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Villa Carlos Paz

-31.418° S   64.490° W  ·  702 M
59 /100
PEAK
Worth setting up — 3 hours of workable sky from 04:00.
BEST WINDOW 04:00–07:00 · ASTRO DARK 21:00–07:00 · MOON 0%
Transparency
0.59
Seeing
1.00
Cloud
16%
Moon
0%

Good tonight

Hour by hour, local to Villa Carlos Paz. 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
07
08
0
30
36
23
17
18
36
39
31
43
59
50
17
0
BEST WINDOW
Low cloud
0%
0%
2%
31%
39%
38%
9%
14%
39%
39%
16%
27%
53%
72%
Mid cloud
31%
3%
1%
7%
25%
17%
1%
0%
0%
0%
1%
0%
0%
0%
High cloud
90%
96%
100%
99%
98%
97%
81%
64%
50%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
Transparency
0.71
0.59
0.52
0.43
0.39
0.35
0.31
0.27
0.26
0.26
0.25
0.23
0.22
0.22
Seeing
0.97
1.00
1.00
0.99
1.00
0.99
0.99
1.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
Moon clear
0%
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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
−63
Transparency
−4
Seeing
−0
Moonlight
−0
Darkness
−32
Score
0
CLOUD 91% LOW 0% MID 31% HIGH 90% SUN -2.9° MOON 0.8° / 0% WIND 2 TEMP 9°
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 04:00–07:00 · 3H · MEAN 51

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

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HIGH CLOUD CLEARS 04:00CLOUD RETURNS 07:00
SET UP 00:30 · OBSERVE 01:00–08:00 · 7H · MEAN 50

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

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HIGH CLOUD CLEARS 01:00CLOUD RETURNS 08:00MOONLIGHT IGNORED FOR THIS TARGET
SET UP 03:30 · OBSERVE 04:00–07:00 · 3H · MEAN 47

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

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HIGH CLOUD CLEARS 04:00CLOUD RETURNS 07:00
SET UP 04:30 · OBSERVE 05:00–07:00 · 2H · MEAN 40

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

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CLOUD BREAKS 05:00CLOUD RETURNS 07:00
SET UP 03:30 · OBSERVE 04:00–07:00 · 3H · MEAN 51

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

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HIGH CLOUD CLEARS 04:00CLOUD RETURNS 07:00
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The next week of nights

Tonight · 12 Aug
59
Good
MOON 0%
04:00–07:00
Tomorrow · 13 Aug
0
Clouded out
MOON 3%
Friday · 14 Aug
0
Clouded out
MOON 7%
Saturday · 15 Aug
37
Fair
MOON 15%
21:00–22:00
Sunday · 16 Aug
0
Clouded out
MOON 23%
Monday · 17 Aug
16
Poor
MOON 32%
Tuesday · 18 Aug
81
Excellent
MOON 42%
03:00–04:00
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About this forecast

Conditions for Villa Carlos Paz, Argentina 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 →