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Tarija

-21.535° S   64.730° W  ·  1870 M
87 /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
0.89
Seeing
1.00
Cloud
1%
Moon
0%

Excellent tonight

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

Sky state
Lighter = daylight and twilight  ·  unshaded = astronomical dark
Score
18
19
20
21
22
23
00
01
02
03
04
05
06
07
0
54
81
85
87
83
73
72
74
73
72
48
14
0
BEST WINDOW
Low cloud
0%
1%
1%
0%
0%
0%
4%
2%
0%
0%
0%
33%
52%
65%
Mid cloud
2%
2%
6%
1%
0%
1%
6%
6%
2%
1%
1%
0%
0%
0%
High cloud
28%
3%
3%
8%
2%
2%
0%
1%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
Transparency
0.98
0.89
0.83
0.79
0.72
0.63
0.55
0.48
0.41
0.36
0.32
0.29
0.27
0.25
Seeing
0.73
0.77
0.76
0.91
0.98
0.94
0.93
0.94
0.94
0.94
0.97
1.00
1.00
1.00
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
18 Clouded out · 0/100
Starting from
100
Cloud
−17
Transparency
−1
Seeing
−6
Moonlight
−0
Darkness
−76
Score
0
CLOUD 30% LOW 0% MID 2% HIGH 28% SUN 0.0° MOON 3.7° / 0% WIND 5 TEMP 19°
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 18:30 · OBSERVE 19:00–06:00 · 11H · MEAN 73

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

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HIGH CLOUD CLEARS 19:00CLOUD RETURNS 06:00
SET UP 18:30 · OBSERVE 19:00–06:00 · 11H · MEAN 82

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

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HIGH CLOUD CLEARS 19:00CLOUD RETURNS 06:00MOONLIGHT IGNORED FOR THIS TARGET
SET UP 18:30 · OBSERVE 19:00–06:00 · 11H · MEAN 71

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

18202200020406
HIGH CLOUD CLEARS 19:00CLOUD RETURNS 06:00
SET UP 18:30 · OBSERVE 19:00–05:00 · 10H · MEAN 66

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

18202200020406
HIGH CLOUD CLEARS 19:00CLOUD RETURNS 05:00
SET UP 18:30 · OBSERVE 19:00–06:00 · 11H · MEAN 75

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

18202200020406
HIGH CLOUD CLEARS 19:00CLOUD RETURNS 06:00
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The next week of nights

Tonight · 12 Aug
87
Excellent
MOON 0%
20:00–06:00
Tomorrow · 13 Aug
84
Excellent
MOON 3%
20:00–06:00
Friday · 14 Aug
90
Excellent
MOON 7%
20:00–03:00
Saturday · 15 Aug
77
Excellent
MOON 15%
20:00–21:00
Sunday · 16 Aug
51
Fair
MOON 23%
02:00–03:00
Monday · 17 Aug
13
Clouded out
MOON 32%
Tuesday · 18 Aug
0
Clouded out
MOON 42%
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About this forecast

Conditions for Tarija, Bolivia 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 →