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Votkinsk

57.049° N   53.987° E  ·  85 M
60 /100
PEAK
Worth setting up — 2 hours of workable sky from 00:00.
BEST WINDOW 00:00–02:00 · NO ASTRO DARK · MOON 0%
Transparency
0.47
Seeing
0.91
Cloud
16%
Moon
0%
At this latitude the sun never drops 18° below the horizon tonight, so astronomical darkness never arrives. Scores reflect the deepest twilight available.

Good tonight

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

Sky state
Lighter = daylight and twilight  ·  unshaded = astronomical dark
Score
21
22
23
00
01
02
03
04
0
16
52
60
47
33
5
0
BEST WINDOW
Low cloud
1%
1%
6%
6%
2%
8%
4%
0%
Mid cloud
53%
55%
6%
7%
23%
23%
70%
97%
High cloud
9%
17%
9%
14%
31%
41%
84%
100%
Transparency
0.51
0.47
0.47
0.45
0.42
0.38
0.10
0.10
Seeing
0.94
0.91
0.88
0.87
0.87
0.91
0.88
0.77
Moon clear
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
21 Clouded out · 0/100
Starting from
100
Cloud
−51
Transparency
−10
Seeing
−1
Moonlight
−0
Darkness
−39
Score
0
CLOUD 57% LOW 1% MID 53% HIGH 9% SUN -6.0° MOON -4.5° / 0% WIND 3 TEMP 18°
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 22:30 · OBSERVE 23:00–02:00 · 3H · MEAN 51

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

21230103
CLOUD BREAKS 23:00TWILIGHT BEGINS 02:00
SET UP 22:30 · OBSERVE 23:00–03:00 · 4H · MEAN 58

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

21230103
CLOUD BREAKS 23:00CLOUD RETURNS 03:00MOONLIGHT IGNORED FOR THIS TARGET
SET UP 22:30 · OBSERVE 23:00–02:00 · 3H · MEAN 48

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

21230103
CLOUD BREAKS 23:00TWILIGHT BEGINS 02:00
SET UP 22:30 · OBSERVE 23:00–01:00 · 2H · MEAN 43

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

21230103
CLOUD BREAKS 23:00CLOUD RETURNS 01:00
SET UP 22:30 · OBSERVE 23:00–02:00 · 3H · MEAN 52

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

21230103
CLOUD BREAKS 23:00TWILIGHT BEGINS 02:00
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The next week of nights

Tonight · 12 Aug
60
Good
MOON 0%
00:00–02:00
Tomorrow · 13 Aug
52
Fair
MOON 2%
00:00–02:00
Friday · 14 Aug
57
Good
MOON 6%
00:00–03:00
Saturday · 15 Aug
15
Poor
MOON 13%
Sunday · 16 Aug
37
Fair
MOON 21%
Monday · 17 Aug
21
Poor
MOON 30%
Tuesday · 18 Aug
32
Poor
MOON 39%
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About this forecast

Conditions for Votkinsk, Russia 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 →