Aurora Forecast 3D

TheAuroraForecast3Disatooltotrackdownwheretheauroraislocatedintheskyfromanylocationonplanet.ItrendersEarthin3Dwithrotationandscalingatyourfingertips.Youcanselectlocationsandmakeyourownground-stationlist.TheSunilluminatestheglobeasitupdatesinnearreal-time.Theshorttermforecastsareupto6hours,whilethelongtermforecastsareupto3daysaheadintime.Theyareupdatedwhentheappisactiveandconnectedtointernet.AnAuroraCompassisincludedthatshowswheretheauroraloval[1,2],theMoonandtheSunarelocatedasyoulookupattheskyfromyourlocation.ThephaseandageoftheMoonisalsovisualizedinthecompass.Byzoomingoutinthe3Dviewport,satellites,starsandplanetsappearintheirorbits[3]aroundtheSun.FEATURES-3DviewportofEarth.-SolarilluminationoftheEarthandtheMoon.-Auroraovalsizeandlocationinrealtime.-DaysidelocationoftheredCusp.-ForecastsbasedonpredictedKpindexestimatedbytheSpaceWeatherPredictionCentre(NOAA-SWPC).-Includesa2.4millionstarmap[4].-Citylighttexture[5].-Earth,SunandMoontextures[6,7].-Skyviewmoduletotrackplanetsandstars[8].-3-dayspaceweatherconditionforecastasnewsticker.-Two-LineElement(TLE)satelliteorbitcalculations[9].-Skyviewnavigation.-3DLaserStarpointertoidentifystarsigns.-Soundingrockettrajectories.-SunandMoondailyelevationplotswithriseandsettime.-Epochselectionformagneticpoleposition[10]-Ovalsbasedonpolarorbitingsatellitesdata[11]-Targetweblinksaddedtosatellites,stars,planetsandposition.-All-skycameralinkstotheBorealAuroraCameraConstellation(BACC).-Skycoloranimation[12,13].-ZhangandPaxtonovalsadded[14]-Youtubedemonstration.References[1]SigernesF.,M.Dyrland,P.Brekke,S.Chernouss,D.A.Lorentzen,K.Oksavik,andC.S.Deehr,Twomethodstoforecastauroraldisplays,JournalofSpaceWeatherandSpaceClimate(SWSC),Vol.1,No.1,A03,DOI:10.1051/swsc/2011003,2011.[2]StarkovG.V.,Mathematicalmodeloftheauroralboundaries,GeomagnetismandAeronomy,34(3),331-336,1994.[3]P.Schlyter,Howtocomputeplanetarypositions,http://stjarnhimlen.se/,Stockholm,Sweden.[4]Bridgman,T.andWright,E.,TheTychoCatalogSkymap-Version2.0,NASA/GoddardSpaceFlightCenterScientificVisualizationStudio,http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3572,January26,2009.[5]TheVisibleEarthcatalog,http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/,NASA/GoddardSpaceFlightCenter,April-October,2012.[6]T.Patterson,NaturalEarthIII-TextureMaps,http://www.shadedrelief.com,October1,2016.[7]Nexus-PlanetTextures,http://www.solarsystemscope.com/nexus/,January4,2013.[8]Hoffleit,D.andWarren,Jr.,W.H.,TheBrightStarCatalog,5thRevisedEdition(PreliminaryVersion),AstronomicalDataCenter,NSSDC/ADC,1991.[9]Vallado,DavidA.,PaulCrawford,RichardHujsak,andT.S.Kelso,RevisitingSpacetrackReport#3,AIAA/AAS-2006-6753,https://celestrak.com,2006.[10]Tsyganenko,N.A.,Seculardriftoftheauroralovals:Howfastdotheyactuallymove?,GeophysicalResearchLetters,46,3017-3023,2019.[11]M.J.Breedveld,PredictingtheAuroralOvalBoundariesbyMeansofPolarOperationalEnvironmentalSatelliteParticlePrecipitationData,Masterthesis,DepartmentofPhysicsandTechnology,FacultyofScienceandTechnology,TheArcticUniversityofNorway,June2020.[12]Perez,R.,J,M.SealsandB.Smith,Anall-weathermodelforskyilluminancedistribution,SolarEnergy,1993.[13]Preetham,A.J,P.ShirleyandB.Smith,ApracticalmodelfordaylightComputerGraphics,(SIGGRAPH99Proceedings),91-100,1999.[14]ZhangY.,andL.J.Paxton,AnempiricalKp-dependentglobalauroralmodelbasedonTIMED/GUVIdata,J.Atm.Solar-Terr.Phys.,70,1231-1242,2008.