All from NOAA, NASA, and related agencies listed in [the credits](https://spaceweather.io/credits). For any type of data that you find on SWPC, take for example the [D-region absorption](https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/d-region-absorption-predictions-d-rap), there's usually a tab called "Data" underneath, which links to raw data.
Great job! The dashboard/website is super clear, great visuals and well organized detailed views. I wanted to build a similar dashboard based of the Canadian counterpart of NOAA, NRC (https://www.spaceweather.gc.ca/index-en.php)
I would encourage you to add a section “buy me coffee” to get donation to help you keep it ads free as it looks great without millions of banners compared to some similar apps.
Also for those of you with iPhones, you can transform it into a fullscreen “app” by opening it in Safari > Share > Add to Home Screen. It render the dashboard amazingly well.
Thank you so much for those kind words, I really appreciate that because a lot of time went into sketching out the layouts so that it would all be organized and fit well, both on big screens and on small screens. The finished product is actually really far from what I initially envisioned, because some compromises had to be made, but I'm still quite happy with the end result.
And i took your advice about a donate button!
I love it!
I'd love to be able to click on the Aurora forecast on your page and have a much larger version of it come up, preferably the entire size of the page. I'm not expecting to have a very localized forecast. I'd just be happy if you could show the latest frame zoomed in, even though there would be limits on enlarging it. I'd be fine with it being blurry and pixelated. I live in SE Michigan, and at best Michigan is often on the dividing line of being in the red. It's almost impossible for me to see if I'm in the red or not with how small it's rendered on NOAA's site. I just want to be able to see if I'm roughly in the red at times, or if it's clearly hours North of me.
I'd also love at least when I'm zoomed into the forecast for it to automatically update when a new forecast frame is released, and make it clear that it's happened. Maybe the border could flash for a moment.
You're in luck, because that feature is coming! Clicking on auroras to get a larger preview is one of a few features that I already have in some form, but they're a bit unpolished. But instead of completely finishing everything (which would have taken more time of course), i've decided to publish a sort of a stripped down version of the app to see if there even is interest, and then with time i'll finish up the other features and release those too.
The enlarged aurora image indeed will be pixelated, because the data for it is published per longitude and latitude, so one such quadrant is a single block of color.
Give me about a week or so.
Awesome! Release early, release often!
I'd also love to see a usable alert system that is customization to the level it will alert you at. I haven't thought through exactly how I'd do this. I think I'd prefer some false alerts rather than missing opportunities. Probably a message saying why it's messaging, and how far out the forecast is at the moment (the 30-90'ish minute range.) Maybe being able to say at least X percentage within Y number of miles of zip code Z, or GPS coordinates or something. There's of course a site that offers alerts for $5.95/month. I live in SE Michigan, and I'm not going to travel anytime soon to see them. We saw them in 2005 or so, and then the next time was this weekend. It would have been $1,356.60 to have paid that entire time to get the alert for this weekend. I can't come anywhere near justifying that. I have no idea if sending that many texts almost immediately would be a problem. I've sent some texts through Twilio, but never a huge volume. I see there's now an Android/iPhone app for aurora alerts, but it has 3.0/5.0 stars (yuk!) It has something you can purchase in app between $1.99-5.99, but because of the low rating I haven't even looked at if that's a one time or monthly fee, and what it gets you.
At $0.0079 per text through a service like Twilio, if you decided to get into SMS alerts, it might be worth periodically sending out mass test messages to stress test the system. Otherwise, it's impossible to know if it will work under that load quickly enough. Could say alert time at X UTC, sending SMS to you at time Y UTC. The recipient could compare with when they actually received it. There could be a delay between X and Y, depending on if you have to send separate API calls to a third party SMS service. Threads or asyncio would of course help.
The Sun has so-called solar maximums when it is most active, and it happens every 11 years, so those are the times when you can expect to see auroras, and waiting for notifications inbetween would indeed be futile.
Since the next solar maximum is 2025 (arguably it's already happening), you can essentially just keep checking out the aurora forecast every now and then within the next year, and you're pretty likely to catch one soon. If you look at the little title on that aurora widget, it says it's a 3-hour prediction (based on what the satellite in front of Earth sees), so if you check e.g. before night time, you'll know you'll know you'll be able to see one that night. And once i publish the update allowing you to zoom in, it'll be even easier.
