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-23.380° S   150.506° E  ·  13 M
36 /100
PEAK
Marginal, but there is a 1 hour gap from 02:00.
BEST WINDOW 02:00–03:00 · ASTRO DARK 02:00–06:00 · MOON 0%
Transparency
0.91
Seeing
0.95
Cloud
65%
Moon
0%

Fair tonight

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

Sky state
Lighter = daylight and twilight  ·  unshaded = astronomical dark
Score
02
03
04
05
06
07
36
15
9
9
0
0
BEST WINDOW
Low cloud
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
Mid cloud
65%
93%
100%
100%
100%
70%
High cloud
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
Transparency
0.87
0.80
0.74
0.84
0.91
0.86
Seeing
0.65
0.91
0.95
0.95
0.95
0.96
Moon clear
down
down
down
down
down
0%
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
02 Fair · 36/100
Starting from
100
Cloud
−58
Transparency
−2
Seeing
−3
Moonlight
−0
Darkness
−0
Score
36
CLOUD 65% LOW 0% MID 65% HIGH 0% SUN -61.3° MOON -62.4° / 0% WIND 6 TEMP 16°
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 01:30 · OBSERVE 02:00–03:00 · 1H · MEAN 38

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

020406
CLOUD RETURNS 03:00
NO USABLE WINDOW FOR THIS TARGET TONIGHT

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

020406
CLOUD NEVER DROPS BELOW 65%
SET UP 01:30 · OBSERVE 02:00–03:00 · 1H · MEAN 38

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

020406
CLOUD RETURNS 03:00
NO USABLE WINDOW FOR THIS TARGET TONIGHT

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

020406
CLOUD NEVER DROPS BELOW 65%
NO USABLE WINDOW FOR THIS TARGET TONIGHT

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

020406
CLOUD NEVER DROPS BELOW 65%
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The next week of nights

Tonight · 12 Aug
36
Fair
MOON 0%
02:00–03:00
Tomorrow · 13 Aug
96
Excellent
MOON 1%
19:00–06:00
Friday · 14 Aug
85
Excellent
MOON 5%
19:00–06:00
Saturday · 15 Aug
69
Good
MOON 8%
04:00–05:00
Sunday · 16 Aug
72
Good
MOON 19%
04:00–05:00
Monday · 17 Aug
67
Good
MOON 28%
22:00–23:00
Tuesday · 18 Aug
70
Good
MOON 37%
04:00–05:00
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About this forecast

Conditions for Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia 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 →