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Songea

-10.683° S   35.650° E  ·  1113 M
93 /100
PEAK
A genuinely good night — 10 hours of clear, dark sky from 20:00.
BEST WINDOW 20:00–06:00 · ASTRO DARK 20:00–06:00 · MOON 0%
Transparency
0.92
Seeing
1.00
Cloud
0%
Moon
0%

Excellent tonight

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

Sky state
Lighter = daylight and twilight  ·  unshaded = astronomical dark
Score
20
21
22
23
00
01
02
03
04
05
06
07
91
89
90
90
90
92
93
93
93
90
49
0
BEST WINDOW
Low cloud
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
9%
Mid cloud
1%
1%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
1%
12%
High cloud
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
Transparency
0.92
0.85
0.80
0.78
0.78
0.80
0.82
0.83
0.83
0.78
0.70
0.63
Seeing
0.79
0.82
0.91
0.94
0.96
0.98
1.00
1.00
1.00
0.94
0.91
0.85
Moon clear
down
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down
down
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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
20 Excellent · 91/100
Starting from
100
Cloud
−1
Transparency
−3
Seeing
−5
Moonlight
−0
Darkness
−0
Score
91
CLOUD 1% LOW 0% MID 1% HIGH 0% SUN -21.2° MOON -20.1° / 0% WIND 4 TEMP 21°
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 19:30 · OBSERVE 20:00–07:00 · 11H · MEAN 87

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

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TWILIGHT BEGINS 07:00
SET UP 19:30 · OBSERVE 20:00–07:00 · 11H · MEAN 92

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

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TWILIGHT BEGINS 07:00MOONLIGHT IGNORED FOR THIS TARGET
SET UP 19:30 · OBSERVE 20:00–07:00 · 11H · MEAN 87

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

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TWILIGHT BEGINS 07:00
SET UP 19:30 · OBSERVE 20:00–07:00 · 11H · MEAN 83

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

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TWILIGHT BEGINS 07:00
SET UP 19:30 · OBSERVE 20:00–07:00 · 11H · MEAN 89

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

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TWILIGHT BEGINS 07:00
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The next week of nights

Tonight · 12 Aug
93
Excellent
MOON 0%
20:00–06:00
Tomorrow · 13 Aug
75
Excellent
MOON 2%
00:00–06:00
Friday · 14 Aug
79
Excellent
MOON 6%
20:00–23:00
Saturday · 15 Aug
79
Excellent
MOON 13%
03:00–04:00
Sunday · 16 Aug
86
Excellent
MOON 21%
03:00–04:00
Monday · 17 Aug
87
Excellent
MOON 30%
03:00–04:00
Tuesday · 18 Aug
89
Excellent
MOON 39%
03:00–04:00
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About this forecast

Conditions for Songea, Tanzania 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 →