The Aurora Sky
Signals

Reading the sky, six ways

Start with whether you can see it tonight — then the same geomagnetic storm through five more questions: what drives it, where it's likely, how far south it reaches, and how it's moved. Each is its own quiet, moving picture.

01 Tonight · can I see it

Can I see it tonight?

A straight answer for your location — with the numbers, cloud and moon, and the best odds elsewhere.

02 The driver · why

What's driving it — the solar wind

A stream from the Sun that ignites the moment its magnetic field turns south.

03 The map · where

Where the aurora is likely, right now

The northern auroral zone unrolled by longitude, brightening city by city.

04 From above · where

The auroral oval, from above

Looking straight down at the pole — each spoke a region of the world.

05 The reach · how far

How far south it reaches tonight

A curtain hanging from the pole, dropping over the cities it can be seen from.

06 The record · lately

How Kp has moved — and where it's headed

Three days of readings flowing through now into the three-day forecast — the whole arc on one line.

the coda · just watch

The sky, alive

Real space-weather driving a piece of generative art — no charts, no numbers, just the sky moving.

Built on NOAA / SWPC open data — the OVATION aurora model, the planetary Kp index, real-time solar wind, and the 3-day forecast. Until the pipeline is live, each picture runs on an honest, clearly-marked illustrative pattern.