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Rio Grande da Serra

-23.744° S   46.398° W  ·  777 M
57 /100
PEAK
Worth setting up — 3 hours of workable sky from 20:00.
BEST WINDOW 20:00–23:00 · ASTRO DARK 20:00–06:00 · MOON 0%
Transparency
0.28
Seeing
1.00
Cloud
25%
Moon
0%

Good tonight

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

Sky state
Lighter = daylight and twilight  ·  unshaded = astronomical dark
Score
18
19
20
21
22
23
00
01
02
03
04
05
06
07
0
24
56
57
53
30
30
31
25
25
22
24
4
0
BEST WINDOW
Low cloud
11%
21%
4%
1%
0%
1%
1%
0%
11%
18%
23%
18%
24%
26%
Mid cloud
2%
6%
1%
0%
2%
2%
1%
2%
12%
2%
2%
6%
19%
9%
High cloud
92%
67%
22%
33%
42%
100%
99%
96%
97%
96%
98%
93%
90%
6%
Transparency
0.31
0.22
0.24
0.28
0.26
0.23
0.21
0.21
0.19
0.20
0.22
0.24
0.23
0.26
Seeing
1.00
1.00
1.00
0.99
1.00
0.97
0.95
0.95
0.94
0.92
0.91
0.90
0.89
0.87
Moon clear
down
down
down
down
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
18 Clouded out · 0/100
Starting from
100
Cloud
−58
Transparency
−12
Seeing
−0
Moonlight
−0
Darkness
−30
Score
0
CLOUD 93% LOW 11% MID 2% HIGH 92% SUN -3.5° MOON -0.0° / 0% WIND 2 TEMP 18°
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 19:30 · OBSERVE 20:00–23:00 · 3H · MEAN 54

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

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HIGH CLOUD CLEARS 20:00CLOUD RETURNS 23:00
SET UP 19:30 · OBSERVE 20:00–02:00 · 6H · MEAN 51

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

18202200020406
HIGH CLOUD CLEARS 20:00MOONLIGHT IGNORED FOR THIS TARGET
SET UP 19:30 · OBSERVE 20:00–23:00 · 3H · MEAN 46

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

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HIGH CLOUD CLEARS 20:00CLOUD RETURNS 23:00
SET UP 19:30 · OBSERVE 20:00–22:00 · 2H · MEAN 38

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

18202200020406
HIGH CLOUD CLEARS 20:00
SET UP 19:30 · OBSERVE 20:00–23:00 · 3H · MEAN 54

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

18202200020406
HIGH CLOUD CLEARS 20:00CLOUD RETURNS 23:00
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The next week of nights

Tonight · 12 Aug
57
Good
MOON 0%
20:00–23:00
Tomorrow · 13 Aug
61
Good
MOON 3%
19:00–20:00
Friday · 14 Aug
0
Clouded out
MOON 7%
Saturday · 15 Aug
37
Fair
MOON 15%
03:00–04:00
Sunday · 16 Aug
20
Poor
MOON 23%
Monday · 17 Aug
75
Excellent
MOON 32%
21:00–22:00
Tuesday · 18 Aug
78
Excellent
MOON 42%
03:00–04:00
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About this forecast

Conditions for Rio Grande da Serra, Brazil 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 →