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(1.8) • Price Drop! ---> I want each and every one of you to get a chance to see the aurora, so Look North Pro is now only $9.99 a year, down from $14.99. Existing subscribers keep their access and move to the lower price at renewal :) • Added the ability to redeem offer codes directly in the app • General bug fixes and UI improvements (1.7) Big update for you, it's been a while! • Early Substorm Watches---> Pro users can now see when magnetic energy is loading before aurora activity begins, including a Machine Learning driven substorm onset probability model so you can always be ready for the show. • Real-Time Sighting Reports---> During active aurora events, you can quickly report whether you are seeing aurora right now, and see if anyone at similar latitudes to you has reported a sighting yet. • More Personalized Storm Cards---> Cards now better factor in details from your live location, cloud cover, smoke and haze, moonlight, light pollution, and sunset/moonrise timing, all to provide much more custom and personal local visibility guidance. • Naked Eye or Camera?---> During strong storms, Look North can now help tell you whether aurora is likely to be visible to your eyes, better suited for a night-mode photo, or still too far north. • Smarter Alert Location---> Use your current location, set a manual alert location, or turn on optional Travel Updates so alerts match where you'll actually be watching. • Go North Feedback---> You can now send private feedback about Go North viewing spots to flag access, safety, view, or light-pollution issues. • Science Copy and Reliability Improvements---> Updated solar-wind source language, clearer aurora science explanations, morning-after storm recaps, and other behind-the-scenes fixes. (1.6) • "Did You See It" Improvements--->After an aurora event ends, share your photos and tell us how bright it looked! Your sightings help us improve detection accuracy for everyone. v1.6 adds the ability to tell us when you DIDN't see anything, as well as automatic time and location detection from submitted photos. • Expanded Onboarding Flow--->New users now get a friendly walkthrough of all of the space weather data sources that Look North tracks so that they don't have to! • Shiny new App icon! • Reliability Improvements--->Behind-the-scenes fixes and various bugs squashed. (1.5) • Did You See It?--->After an aurora event ends, share your photos and tell us how bright it looked! Your sightings help us improve detection accuracy for everyone. • Reliability Improvements--->Behind-the-scenes fixes for longer and overlapping storm systems. (1.4) New Feature Alert! Go North, an industry leading smart aurora viewing location finder! • Go North: Find Your Dark Sky Spot--> Search our database of nearly 30,000 dark sky locations, all scored and ranked by real-time cloud cover, light pollution, drive time from your current location, northern horizon openness, and elevation. Three search ranges let you find a quick weeknight spot nearby, a worthy weekend drive, or a big adventure to the darkest skies available for the trip of a lifetime. • Plan Your Trip--> When a storm watch is active, see hourly cloud cover forecasts for specific storm dates. Save your favorite viewing spots in go North as bookmarks for quick access anytime. Plan trips for upcoming storm nights and get reminder notifications the day before and morning of your trip. • Custom Pins--> Long-press anywhere on the map to drop a pin and instantly see the full forecast, sky quality, northern horizon visualization, weather conditions, and driving distance for that exact location in Go North. Save custom pins alongside your other favorite spots. • Moon Phase Context--> Moon phase and illumination are now shown for each viewing date. A bright moon can wash out faint aurora, so you can pick darker nights when possible. Strong storms are still visible even under a full moon.
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Aurora alerts that actually mean something to YOU. No graphs, no jargon. Just an alert when it's time to go outside. Most aurora apps send generic alerts whether the storm can reach you, the sky is clear, or it's even dark. Look North handles the science and tells you when to go outside, start planning, or relax. PERSONALIZED TO YOU, NOT TO EVERYONE Before sending an alert, Look North checks whether the storm can reach your latitude, whether your sky is clear enough, and whether it is dark. Storm cards also factor in wildfire smoke and haze, moonlight, light pollution, daylight, and local viewing reach. Someone in Kansas gets a different message than someone in Norway during the same storm, because the same event means something different depending on where you're standing. REAL-TIME SUBSTORM DETECTION Look North monitors Earth's magnetic field using geosynchronous satellites and detects magnetic signatures of substorm activity. Substorms can intensify auroral displays and push them farther south. Look North tells you when that activity is underway and how the storm's current reach lines up with your location. EARLY SUBSTORM WATCHES (PRO) Before a substorm begins, magnetic energy can load into Earth's night side. Look North Pro can show an Early Substorm Watch and the probability that similar past loading patterns produced a detected substorm within the next hour. LIVE SIGHTING REPORTS During active events, quickly report what you see. Live reports appear on storm cards. When enough naked-eye reports exist, the card shows whether sightings have reached your latitude, are just north, or remain farther north. NAKED EYE OR CAMERA? During strong storms, Look North can help separate what your eyes might see from what a night-mode photo may catch. If aurora may be too faint for naked-eye color but possible on camera, the app says so. TRACK MULTIPLE STORMS AT ONCE When solar events