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Simões Filho

-12.784° S   38.404° W  ·  33 M
57 /100
PEAK
Worth setting up — 2 hours of workable sky from 03:00.
BEST WINDOW 03:00–05:00 · ASTRO DARK 19:00–05:00 · MOON 0%
Transparency
0.46
Seeing
0.63
Cloud
17%
Moon
0%

Good tonight

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

Sky state
Lighter = daylight and twilight  ·  unshaded = astronomical dark
Score
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
00
01
02
03
04
05
06
0
1
10
1
3
13
6
11
28
7
44
57
26
0
BEST WINDOW
Low cloud
100%
91%
62%
94%
95%
64%
27%
54%
41%
55%
35%
16%
31%
48%
Mid cloud
70%
56%
67%
97%
35%
54%
97%
70%
32%
84%
1%
1%
1%
1%
High cloud
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
Transparency
0.35
0.37
0.38
0.41
0.46
0.45
0.43
0.40
0.41
0.40
0.41
0.42
0.43
0.44
Seeing
0.43
0.45
0.46
0.48
0.48
0.52
0.56
0.57
0.57
0.58
0.56
0.57
0.63
0.65
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
17 Clouded out · 0/100
Starting from
100
Cloud
−100
Transparency
−0
Seeing
−0
Moonlight
−0
Darkness
−0
Score
0
CLOUD 100% LOW 100% MID 70% HIGH 0% SUN 5.9° MOON 8.5° / 0% WIND 8 TEMP 23°
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 02:30 · OBSERVE 03:00–05:00 · 2H · MEAN 54

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

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CLOUD BREAKS 03:00TWILIGHT BEGINS 05:00
SET UP 02:30 · OBSERVE 03:00–06:00 · 3H · MEAN 49

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

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CLOUD BREAKS 03:00CLOUD RETURNS 06:00MOONLIGHT IGNORED FOR THIS TARGET
SET UP 02:30 · OBSERVE 03:00–05:00 · 2H · MEAN 52

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

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CLOUD BREAKS 03:00TWILIGHT BEGINS 05:00
SET UP 03:30 · OBSERVE 04:00–05:00 · 1H · MEAN 48

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

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CLOUD BREAKS 04:00TWILIGHT BEGINS 05:00
SET UP 02:30 · OBSERVE 03:00–05:00 · 2H · MEAN 56

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

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CLOUD BREAKS 03:00TWILIGHT BEGINS 05:00
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The next week of nights

Tonight · 12 Aug
57
Good
MOON 0%
03:00–05:00
Tomorrow · 13 Aug
73
Good
MOON 3%
19:00–05:00
Friday · 14 Aug
71
Good
MOON 7%
19:00–04:00
Saturday · 15 Aug
66
Good
MOON 15%
21:00–22:00
Sunday · 16 Aug
52
Fair
MOON 23%
21:00–22:00
Monday · 17 Aug
39
Fair
MOON 32%
21:00–22:00
Tuesday · 18 Aug
54
Fair
MOON 42%
03:00–04:00
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About this forecast

Conditions for Simões Filho, 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 →