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Tucupido

9.273° N   65.772° W  ·  134 M
44 /100
PEAK
Marginal, but there is a 1 hour gap from 05:00.
BEST WINDOW 05:00–06:00 · ASTRO DARK 20:00–06:00 · MOON 0%
Transparency
0.19
Seeing
1.00
Cloud
51%
Moon
0%

Fair tonight

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

Sky state
Lighter = daylight and twilight  ·  unshaded = astronomical dark
Score
19
20
21
22
23
00
01
02
03
04
05
06
0
5
16
8
13
14
19
11
29
24
44
0
BEST WINDOW
Low cloud
1%
3%
5%
41%
2%
9%
0%
8%
2%
3%
2%
20%
Mid cloud
7%
91%
49%
63%
60%
53%
38%
67%
6%
23%
18%
9%
High cloud
84%
97%
96%
89%
98%
99%
98%
99%
98%
97%
36%
24%
Transparency
0.10
0.10
0.10
0.10
0.10
0.10
0.10
0.10
0.19
0.19
0.19
0.10
Seeing
0.86
0.95
1.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
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
19 Clouded out · 0/100
Starting from
100
Cloud
−50
Transparency
−18
Seeing
−1
Moonlight
−0
Darkness
−31
Score
0
CLOUD 86% LOW 1% MID 7% HIGH 84% SUN -5.1° MOON -0.4° / 0% WIND 3 TEMP 27°
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 04:30 · OBSERVE 05:00–06:00 · 1H · MEAN 43

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

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HIGH CLOUD CLEARS 05:00TWILIGHT BEGINS 06:00
SET UP 04:30 · OBSERVE 05:00–06:00 · 1H · MEAN 55

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

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HIGH CLOUD CLEARS 05:00TWILIGHT BEGINS 06:00MOONLIGHT IGNORED FOR THIS TARGET
SET UP 04:30 · OBSERVE 05:00–06:00 · 1H · MEAN 37

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

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HIGH CLOUD CLEARS 05:00TWILIGHT BEGINS 06:00
NO USABLE WINDOW FOR THIS TARGET TONIGHT

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

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CLOUD NEVER DROPS BELOW 44%
SET UP 04:30 · OBSERVE 05:00–06:00 · 1H · MEAN 42

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

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HIGH CLOUD CLEARS 05:00TWILIGHT BEGINS 06:00
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The next week of nights

Tonight · 12 Aug
44
Fair
MOON 0%
05:00–06:00
Tomorrow · 13 Aug
39
Fair
MOON 3%
04:00–06:00
Friday · 14 Aug
39
Fair
MOON 7%
01:00–02:00
Saturday · 15 Aug
45
Fair
MOON 15%
20:00–21:00
Sunday · 16 Aug
30
Poor
MOON 23%
Monday · 17 Aug
28
Poor
MOON 32%
Tuesday · 18 Aug
34
Poor
MOON 42%
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About this forecast

Conditions for Tucupido, Venezuela 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 →