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Tharād

24.396° N   71.626° E  ·  53 M
58 /100
PEAK
Worth setting up — 3 hours of workable sky from 02:30.
BEST WINDOW 02:30–05:30 · ASTRO DARK 22:30–05:30 · MOON 0%
Transparency
0.43
Seeing
0.98
Cloud
7%
Moon
0%

Good tonight

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

Sky state
Lighter = daylight and twilight  ·  unshaded = astronomical dark
Score
22
23
00
01
02
03
04
05
06
35
35
34
33
37
41
58
27
0
BEST WINDOW
Low cloud
2%
1%
2%
2%
2%
6%
6%
3%
7%
Mid cloud
1%
2%
1%
0%
0%
2%
1%
1%
0%
High cloud
95%
96%
98%
98%
87%
67%
20%
3%
11%
Transparency
0.43
0.41
0.38
0.35
0.33
0.30
0.28
0.27
0.27
Seeing
0.94
0.95
0.98
0.96
0.98
0.97
0.94
0.91
0.93
Moon clear
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
22 Fair · 35/100
Starting from
100
Cloud
−54
Transparency
−11
Seeing
−1
Moonlight
−0
Darkness
−0
Score
35
CLOUD 95% LOW 2% MID 1% HIGH 95% SUN -38.1° MOON -36.6° / 0% WIND 3 TEMP 28°
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 03:00 · OBSERVE 03:30–05:30 · 2H · MEAN 49

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

2200020406
HIGH CLOUD CLEARS 03:30TWILIGHT BEGINS 05:30
SET UP 22:00 · OBSERVE 22:30–06:30 · 8H · MEAN 47

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

2200020406
TWILIGHT BEGINS 06:30MOONLIGHT IGNORED FOR THIS TARGET
SET UP 04:00 · OBSERVE 04:30–05:30 · 1H · MEAN 52

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

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HIGH CLOUD CLEARS 04:30TWILIGHT BEGINS 05:30
SET UP 04:00 · OBSERVE 04:30–05:30 · 1H · MEAN 41

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

2200020406
HIGH CLOUD CLEARS 04:30TWILIGHT BEGINS 05:30
SET UP 03:00 · OBSERVE 03:30–05:30 · 2H · MEAN 48

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

2200020406
HIGH CLOUD CLEARS 03:30TWILIGHT BEGINS 05:30
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The next week of nights

Tonight · 12 Aug
58
Good
MOON 0%
02:30–05:30
Tomorrow · 13 Aug
65
Good
MOON 2%
21:30–04:30
Friday · 14 Aug
41
Fair
MOON 6%
04:30–05:30
Saturday · 15 Aug
32
Poor
MOON 13%
Sunday · 16 Aug
31
Poor
MOON 21%
Monday · 17 Aug
35
Fair
MOON 30%
23:30–00:30
Tuesday · 18 Aug
34
Poor
MOON 39%
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About this forecast

Conditions for Tharād, India 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 →