A bright comet with a long dust tail suspended in a deep blue starry sky above the rocky crags of Eldorado Canyon and the Boulder Flatirons.
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Eldorado Canyon, Colorado · Comet tail in deep twilight

What it checks

Seeing and transparency

Weighted toward seeing, because steady air decides fine detail.

The jet stream

Upper-level wind shear is the usual cause of soft stars on a clear night.

The moon and your sky

Scattered moonlight at the zenith, measured against the darkness of your site.

Dew and wind

Condensation risk and gusts that shake a tracking mount.

What you see

Hourly seeing, transparency and dew timeline

97·Boulder, CO · Sharp Seeing & Dry Air

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7-night Deep-Sky outlook

97·4.9/5 Seeing · Above Avg Transparency

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