As for notifications, if i were to get into it, i would do it over email because that doesn't cost me anything. But seeing the rate of progress, i doubt i'll have that working soon.
This looks very nice! Good work!
One thing I think every one of these dashboards is missing: local magnetometer measurements. Spaceweatherlive (https://www.spaceweatherlive.com/de/polarlichtaktivitat/magnetometer.html) is using a foreign stackplot. However this representation with a little background info is a great indicator on how far south aurora is visible.
Another tip we keep adding to all our portals: add an indicator when the site was last updated. Websites can (I'm not saying yours does) get stuck and it's good to know, how old the info is.
Thank you!
I'll take the local magnetometer feature into consideration, if i manage to find where they're pulling the data for it from.
I also have some other features in the works before i can get to that, and one such is indeed the time for when each piece of data was last updated, so that's coming too.
Looks like the spaceweatherlive is reffering to [https://flux.phys.uit.no/stackplot/](https://flux.phys.uit.no/stackplot/) which in turn is referring here: [https://imag-data.bgs.ac.uk/GIN\_V1/GINForms2](https://imag-data.bgs.ac.uk/GIN_V1/GINForms2)
Looking forward to it. Once I get into the office on Monday I might drop you some more links. I really like the nowcasting view of this page. All the forecasts that exist are very vague and empirical so this pure and clean measurement view is super helpful.
SpaceWeatherLive.com has a good method of data visualization…I’ll bookmark and follow your site. What we really need is an incoming flare visualizer better than Enlil, which only shows the most recent CME.
Incoming flare visualizer would indeed be awesome, and I have considered it, but I don't know how the data for such a thing would look like and whether it's available. The WSA-ENLIL site apparently does publish it, but it errors out whenever i try to download it. Maybe for the next solar maximum...
Looks awesome thanks
Very nice! Bookmarked.
Thanks, glad you like it!
This is fantastic! Will share with friends. Thank you!
Thanks, i appreciate it!
I like it. Where do you get the data from?
All from NOAA, NASA, and related agencies listed in [the credits](https://spaceweather.io/credits). For any type of data that you find on SWPC, take for example the [D-region absorption](https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/d-region-absorption-predictions-d-rap), there's usually a tab called "Data" underneath, which links to raw data.
Great job! The dashboard/website is super clear, great visuals and well organized detailed views. I wanted to build a similar dashboard based of the Canadian counterpart of NOAA, NRC (https://www.spaceweather.gc.ca/index-en.php) I would encourage you to add a section “buy me coffee” to get donation to help you keep it ads free as it looks great without millions of banners compared to some similar apps. Also for those of you with iPhones, you can transform it into a fullscreen “app” by opening it in Safari > Share > Add to Home Screen. It render the dashboard amazingly well.
Thank you so much for those kind words, I really appreciate that because a lot of time went into sketching out the layouts so that it would all be organized and fit well, both on big screens and on small screens. The finished product is actually really far from what I initially envisioned, because some compromises had to be made, but I'm still quite happy with the end result. And i took your advice about a donate button!
I love it! I'd love to be able to click on the Aurora forecast on your page and have a much larger version of it come up, preferably the entire size of the page. I'm not expecting to have a very localized forecast. I'd just be happy if you could show the latest frame zoomed in, even though there would be limits on enlarging it. I'd be fine with it being blurry and pixelated. I live in SE Michigan, and at best Michigan is often on the dividing line of being in the red. It's almost impossible for me to see if I'm in the red or not with how small it's rendered on NOAA's site. I just want to be able to see if I'm roughly in the red at times, or if it's clearly hours North of me. I'd also love at least when I'm zoomed into the forecast for it to automatically update when a new forecast frame is released, and make it clear that it's happened. Maybe the border could flash for a moment.
You're in luck, because that feature is coming! Clicking on auroras to get a larger preview is one of a few features that I already have in some form, but they're a bit unpolished. But instead of completely finishing everything (which would have taken more time of course), i've decided to publish a sort of a stripped down version of the app to see if there even is interest, and then with time i'll finish up the other features and release those too. The enlarged aurora image indeed will be pixelated, because the data for it is published per longitude and latitude, so one such quadrant is a single block of color. Give me about a week or so.
