Aurora Tonight · iOS and Android
Aurora forecasts, local clouds and a clearer answer for the night ahead.
Space-weather snapshot · KP 2.7 · quiet geomagnetic conditions
. This is not a local viewing forecast.
Coming to iPhone and Android. Store listings are being prepared.
Preview website · Illustrative artwork
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The app sums up tonight with one of these four answers. If data is missing, it says so instead of guessing.
Explore
Real app screens with example conditions.
01
Start with the outlook. Space weather, cloud and darkness come together in one headline, with a viewing window in your local time.
Want the detail? Expand KP, Bz and solar-wind trends. Every reading shows how old it is, and missing data is shown as missing.
02
See the estimated aurora oval, forecast cloud and nearby dark-sky places on one map. Scrub ahead to see how conditions change through the night.
Compare nearby spots, check a webcam and explore community sightings before you travel.
03
Understand KP, southward Bz and the darkness window in short lessons. The numbers make more sense when you know what changes the outlook.
Ask Aurora explains space weather with available fresh readings. It uses Anthropic’s AI with your permission, and answers can be wrong.
Alerts with your own KP threshold and quiet hours, delivered on iOS; Android remote alerts are not available in the current release. Chase Mode turns the phone into a full-screen compass toward the aurora sector when activity is high. Where it is offered, Aurora Tonight Pro is a subscription for unlimited alert rules.
FAQ
The app shows each reading’s age. Delayed data is labelled last known; a dash means no reading. Forecasts depend on changing activity, darkness, clouds and your horizon.
No. Choose a region or search for a place. Automatic location requests use rounded coordinates, roughly a kilometre. Tagging a community sighting is a deliberate public sharing action. See the Privacy Policy for the full details.
Both have Tonight, Map, Learn and community sightings. Remote alerts are unavailable in the current Android build. iPhone includes alert rules, widgets and Live Activities; delivery still depends on permissions and fresh data.
With your permission, your question and available fresh KP/Bz readings go through our server to Anthropic. Automatic coordinates are excluded. Avoid personal information and check important answers against the original sources.
About
Aurora Tonight is an independent app. There are no accounts, no advertising and no third-party trackers in the apps. The forecast decisions are made on our own server from public space-weather data and Open-Meteo weather forecasts, and the apps show what the server knows, including when it doesn’t know.
Aurora Tonight’s support contact is aurora.support@mail.instinct.com. The Support page covers alerts, stale readings, purchases and deletion requests.
