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I like taking photos of the aurora, and I often use NOAA's forecasts to plan sightings. I wanted the forecast in a simple non-video format, and was tired of do
by dekerta 4y ago
I like taking photos of the aurora, and I often use NOAA's forecasts to plan sightings.
I wanted the forecast in a simple non-video format, and was tired of doing the mental math converting from UTC, so I made my own tool to show Kp forecast values (from NOAA) in the user's local timezone. Here it is in case it can be useful to anyone else:
https://auroraoutlook.com https://auroraoutlook.com
Obviously, it's pretty bare bones. You need to have an understanding of which Kp value is needed to see the lights at your latitude. I'm working on adding more features to make it more user friendly
- emsixteen 4y agoNice one. Would be nice to have it location based, not just adjust to timezone. Another great tool from over here that I've made use of a lot is Tromsø Geophysical Observatory's magnetometer stackplots page[1], but not for forecasting obviously. [1] https://flux.phys.uit.no/stackplot/ https://flux.phys.uit.no/stackplot/
- e12e 4y agoSee also https://site.uit.no/spaceweather/data-and-products/aurora/tromso/ https://site.uit.no/spaceweather/data-and-products/aurora/tr...
- codingminds 4y agoA nice page, but I highly suggest to add a hint which timezone it shows. I opened it and was totally frustrated to not knew if it's UTC, my timzone or something else.
- dekerta 4y agoThanks for the suggestion! I'll add that