overlap, Look North tracks them together, sorted by urgency. Each has its own timeline and a morning-after recap. ALERTS THAT FOLLOW YOU Set your Alert Location manually, use your current location, or turn on optional Travel Updates so alerts and sky guidance match where you'll be watching. GO NORTH: FIND YOUR DARK SKY SPOT You got the alert. Now where should you go? Go North searches nearly 30,000 dark sky locations across the US and Canada and ranks them for your conditions. Sites are scored using live clouds, light pollution, sky darkness, drive time, and northern horizon terrain. Choose Nearby, Worth the Drive, or Big Adventure. Forecast mode shows hourly clouds for the overnight viewing window. Drop a pin to score your own spot, or send private feedback about access, safety, views, and light pollution. FOLLOW THE FULL JOURNEY FROM SUN TO SKY A solar flare can be followed by an Earth-directed coronal mass ejection, or CME. If it reaches Earth and drives geomagnetic activity, aurora may follow. Look North Pro tracks each stage, giving you hours or days to plan. THE 5-PHASE ALERT SYSTEM (PRO) Phase 1: Solar flare detected; checking for an Earth-directed CME Phase 2: Earth-directed CME confirmed, with a live arrival countdown Phase 3: Geomagnetic storm watch issued before possible arrival Phase 4: The disturbance reaches Earth and conditions are watched in real time Phase 5: Substorm activity detected. Time to look North. WHAT EVERY USER GETS FREE Phase 5 go-outside-now alerts, tuned to your location and sky Severe storm alerts for rare G4+ events Latitude-aware live sighting reports Top-ranked dark sky spot from Go North Home screen and lock screen widgets Live satellite imagery and map overlays Plain-English aurora education Look North Pro is available for $9.99 annually. Free users get real aurora alerts, personalized to their location, at no cost, forever. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
What's new · 1.8
(1.8) • Price Drop! ---> I want each and every one of you to get a chance to see the aurora, so Look North Pro is now only $9.99 a year, down from $14.99. Existing subscribers keep their access and move to the lower price at renewal :) • Added the ability to redeem offer codes directly in the app • General bug fixes and UI improvements (1.7) Big update for you, it's been a while! • Early Substorm Watches---> Pro users can now see when magnetic energy is loading before aurora activity begins, including a Machine Learning driven substorm onset probability model so you can always be ready for the show. • Real-Time Sighting Reports---> During active aurora events, you can quickly report whether you are seeing aurora right now, and see if anyone at similar latitudes to you has reported a sighting yet. • More Personalized Storm Cards---> Cards now better factor in details from your live location, cloud cover, smoke and haze, moonlight, light pollution, and sunset/moonrise timing, all to provide much more custom and personal local visibility guidance. • Naked Eye or Camera?---> During strong storms, Look North can now help tell you whether aurora is likely to be visible to your eyes, better suited for a night-mode photo, or still too far north. • Smarter Alert Location---> Use your current location, set a manual alert location, or turn on optional Travel Updates so alerts match where you'll actually be watching. • Go North Feedback---> You can now send private feedback about Go North viewing spots to flag access, safety, view, or light-pollution issues. • Science Copy and Reliability Improvements---> Updated solar-wind source language, clearer aurora science explanations, morning-after storm recaps, and other behind-the-scenes fixes. (1.6) • "Did You See It" Improvements--->After an aurora event ends, share your photos and tell us how bright it looked! Your sightings help us improve detection accuracy for everyone. v1.6 adds the ability to tell us when you DIDN't see anything, as well as automatic time and location detection from submitted photos. • Expanded Onboarding Flow--->New users now get a friendly walkthrough of all of the space weather data sources that Look North tracks so that they don't have to! • Shiny new App icon! • Reliability Improvements--->Behind-the-scenes fixes and various bugs squashed. (1.5) • Did You See It?--->After an aurora event ends, share your photos and tell us how bright it looked! Your sightings help us improve detection accuracy for everyone. • Reliability Improvements--->Behind-the-scenes fixes for longer and overlapping storm systems. (1.4) New Feature Alert! Go North, an industry leading smart aurora viewing location finder! • Go North: Find Your Dark Sky Spot--> Search our database of nearly 30,000 dark sky locations, all scored and ranked by real-time cloud cover, light pollution, drive time from your current location, northern horizon openness, and elevation. Three search ranges let you find a quick weeknight spot nearby, a worthy weekend drive, or a big adventure to the darkest skies available for the trip of a lifetime. • Plan Your Trip--> When a storm watch is active, see hourly cloud cover forecasts for specific storm dates. Save your favorite viewing spots in go North as bookmarks for quick access anytime. Plan trips for upcoming storm nights and get reminder notifications the day before and morning of your trip. • Custom Pins--> Long-press anywhere on the map to drop a pin and instantly see the full forecast, sky quality, northern horizon visualization, weather conditions, and driving distance for that exact location in Go North. Save custom pins alongside your other favorite spots. • Moon Phase Context--> Moon phase and illumination are now shown for each viewing date. A bright moon can wash out faint aurora, so you can pick darker nights when possible. Strong storms are still visible even under a full moon.
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