In the useful links post I set some links that can help us in that regard. A personal recommendation is to bookmark those pages in your smartphones before going out to chase the lights, and just tap on the bookmark whenever you are out in the cold. However, there are eager developers that have created fantastic apps that do the work for us, and give all the information in a single place.
I am an Android user, so I can talk from experience with the Android apps, but for iPhone apps, I have a really limited view (only comments from fellow photographers).
Android smartphones and tablets:
Just checking the Google Play store results for "aurora app", we get several options (click on the name for the Play Store description):
- Aurora forecast (by TINAC Inc): This app is a full-functioning piece of software. The main window shows a real-time picture of the sun, estimations of solar winds (the stronger the winds, the more probability for northern lights on the coming days), and the Space Weather Ovation (the same you can see on the top-left of this blog). The "Recent plots" tab shows the activity regarding the Kp-index (indexes above 2 indicate that a light is most likely happening) or the power (in GigaWatts). The "Forecast" tab gives the estimated activity (from 1 to 9) for the coming days, based on the solar activity.
- It also has a paid function ($1.99) which allows to get notifications when the activity is over a threshold value (that you can set yourself).
- Aurora notifier (by BeeBeetle): This app is a simple app: it has an animated auroral ovation with the KP-index, and it has a free notification function where you can set a threshold.
- The premium version offers more detailed information, which is covered by the previous application I commented on
- Aurora buddy (by CombatDave): the free version offers the auroral oval in real time, Kp index and an approximate probability to see the northern light in the strong part of the oval.
- The premium version offers more detailed information, covered mostly by the first application reviewed.
- Norway lights (by Visit Norway): The official app from the tourist office in Norway. Basic and simple: it combines the weather forecast and the northern light forecast, and says "Try" or "go" if it is likely that you will see the lights. It is simple and it works, especially when you do not want to start checking a million indexes, concepts, measurements...
iPhone and iPad:
There are apps that are the same for Android and IOS, so I will refer to the same descriptions above
- Aurora forecast (by TINAC Inc)
- Norway lights (by Visit Norway)
- Aurora (by Roger Moffatt): I have not had the chance to check this app thoroughly, but it gives similar information as the "Aurora Forecast" by TINAC, it is mostly a different layout
Of course, there are plenty of other apps out in the market, I have reviewed the ones that my colleagues and I use during our long nights...
As a bottom line, I would like to add: all these apps use information freely available on the net, so it is counter-intuitive to pay for something that is given for free. Bookmark the websites that give you the best information (www.spaceweather.com and www.swpc.noaa.gov/ovation, for example) and just access them from your smartphone whenever you need them!
Did I miss any interesting app? Is there something missing? Let me know via e-mail or in the facebook page!
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