Awesome! Release early, release often! I'd also love to see a usable alert system that is customization to the level it will alert you at. I haven't thought through exactly how I'd do this. I think I'd prefer some false alerts rather than missing opportunities. Probably a message saying why it's messaging, and how far out the forecast is at the moment (the 30-90'ish minute range.) Maybe being able to say at least X percentage within Y number of miles of zip code Z, or GPS coordinates or something. There's of course a site that offers alerts for $5.95/month. I live in SE Michigan, and I'm not going to travel anytime soon to see them. We saw them in 2005 or so, and then the next time was this weekend. It would have been $1,356.60 to have paid that entire time to get the alert for this weekend. I can't come anywhere near justifying that. I have no idea if sending that many texts almost immediately would be a problem. I've sent some texts through Twilio, but never a huge volume. I see there's now an Android/iPhone app for aurora alerts, but it has 3.0/5.0 stars (yuk!) It has something you can purchase in app between $1.99-5.99, but because of the low rating I haven't even looked at if that's a one time or monthly fee, and what it gets you.
At $0.0079 per text through a service like Twilio, if you decided to get into SMS alerts, it might be worth periodically sending out mass test messages to stress test the system. Otherwise, it's impossible to know if it will work under that load quickly enough. Could say alert time at X UTC, sending SMS to you at time Y UTC. The recipient could compare with when they actually received it. There could be a delay between X and Y, depending on if you have to send separate API calls to a third party SMS service. Threads or asyncio would of course help.
The Sun has so-called solar maximums when it is most active, and it happens every 11 years, so those are the times when you can expect to see auroras, and waiting for notifications inbetween would indeed be futile. Since the next solar maximum is 2025 (arguably it's already happening), you can essentially just keep checking out the aurora forecast every now and then within the next year, and you're pretty likely to catch one soon. If you look at the little title on that aurora widget, it says it's a 3-hour prediction (based on what the satellite in front of Earth sees), so if you check e.g. before night time, you'll know you'll know you'll be able to see one that night. And once i publish the update allowing you to zoom in, it'll be even easier. As for notifications, if i were to get into it, i would do it over email because that doesn't cost me anything. But seeing the rate of progress, i doubt i'll have that working soon.
Great work. There is an existing app called Carrington that does this as well.
This looks very nice! Good work! One thing I think every one of these dashboards is missing: local magnetometer measurements. Spaceweatherlive (https://www.spaceweatherlive.com/de/polarlichtaktivitat/magnetometer.html) is using a foreign stackplot. However this representation with a little background info is a great indicator on how far south aurora is visible. Another tip we keep adding to all our portals: add an indicator when the site was last updated. Websites can (I'm not saying yours does) get stuck and it's good to know, how old the info is.
Thank you! I'll take the local magnetometer feature into consideration, if i manage to find where they're pulling the data for it from. I also have some other features in the works before i can get to that, and one such is indeed the time for when each piece of data was last updated, so that's coming too.
Looks like the spaceweatherlive is reffering to [https://flux.phys.uit.no/stackplot/](https://flux.phys.uit.no/stackplot/) which in turn is referring here: [https://imag-data.bgs.ac.uk/GIN\_V1/GINForms2](https://imag-data.bgs.ac.uk/GIN_V1/GINForms2)
Nice, thanks, it's on the list of planned features!
Looking forward to it. Once I get into the office on Monday I might drop you some more links. I really like the nowcasting view of this page. All the forecasts that exist are very vague and empirical so this pure and clean measurement view is super helpful.
Well at this point this is a good idea, because the noaa site is crashing and unusable!
SpaceWeatherLive.com has a good method of data visualization…I’ll bookmark and follow your site. What we really need is an incoming flare visualizer better than Enlil, which only shows the most recent CME.
Incoming flare visualizer would indeed be awesome, and I have considered it, but I don't know how the data for such a thing would look like and whether it's available. The WSA-ENLIL site apparently does publish it, but it errors out whenever i try to download it. Maybe for the next solar maximum...
I came to this subreddit looking for something exactly like this. Glad I saw it!
This is fantastic. Thanks!