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Sandaoling Lutiankuang Wuqi Nongchang

43.015° N   92.883° E  ·  770 M
80 /100
PEAK
A genuinely good night — 3 hours of clear, dark sky from 00:00.
BEST WINDOW 00:00–03:00 · ASTRO DARK 00:00–04:00 · MOON 0%
Transparency
1.00
Seeing
0.69
Cloud
9%
Moon
0%

Excellent tonight

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

Sky state
Lighter = daylight and twilight  ·  unshaded = astronomical dark
Score
00
01
02
03
04
05
42
80
80
31
2
0
BEST WINDOW
Low cloud
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
Mid cloud
55%
9%
10%
57%
97%
27%
High cloud
15%
0%
6%
57%
81%
6%
Transparency
1.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
Seeing
0.58
0.49
0.63
0.66
0.69
0.63
Moon clear
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
00 Fair · 42/100
Starting from
100
Cloud
−53
Transparency
−0
Seeing
−5
Moonlight
−0
Darkness
−0
Score
42
CLOUD 62% LOW 0% MID 55% HIGH 15% SUN -32.0° MOON -31.3° / 0% WIND 6 TEMP 32°
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
What the GoodSeeing score actually measures

One number from 0 to 100 per hour, combining cloud, transparency, seeing, moonlight and darkness. Cloud gates everything else — no amount of steady, dark air rescues an overcast sky.

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 23:30 · OBSERVE 00:00–03:00 · 3H · MEAN 72

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

000204
CLOUD RETURNS 03:00
SET UP 23:30 · OBSERVE 00:00–03:00 · 3H · MEAN 58

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

000204
CLOUD RETURNS 03:00MOONLIGHT IGNORED FOR THIS TARGET
SET UP 23:30 · OBSERVE 00:00–03:00 · 3H · MEAN 73

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

000204
CLOUD RETURNS 03:00
SET UP 00:30 · OBSERVE 01:00–03:00 · 2H · MEAN 81

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

000204
CLOUD BREAKS 01:00CLOUD RETURNS 03:00
SET UP 23:30 · OBSERVE 00:00–03:00 · 3H · MEAN 71

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

000204
CLOUD RETURNS 03:00
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The next week of nights

Tonight · 12 Aug
80
Excellent
MOON 0%
00:00–03:00
Tomorrow · 13 Aug
81
Excellent
MOON 2%
21:00–04:00
Friday · 14 Aug
96
Excellent
MOON 6%
21:00–04:00
Saturday · 15 Aug
5
Clouded out
MOON 12%
Sunday · 16 Aug
98
Excellent
MOON 19%
00:00–01:00
Monday · 17 Aug
94
Excellent
MOON 28%
00:00–01:00
Tuesday · 18 Aug
95
Excellent
MOON 37%
00:00–01:00
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About this forecast

Conditions for Sandaoling Lutiankuang Wuqi Nongchang, China 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 →