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Tarime

-1.350° S   34.367° E  ·  1398 M
89 /100
PEAK
A genuinely good night — 5 hours of clear, dark sky from 01:00.
BEST WINDOW 01:00–06:00 · ASTRO DARK 21:00–06:00 · MOON 0%
Transparency
0.84
Seeing
1.00
Cloud
7%
Moon
0%

Excellent tonight

Hour by hour, local to Tarime. 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
74
76
50
23
20
50
65
76
79
89
40
0
BEST WINDOW
Low cloud
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
Mid cloud
2%
2%
2%
45%
61%
9%
1%
1%
0%
0%
0%
0%
High cloud
19%
11%
68%
96%
85%
63%
34%
9%
15%
7%
21%
23%
Transparency
0.71
0.59
0.55
0.55
0.54
0.56
0.51
0.51
0.67
0.84
0.84
0.84
Seeing
0.85
0.97
1.00
0.91
1.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
0.98
0.97
0.94
0.94
Moon clear
down
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
20 Good · 74/100
Starting from
100
Cloud
−12
Transparency
−10
Seeing
−3
Moonlight
−0
Darkness
−2
Score
74
CLOUD 20% LOW 0% MID 2% HIGH 19% SUN -17.8° MOON -16.5° / 0% WIND 4 TEMP 24°
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
Why thin high cloud ruins long exposures

Cirrus you can barely see will halo your bright stars, lift your background and vary between frames. Visual observers shrug it off. Long exposures integrate it, so it accumulates.

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 00:30 · OBSERVE 01:00–06:00 · 5H · MEAN 70

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

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HIGH CLOUD CLEARS 01:00TWILIGHT BEGINS 06:00
SET UP 00:30 · OBSERVE 01:00–07:00 · 6H · MEAN 76

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

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HIGH CLOUD CLEARS 01:00TWILIGHT BEGINS 07:00MOONLIGHT IGNORED FOR THIS TARGET
SET UP 00:30 · OBSERVE 01:00–06:00 · 5H · MEAN 65

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

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HIGH CLOUD CLEARS 01:00TWILIGHT BEGINS 06:00
SET UP 01:30 · OBSERVE 02:00–06:00 · 4H · MEAN 65

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

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HIGH CLOUD CLEARS 02:00TWILIGHT BEGINS 06:00
SET UP 00:30 · OBSERVE 01:00–06:00 · 5H · MEAN 70

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

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HIGH CLOUD CLEARS 01:00TWILIGHT BEGINS 06:00
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The next week of nights

Tonight · 12 Aug
89
Excellent
MOON 0%
01:00–06:00
Tomorrow · 13 Aug
99
Excellent
MOON 2%
23:00–06:00
Friday · 14 Aug
95
Excellent
MOON 6%
22:00–06:00
Saturday · 15 Aug
78
Excellent
MOON 13%
21:00–22:00
Sunday · 16 Aug
84
Excellent
MOON 21%
21:00–22:00
Monday · 17 Aug
85
Excellent
MOON 30%
03:00–04:00
Tuesday · 18 Aug
82
Excellent
MOON 39%
03:00–04:00
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About this forecast

Conditions for Tarime, 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 →