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Salāya

22.310° N   69.604° E  ·  8 M
36 /100
PEAK
Marginal, but there is a 1 hour gap from 03:30.
BEST WINDOW 03:30–04:30 · ASTRO DARK 22:30–05:30 · MOON 0%
Transparency
0.31
Seeing
0.54
Cloud
46%
Moon
0%

Fair tonight

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

Sky state
Lighter = daylight and twilight  ·  unshaded = astronomical dark
Score
22
23
00
01
02
03
04
05
06
21
10
3
13
7
36
34
19
0
BEST WINDOW
Low cloud
23%
20%
26%
27%
33%
19%
13%
22%
10%
Mid cloud
7%
76%
100%
63%
83%
20%
20%
8%
6%
High cloud
87%
65%
61%
55%
53%
24%
38%
59%
40%
Transparency
0.10
0.31
0.10
0.26
0.24
0.25
0.24
0.25
0.27
Seeing
0.52
0.48
0.49
0.47
0.52
0.54
0.53
0.50
0.47
Moon clear
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
22 Poor · 21/100
Starting from
100
Cloud
−62
Transparency
−14
Seeing
−3
Moonlight
−0
Darkness
−0
Score
21
CLOUD 90% LOW 23% MID 7% HIGH 87% SUN -38.2° MOON -36.7° / 0% WIND 7 TEMP 27°
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 03:00 · OBSERVE 03:30–05:30 · 2H · MEAN 37

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

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HIGH CLOUD CLEARS 03:30CLOUD RETURNS 05:30
SET UP 03:00 · OBSERVE 03:30–05:30 · 2H · MEAN 37

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

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HIGH CLOUD CLEARS 03:30CLOUD RETURNS 05:30MOONLIGHT IGNORED FOR THIS TARGET
NO USABLE WINDOW FOR THIS TARGET TONIGHT

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

2200020406
CLOUD NEVER DROPS BELOW 46%
NO USABLE WINDOW FOR THIS TARGET TONIGHT

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

2200020406
CLOUD NEVER DROPS BELOW 46%
SET UP 03:00 · OBSERVE 03:30–05:30 · 2H · MEAN 37

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

2200020406
HIGH CLOUD CLEARS 03:30CLOUD RETURNS 05:30
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The next week of nights

Tonight · 12 Aug
36
Fair
MOON 0%
03:30–04:30
Tomorrow · 13 Aug
51
Fair
MOON 2%
21:30–05:30
Friday · 14 Aug
21
Poor
MOON 6%
Saturday · 15 Aug
12
Clouded out
MOON 13%
Sunday · 16 Aug
14
Clouded out
MOON 21%
Monday · 17 Aug
23
Poor
MOON 30%
Tuesday · 18 Aug
5
Clouded out
MOON 39%
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About this forecast

Conditions for Salāya, India 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 →