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Thoen

17.613° N   99.216° E  ·  170 M
46 /100
PEAK
Marginal, but there is a 1 hour gap from 04:00.
BEST WINDOW 04:00–05:00 · ASTRO DARK 01:00–05:00 · MOON 0%
Transparency
0.33
Seeing
1.00
Cloud
39%
Moon
0%

Fair tonight

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

Sky state
Lighter = daylight and twilight  ·  unshaded = astronomical dark
Score
01
02
03
04
05
06
29
26
8
46
33
0
BEST WINDOW
Low cloud
7%
6%
9%
9%
14%
10%
Mid cloud
63%
64%
97%
31%
36%
47%
High cloud
2%
16%
0%
5%
0%
0%
Transparency
0.33
0.31
0.29
0.29
0.27
0.26
Seeing
0.97
0.99
1.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
Moon clear
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
01 Poor · 29/100
Starting from
100
Cloud
−60
Transparency
−11
Seeing
−0
Moonlight
−0
Darkness
−0
Score
29
CLOUD 65% LOW 7% MID 63% HIGH 2% SUN -56.5° MOON -56.2° / 0% WIND 2 TEMP 25°
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
When a clear gap is worth driving for

Ask how long the gap is relative to your setup time and your exposure length. A two-hour gap is a real session for a visual observer and close to worthless for someone doing four-minute subs on a target that needs three hours.

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 03:30 · OBSERVE 04:00–05:00 · 1H · MEAN 46

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

010305
CLOUD BREAKS 04:00TWILIGHT BEGINS 05:00
SET UP 03:30 · OBSERVE 04:00–06:00 · 2H · MEAN 52

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

010305
CLOUD BREAKS 04:00TWILIGHT BEGINS 06:00MOONLIGHT IGNORED FOR THIS TARGET
SET UP 03:30 · OBSERVE 04:00–05:00 · 1H · MEAN 42

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

010305
CLOUD BREAKS 04:00TWILIGHT BEGINS 05:00
NO USABLE WINDOW FOR THIS TARGET TONIGHT

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

010305
CONDITIONS STAY BELOW THE USABLE THRESHOLD
SET UP 03:30 · OBSERVE 04:00–05:00 · 1H · MEAN 45

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

010305
CLOUD BREAKS 04:00TWILIGHT BEGINS 05:00
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The next week of nights

Tonight · 12 Aug
46
Fair
MOON 0%
04:00–05:00
Tomorrow · 13 Aug
36
Fair
MOON 1%
23:00–00:00
Friday · 14 Aug
46
Fair
MOON 5%
21:00–23:00
Saturday · 15 Aug
19
Poor
MOON 10%
Sunday · 16 Aug
4
Clouded out
MOON 19%
Monday · 17 Aug
9
Clouded out
MOON 28%
Tuesday · 18 Aug
26
Poor
MOON 37%
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About this forecast

Conditions for Thoen, Thailand 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 →