A pale moonbow arcing through mist below Cumberland Falls at night

Cumberland Falls Moonbow LiveFriday, January 2

TOO EARLY TO CALL

1 live/model sources fresh

Estimated Moonbow Chance45%

Physical score 56/100

Best window: 7:00 PM – 8:40 PM
Arrive by: 6:35 PM
Forecast confidence: LOW 38/100

The astronomy can be planned now, but reliable weather inputs are not available yet.

The Moon is 99% illuminated.
No date-specific cloud forecast is available; weather is not being presented as live.
Low mist proxy from 183 CFS (11th seasonal percentile).
The Moon clears the effective terrain and tree skyline. Peak physical score is 56.

USGS 3DEP cached horizonnot live

USGS station 03404500updated 68 min ago

NWS forecast grid JKL 28,14updated 67 min ago

NOAA HRRR 3 km via Open-Meteounavailable

Peak 7:30 PM · Physical score 56 · 100 min sustained window

Photo: Design219 / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0

Interactive moonbow diorama

See why this time works

Scrub the evening, then tap a feature to understand the geometry.

Viewing time7:30 PM

Geometry is workingPhysical score 56/100

Moonbow zone

A primary moonbow appears roughly 40–42° from the anti-lunar point. The brighter this arc appears here, the better the modeled bow-to-mist alignment.

Explore the night5:00 PM → 6:00 AM

Moon altitude28.9°

Bow/mist error0.7°

Mist placement86/100

Cloud transmission16/100

Physical score56/100

This is an explanatory diorama, not a literal camera view. The engine itself uses topocentric Moon position, the 40–42° primary-bow geometry, the cached local skyline and a modeled mist volume at five-minute resolution.

Five-minute engine

Tonight timeline

The Moon clears the effective terrain and tree skyline. The Moon climbs above viable primary-bow geometry.

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See why this time works

Tonight timeline

Moon + geometry

Moonlight path

River + mist

Why tonight

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