Astrospheric Help
Astrospheric provides powerful weather forecasting tools and community features for astronomers and astrophotographers in
North America. The topics below will get you up and running with the Astrospheric basics.
Astrospheric Basics
- Astrospheric FAQs
- Forecast Domain (where does Astrospheric work?)
- Supported Devices and OSs
- Reading the forecast
- Change your forecast location
- Map controls
- Sign in to Astrospheric
- Saving Favorites
- Share Community Favorites
- Smoke Forecast
- Eclipse Info
- Moon Details
- Astronomical Clock
- Astronomy Calendar
Weather Variables
Astrospheric Professional Edition
Astrospheric API
Data Sources and Library usage
Canadian Meteorological Centre (CMC)
Data provided by the Canadian Meteorological Centre, Environment and Climate Change Canada.
NOAA
Data courtesy of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), U.S. Department of Commerce.
EUMETSAT
Satellite data and imagery provided by the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological
Satellites (EUMETSAT).
ICON Weather Model
Data from the ICON model provided by the Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD), the German National Meteorological
Service.
NASA
Data and imagery courtesy of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
MapLibre GL JS
Map framework powered by MapLibre GL JS (BSD-3-Clause), a community fork of Mapbox GL JS. Astrospheric ships a customized fork that adds buffered-edge raster tile rendering.
Map Tiles (OpenStreetMap)
Base-map tiles built from OpenStreetMap contributor data. © OpenStreetMap contributors.
globe.gl
Aurora visualizations powered by globe.gl by Vasturiano.
Astronomy Engine.js
Astronomical calculations powered by Astronomy Engine by Cosine Kitty.