🌌 Aurora Dashboard

Live NOAA OVATION + Kp + solar wind + clouds, centered on your house
Live fetch
Your location
(initializing…)
Marker is your house; aurora layer is global.
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Map Drag to pan, wheel/pinch to zoom. Toggle clouds in the map control.
Geomagnetic activity (Kp) Fetched: —
— Kp
Waiting for NOAA data…
No data
Source NOAA planetary K-index JSON
Solar wind (DSCOVR / ACE) Fetched: —
Live upstream conditions (~1 min cadence). Bz south + fast wind = good.
IMF Bz (GSM)
— nT
No data
Solar wind Speed: — km/s • Density: — /cm³
Aurora probability (OVATION) Updated: —
Colored grid near poles ≈ probability of seeing aurora in the next ~30 min.
≥ 10%
≥ 25%
≥ 50%
≥ 75%
≥ 90%
Notes
  • Kp ≈ 5+ puts Colorado in play; 7–8 is where it gets wild.
  • OVATION is a 30-minute forecast from upstream solar-wind data.
  • Solar wind panel is more “live” than Kp; watch Bz + speed.
  • Cloud layer is from OpenWeather – treat it as recent, not perfect.