Something says "unavailable"
Polar Lights relies on NOAA, NASA and other services; when one is down, the app says so and catches up by itself.
The forecast is built from live data published by NOAA, NASA, ESA, GFZ, EUMETSAT and Open-Meteo. Now and then one of them is slow or down for maintenance. Rather than guess, Polar Lights tells you which part is missing, and fills it in again as soon as the data is back. You don't need to do anything.
| What you see | What's missing |
|---|---|
| Forecast unavailable on the Tonight card | NOAA's aurora forecast, so tonight's chance can't be worked out. |
| Live data unavailable at the top of Now | NOAA's live Kp and solar wind. |
| Aurora data is unavailable right now on the map | NOAA's aurora forecast for the map. |
| Solar activity data is unavailable right now | The solar wind measurements from L1. |
| Time-lapse unavailable right now | The saved Sun images. |
If one part stays unavailable for more than a few hours while the rest of the app works, let us know.
Sun images can also simply be an hour or more old. See Why are some Sun images an hour old?