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41.719° N   83.713° W  ·  207 M
63 /100
PEAK
Worth setting up — 4 hours of workable sky from 02:00.
BEST WINDOW 02:00–06:00 · ASTRO DARK 23:00–05:00 · MOON 0%
Transparency
0.22
Seeing
1.00
Cloud
0%
Moon
0%

Good tonight

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

Sky state
Lighter = daylight and twilight  ·  unshaded = astronomical dark
Score
21
22
23
00
01
02
03
04
05
06
07
0
45
62
51
20
61
63
51
55
9
0
BEST WINDOW
Low cloud
1%
0%
6%
22%
65%
2%
0%
0%
0%
0%
63%
Mid cloud
0%
0%
0%
0%
9%
7%
1%
1%
0%
0%
0%
High cloud
1%
0%
0%
0%
12%
2%
12%
45%
21%
23%
28%
Transparency
0.26
0.22
0.20
0.19
0.19
0.20
0.20
0.20
0.19
0.17
0.16
Seeing
1.00
0.87
0.88
0.90
0.92
0.93
0.97
1.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
Moon clear
down
down
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
21 Clouded out · 0/100
Starting from
100
Cloud
−1
Transparency
−29
Seeing
−0
Moonlight
−0
Darkness
−70
Score
0
CLOUD 2% LOW 1% MID 0% HIGH 1% SUN -4.3° MOON -0.5° / 0% WIND 2 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 01:30 · OBSERVE 02:00–06:00 · 4H · MEAN 56

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

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CLOUD BREAKS 02:00TWILIGHT BEGINS 06:00
SET UP 01:30 · OBSERVE 02:00–07:00 · 5H · MEAN 67

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

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CLOUD BREAKS 02:00CLOUD RETURNS 07:00MOONLIGHT IGNORED FOR THIS TARGET
SET UP 01:30 · OBSERVE 02:00–06:00 · 4H · MEAN 50

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 06:00
SET UP 01:30 · OBSERVE 02:00–04:00 · 2H · MEAN 46

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

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CLOUD BREAKS 02:00CLOUD RETURNS 04:00
SET UP 01:30 · OBSERVE 02:00–06:00 · 4H · MEAN 59

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

212301030507
CLOUD BREAKS 02:00TWILIGHT BEGINS 06:00
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The next week of nights

Tonight · 12 Aug
63
Good
MOON 0%
02:00–06:00
Tomorrow · 13 Aug
31
Poor
MOON 3%
Friday · 14 Aug
69
Good
MOON 7%
23:00–03:00
Saturday · 15 Aug
67
Good
MOON 15%
02:00–03:00
Sunday · 16 Aug
30
Poor
MOON 23%
Monday · 17 Aug
69
Good
MOON 32%
02:00–03:00
Tuesday · 18 Aug
62
Good
MOON 42%
02:00–03:00
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About this forecast

Conditions for Sylvania, Ohio, United States 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 →