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Tuomuwusitang

38.363° N   77.231° E  ·  1236 M
16 /100
PEAK
Nothing usable opens up tonight.
NO USABLE WINDOW · ASTRO DARK 00:00–05:00 · MOON 0%
Transparency
1.00
Seeing
0.69
Cloud
90%
Moon
0%

Poor tonight

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

Sky state
Lighter = daylight and twilight  ·  unshaded = astronomical dark
Score
00
01
02
03
04
05
06
16
7
4
5
5
3
0
Low cloud
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
Mid cloud
90%
100%
100%
100%
98%
100%
100%
High cloud
9%
38%
98%
83%
88%
47%
16%
Transparency
1.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
Seeing
0.59
0.62
0.64
0.69
0.67
0.64
0.72
Moon clear
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
00 Poor · 16/100
Starting from
100
Cloud
−82
Transparency
−0
Seeing
−2
Moonlight
−0
Darkness
−0
Score
16
CLOUD 90% LOW 0% MID 90% HIGH 9% SUN -35.1° MOON -34.0° / 0% WIND 6 TEMP 28°
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.

NO USABLE WINDOW FOR THIS TARGET TONIGHT

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

00020406
CLOUD NEVER DROPS BELOW 90%
NO USABLE WINDOW FOR THIS TARGET TONIGHT

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

00020406
CLOUD NEVER DROPS BELOW 90%
NO USABLE WINDOW FOR THIS TARGET TONIGHT

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

00020406
CLOUD NEVER DROPS BELOW 90%
NO USABLE WINDOW FOR THIS TARGET TONIGHT

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

00020406
CLOUD NEVER DROPS BELOW 90%
NO USABLE WINDOW FOR THIS TARGET TONIGHT

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

00020406
CLOUD NEVER DROPS BELOW 90%
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The next week of nights

Tonight · 12 Aug
16
Poor
MOON 0%
Tomorrow · 13 Aug
74
Good
MOON 2%
22:00–00:00
Friday · 14 Aug
6
Clouded out
MOON 6%
Saturday · 15 Aug
100
Excellent
MOON 12%
00:00–01:00
Sunday · 16 Aug
100
Excellent
MOON 19%
00:00–01:00
Monday · 17 Aug
91
Excellent
MOON 28%
00:00–01:00
Tuesday · 18 Aug
80
Excellent
MOON 37%
00:00–01:00
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About this forecast

Conditions for Tuomuwusitang, China 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 →