A field board for clear nights.

Forecasts, sky charts, satellite loops, radar, sky quality, and all-sky views for the sites I check before setting up.

NOAA GOES-East Northeast loop.

GeoColor keeps the cloud view useful through day and night.

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NOAA GOES-East Northeast GeoColor satellite animation covering New Jersey
Now 4 observing sites 3 forecast sources Live sky monitor

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Experimental feature. Use caution and confirm conditions with your own sky, local forecast, and radar before setting up.

Tonight at a glance

Live observing conditions for Sewell, NJ.

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Gathering forecast, alerts, and overnight conditions.

Live NWS Selected site Smoke
Clouds ... Waiting for NWS sky cover.
Rain ... Waiting for precipitation chance.
Wind ... Waiting for wind forecast.
Dew ... Waiting for dew point spread.
Humidity ... Waiting for RH trend.
Moon ... Calculated in browser.

Astronomy time

Calculating sunrise, twilight, and dark-sky timing.

NOAA method
Current sky phase ...

Waiting for location.

Sun ...
Moon now ...

Calculating moon altitude and phase.

Moon ...
Sunset
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Astronomical dark
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Dark window
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Sunrise
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Moonrise
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Moonset
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Moonless imaging
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Filter bias
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Civil dusk ...
Nautical dusk ...
Astronomical dusk ...
Astronomical dawn ...
Nautical dawn ...
Civil dawn ...

Hourly observing window

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Open NWS point

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Dew control Waiting for dew point spread.
Closest spread
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Lowest temp
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Highest dew point
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NJAA Sky Monitor

Weather, SQM, and all-sky camera

NJAA Weather Graph

NJAA weather graph

Sky Quality Meter

NJAA sky quality meter readings

NELM Graph

NJAA naked-eye limiting magnitude graph

MPASS Graph

NJAA MPASS graph

SkyEye

NJAA SkyEye camera

Clouds, radar, and the wider sky.

Satellite and radar loops kept close to the observing forecast board.

Raw signals and aviation.

Deeper checks for forecast agreement, alerts, smoke, and local reference aviation data.

Forecast agreement

Waiting for the selected site's forecast signals.

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NWS alerts

Checking active alerts.

Open alerts

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Local airport observations

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Open METAR

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Local TAF windows

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Open TAF

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Weather source credits.

This page brings together outside observing forecasts and chart images with local dashboard calculations.

Other data and chart sources