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Plottier

-38.967° S   68.233° W  ·  279 M
54 /100
PEAK
Marginal, but there is a 9 hours gap from 23:00.
BEST WINDOW 23:00–08:00 · ASTRO DARK 21:00–07:00 · MOON 0%
Transparency
0.60
Seeing
0.78
Cloud
20%
Moon
0%

Fair tonight

Hour by hour, local to Plottier. 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
07
08
0
9
21
26
41
48
41
37
42
41
47
54
47
0
BEST WINDOW
Low cloud
96%
78%
66%
58%
24%
23%
16%
9%
3%
2%
0%
5%
16%
26%
Mid cloud
0%
5%
9%
16%
11%
4%
8%
14%
9%
9%
9%
1%
1%
0%
High cloud
0%
22%
25%
0%
27%
6%
38%
51%
51%
58%
41%
21%
4%
13%
Transparency
0.66
0.60
0.54
0.47
0.41
0.34
0.30
0.28
0.27
0.26
0.25
0.25
0.24
0.24
Seeing
0.80
0.77
0.74
0.72
0.68
0.66
0.66
0.66
0.69
0.72
0.73
0.72
0.78
0.77
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
−96
Transparency
−1
Seeing
−0
Moonlight
−0
Darkness
−3
Score
0
CLOUD 96% LOW 96% MID 0% HIGH 0% SUN -2.1° MOON 1.2° / 0% WIND 4 TEMP 9°
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 22:30 · OBSERVE 23:00–08:00 · 9H · MEAN 45

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

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CLOUD BREAKS 23:00CLOUD RETURNS 08:00
SET UP 22:30 · OBSERVE 23:00–08:00 · 9H · MEAN 49

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

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CLOUD BREAKS 23:00CLOUD RETURNS 08:00MOONLIGHT IGNORED FOR THIS TARGET
SET UP 04:30 · OBSERVE 05:00–08:00 · 3H · MEAN 45

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

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HIGH CLOUD CLEARS 05:00CLOUD RETURNS 08:00
SET UP 05:30 · OBSERVE 06:00–07:00 · 1H · MEAN 39

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

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HIGH CLOUD CLEARS 06:00
SET UP 22:30 · OBSERVE 23:00–08:00 · 9H · MEAN 45

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

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CLOUD BREAKS 23:00CLOUD RETURNS 08:00
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The next week of nights

Tonight · 12 Aug
54
Fair
MOON 0%
23:00–08:00
Tomorrow · 13 Aug
51
Fair
MOON 3%
03:00–05:00
Friday · 14 Aug
54
Fair
MOON 7%
23:00–01:00
Saturday · 15 Aug
56
Good
MOON 15%
03:00–04:00
Sunday · 16 Aug
68
Good
MOON 23%
21:00–22:00
Monday · 17 Aug
70
Good
MOON 32%
03:00–04:00
Tuesday · 18 Aug
39
Fair
MOON 42%
21:00–22:00
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About this forecast

Conditions for Plottier, Argentina 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 →