Aurora Alerts - Northern Light

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About this app

Aurora Alerts is an app designed to monitor real-time auroral activity and push alert to let you know if there may be aurora borealis (northern lights) visible tonight. Whenever you are home or away, Aurora Alerts will notify you if the possibility of seeing the northern lights exists.

Main features:
- short-term aurora forecast for next hour with weather conditions and moon Illumination
- long-term aurora forecast for the next 3 days with weather conditions
- long-term northern lights forecast for the next 27 days
- show probability to see Northern Lights based on your or custom location
- current auroral activity (based on observed and predicted Kp Indices from U.S. Air Force Weather Agency)
- weather forecast to check visibility conditions before planning to see northern lights
- solar wind data directly from the NASA satellite (wind speed, Bz, Bt and density)
- unlike many other apps, it uses the local time instead of UTC

Alerts:
- when northern lights may be visible at current or custom location at the horizon or overhead
- Kp index reaches chosen value
- solar wind data reach chosen values
- you can filter out alerts based on time of the day

Boost your chances of viewing the northern lights!

Ratings and reviews

The info the app displays is actually pretty helpful. But DO NOT BUY the paid alerts, they simply do not work. I bought the Local Aurora Alert and set it to 10% overhead. Last night it got up to 88% overhead but the app never alerted me, so I missed seeing it! All of the app settings and notifications seem to be set up, yet I've never once received any push notification.

The data headings on the graph page beneath the oval image are way too tiny to read so the graphs and data provided are useless. No ability to enlarge this screen. I'm giving 3 stars for that feature alone. I just downloaded the app so I'm not able to review on the accuracy and ability to recieve notifications at this time. Update: I have stopped getting notifications even though alert parameters are set low and permissions given to recieve them. I've changed nothing. Why?

I've been having the app for about a month, and today, I finally made purchases for everything, alerts, long forecasts, and everything from there. Nothing shows for me anymore. After a couple of hours, I finally uninstall and reinstall restart my device. I've only got the alerts page to show for me. Seems like when I made the purchases on this app today. Everything just went downhill from there. And there's no customer service number or anything to reach out to figure out how to fix this.

What's new

- minor bug fixes