  unshaded = astronomical dark
Score
21
22
23
00
01
02
03
04
05
06
74
71
70
69
68
69
71
73
43
0
BEST WINDOW
Low cloud
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
2%
Mid cloud
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
High cloud
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
Transparency
0.35
0.29
0.24
0.22
0.20
0.22
0.27
0.32
0.37
0.40
Seeing
1.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
0.96
Moon clear
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
21 Good · 74/100
Starting from
100
Cloud
−0
Transparency
−26
Seeing
−0
Moonlight
−0
Darkness
−0
Score
74
CLOUD 0% LOW 0% MID 0% HIGH 0% SUN -18.2° MOON -16.5° / 0% WIND 1 TEMP 26°
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 20:30 · OBSERVE 21:00–05:00 · 8H · MEAN 71

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

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TWILIGHT BEGINS 05:00
SET UP 20:30 · OBSERVE 21:00–06:00 · 9H · MEAN 86

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

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TWILIGHT BEGINS 06:00MOONLIGHT IGNORED FOR THIS TARGET
SET UP 20:30 · OBSERVE 21:00–06:00 · 9H · MEAN 63

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

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TWILIGHT BEGINS 06:00
SET UP 20:30 · OBSERVE 21:00–05:00 · 8H · MEAN 57

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

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TWILIGHT BEGINS 05:00
SET UP 20:30 · OBSERVE 21:00–06:00 · 9H · MEAN 71

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

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TWILIGHT BEGINS 06:00
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The next week of nights

Tonight · 12 Aug
74
Good
MOON 0%
21:00–05:00
Tomorrow · 13 Aug
50
Fair
MOON 2%
21:00–00:00
Friday · 14 Aug
75
Excellent
MOON 6%
21:00–05:00
Saturday · 15 Aug
77
Excellent
MOON 13%
21:00–22:00
Sunday · 16 Aug
61
Good
MOON 21%
21:00–22:00
Monday · 17 Aug
69
Good
MOON 30%
21:00–22:00
Tuesday · 18 Aug
67
Good
MOON 39%
21:00–22:00
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About this forecast

Conditions for Pardés H̱anna Karkur, Israel 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 →