Are there API's that provide simple information on if it's a good night for astronomy? I am totally blind, but would like to know when it's a good night for my kids to use there telescope. I don't use a Mac as my primary machine, and xasteria is not accessible.
Hi jareds - your reply prompted me to look at what accessibility options are already in Nightwatch, as I'm ashamed to say I'd not done enough in this respect.
Keyboard navigation, the ability to change text-size, and voiceover support will all be in the next version.
In addition to the sibling:
https://www.astrospheric.com/
https://observingwindow.com/
https://clearskys.app/
Hi - the seeing and transparency information in Nightwatch come from 7Timer and Open-Meteo, and both publish free APIs.
clearoutside.com, which is pretty reasonable at predicting cloud cover, says it gets the data from Meteosource.