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Samandağ

36.080° N   35.976° E  ·  20 M
57 /100
PEAK
Worth setting up — 3 hours of workable sky from 02:00.
BEST WINDOW 02:00–05:00 · ASTRO DARK 22:00–05:00 · MOON 0%
Transparency
0.34
Seeing
0.90
Cloud
15%
Moon
0%

Good tonight

Hour by hour, local to Samandağ. 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
1
25
12
10
29
17
37
43
57
20
0
BEST WINDOW
Low cloud
25%
36%
60%
83%
85%
56%
73%
42%
34%
15%
26%
81%
Mid cloud
0%
1%
1%
1%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
High cloud
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
Transparency
0.34
0.30
0.32
0.32
0.31
0.30
0.29
0.29
0.30
0.31
0.34
0.37
Seeing
0.74
0.80
0.76
0.73
0.71
0.72
0.76
0.81
0.83
0.86
0.90
0.90
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
−25
Transparency
−20
Seeing
−4
Moonlight
−0
Darkness
−52
Score
0
CLOUD 26% LOW 25% MID 0% HIGH 0% SUN 5.1° MOON 6.5° / 0% WIND 5 TEMP 28°
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 02:00–05:00 · 3H · MEAN 47

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

192123010305
CLOUD BREAKS 02:00TWILIGHT BEGINS 05:00
SET UP 01:30 · OBSERVE 02:00–06:00 · 4H · MEAN 51

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

192123010305
CLOUD BREAKS 02:00CLOUD RETURNS 06:00MOONLIGHT IGNORED FOR THIS TARGET
SET UP 01:30 · OBSERVE 02:00–05:00 · 3H · MEAN 44

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

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CLOUD BREAKS 02:00TWILIGHT BEGINS 05:00
SET UP 03:30 · OBSERVE 04:00–05:00 · 1H · MEAN 44

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

192123010305
CLOUD BREAKS 04:00TWILIGHT BEGINS 05:00
SET UP 01:30 · OBSERVE 02:00–05:00 · 3H · MEAN 47

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

192123010305
CLOUD BREAKS 02:00TWILIGHT BEGINS 05:00
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The next week of nights

Tonight · 12 Aug
57
Good
MOON 0%
02:00–05:00
Tomorrow · 13 Aug
34
Poor
MOON 2%
Friday · 14 Aug
47
Fair
MOON 6%
22:00–00:00
Saturday · 15 Aug
46
Fair
MOON 13%
21:00–22:00
Sunday · 16 Aug
49
Fair
MOON 21%
21:00–22:00
Monday · 17 Aug
55
Good
MOON 30%
21:00–22:00
Tuesday · 18 Aug
13
Clouded out
MOON 39%
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About this forecast

Conditions for Samandağ, Türkiye 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 →