Space Waste · Sky Ops

Stargazing Conditions

TONIGHT'S OBSERVING FORECAST · CLOUDS · DARKNESS · MOON

Pick a location or use your own to pull tonight's sky.
STANDBY
The verdict scores average cloud cover during true astronomical darkness: GO under 25%, CAUTION to 60%, NO-GO above. Moonlight is reported separately, bright moon washes out deep-sky targets but planets and the Moon itself don't care.
Cloud cover tonight · 18:00 → 06:00 local
bar height = total cloud coveramber base = astronomical darkness window
Darkness window
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True darkness runs from astronomical dusk to astronomical dawn, when the Sun sits more than 18° below the horizon.
Moon (computed)
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Best hour tonight
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Least cloud inside the darkness window.
Ground conditions at midnight
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DATA · Open-Meteo (clouds, wind, humidity, visibility) · sunrise-sunset.org (twilight) · Moon phase computed onboard from the mean synodic month, good to a few hours · Times shown in the selected location's clock
While you're out there: bright "stars" that drift are satellites, and some of them are on their way down.
Track what's overhead → Reentry Log →