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Perote

19.562° N   97.242° W  ·  2416 M
69 /100
PEAK
Worth setting up — 5 hours of workable sky from 01:00.
BEST WINDOW 01:00–06:00 · ASTRO DARK 21:00–05:00 · MOON 1%
Transparency
0.41
Seeing
1.00
Cloud
2%
Moon
1%

Good tonight

Hour by hour, local to Perote. 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
16
18
12
22
31
38
49
59
69
62
0
BEST WINDOW
Low cloud
38%
41%
48%
59%
44%
33%
25%
15%
8%
3%
2%
1%
Mid cloud
4%
2%
1%
1%
0%
0%
0%
2%
1%
0%
0%
0%
High cloud
23%
6%
1%
2%
1%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
Transparency
0.24
0.17
0.17
0.18
0.20
0.21
0.20
0.23
0.28
0.38
0.41
0.40
Seeing
0.86
0.91
0.96
0.98
1.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
0.97
0.89
0.88
0.96
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
19 Clouded out · 0/100
Starting from
100
Cloud
−64
Transparency
−11
Seeing
−1
Moonlight
−0
Darkness
−24
Score
0
CLOUD 56% LOW 38% MID 4% HIGH 23% SUN -0.9° MOON 3.9° / 0% WIND 3 TEMP 14°
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 01:00–06:00 · 5H · MEAN 55

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

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TWILIGHT BEGINS 06:00
SET UP 23:30 · OBSERVE 00:00–06:00 · 6H · MEAN 63

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 00:30 · OBSERVE 01:00–06:00 · 5H · MEAN 52

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 02:30 · OBSERVE 03:00–06:00 · 3H · MEAN 51

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

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TWILIGHT BEGINS 06:00
SET UP 00:30 · OBSERVE 01:00–06:00 · 5H · MEAN 57

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
69
Good
MOON 0%
01:00–06:00
Tomorrow · 13 Aug
44
Fair
MOON 3%
04:00–06:00
Friday · 14 Aug
34
Poor
MOON 7%
Saturday · 15 Aug
15
Poor
MOON 15%
Sunday · 16 Aug
51
Fair
MOON 23%
00:00–01:00
Monday · 17 Aug
33
Poor
MOON 32%
Tuesday · 18 Aug
28
Poor
MOON 42%
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About this forecast

Conditions for Perote, Mexico 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 →