Aurora Labs: Aurora Forecast

Aurora Labs AS

About this app

Aurora Labs is proud to present you its brand-new Aurora Forecast app and all its new features!

Now it’s possible to choose a location or to even geolocalise yourself, in order to find out the current weather and auroral conditions in your area and to determine if it’s possible to see the Aurora! Now it’s very easy and fun to see if you should go out (or not) to hunt the Northern Lights, thanks to the colour coded tiles in the app! And no, you don’t need to know what is Bz, Kp, Bt, …

You can also report your successful or unsuccessful experience with seeing the Northern Lights. Show your solidarity to people in your region by sending a report right now! Let's become a great Auroral Community!

All the necessary data for forecasting and preparing your next Northern Light hunt - handy, in one single place, in this new app from Aurora Labs! Absolutely free and no ads!

Aurora forecast for the next few minutes for both Northern and Southern hemispheres, live Kp and solar wind data, 3 days Kp forecast, live Sun images and current and scheduled cloud coverage for the next few hours in multiple regions!

Don't miss the magnificent Northern Lights when you're out and about here in the Arctic! Hunt the Northern Lights professionally!

...And travel to the Arctic differently!

Ratings and reviews

I've been using a few different apps and tools over the last couple years to help me better select opportunities for viewing and taking photos. Very few apps actually do what they advertise and even fewer, do it well. This app has so far met the challenge and become a intrigul tool in my arsenal.

Hard UX. Some cards are clickable, some not—always a lottery will you guess and it will flip. No explanations for terms (e.g. solar wind density and why it's impacting). I like that each feature has color indication, but it's too crowded with colors. Also would be nice to combine all these states and show one card "chance to see aurora in ***" (combine kp, clouds, etc). And would be nice fo have linear map. In general — need some UX work and testing with novice/expert users 🙂

It's been generally accurate when predicting Aurora's, but the time and cloud coverage is WAY off. Most of the time it states that the sun will set at 4am where I live and so I'm not able to report sightings accurately.

What's new

- Improved Android 13 compatibility
- Fixed timezone calculation for sunrise/sunset
- Improved the data retrieval process
- Fixed other minor bugs