Vancanneyt Sander Posted December 11, 2020 Author Share Posted December 11, 2020 A big thank you towards Giorgio Herbie and Massimiliano Recchia who completed the Italian language on SpaceWeatherLive! Thanks to their endeavor all Italians can now enjoy SpaceWeatherLive into their own language and all thanks to Giorgio Herbie and Massimiliano Recchia. A big shout-out to them! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vancanneyt Sander Posted January 9, 2021 Author Share Posted January 9, 2021 Introduced last week is another new language for SpaceWeatherLive! Ignasi Martín Translated SpaceWeatherLive into the Catalan language, a big tremendous work he managed to complete in a few weeks time, a big shout out to Ignasi for that! With Catalan, we have now 12 languages for SWL with a thirteenth one in the making. if you would like to see SpaceWeatherLive in your language, sign up on our translation site: https://translate.spaceweatherlive.com 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vancanneyt Sander Posted January 12, 2021 Author Share Posted January 12, 2021 Introduced today is another new language for SpaceWeatherLive! Kari Translated SpaceWeatherLive into the Finnish language, a big tremendous work he managed to complete in a month time, a big shout out to kari for that! With Finnish added, we now have 13 languages for SWL! if you would like to see SpaceWeatherLive in your language, sign up on our translation site: https://translate.spaceweatherlive.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vancanneyt Sander Posted February 6, 2021 Author Share Posted February 6, 2021 We have removed our main alert bar that stated "Current data suggest that it is not possible to see aurora now at middle latitudes". Main reason was that it wasn't very accurate as the middle latitude region is pretty broad and the required Kp index for middle latitudes ranges from 4 to 7. But with that goodbye, we have replaced it with something new and I'm very excited to make it public for the first time ❤️. We have replaced it with warnings for not only the middle latitude, but also the high latitude AND the low latitude (in case we get one hell of a storm in SC25). We know many don't exactly know in which region they are so the alert boxes will also show some cities where chances are rather low, moderate or high within the low/middle/high latitude region. For anyone not knowing which region they are on, we've updated our help item about the low, middle and high latitude to learn about it and to find out to which region (low, middle, high latitude) they belong to. As our calculation method is a bit new and we did a lot of tests, we might have to tweak it a bit during stronger storms (because it's hard to test it in quiet and active conditions ). ps: current alerts on the app will now auto-refresh 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christopher S. Posted February 7, 2021 Share Posted February 7, 2021 In other words, it's a suggestion for where aurora watchers may want to pack up and move to if they want nearly year-round beauty in the sky 😍 In all seriousness, this is above and beyond. Thank you. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vancanneyt Sander Posted February 12, 2021 Author Share Posted February 12, 2021 We've reworked our oval map in the SpaceWeatherLive app and solved some frustrations with it from the past 🙂 . In the new update we've improved the view of the map so that the more northern regions don't look that small anymore on their device. Next we've updated the day/night view with something more solid. But the best feature is something new we've added 🙂 besides looking at the auroral oval on the map, we will now show the odds for viewing aurora in several cities based on current conditions. This before and after picture sure tells enough about the improvements 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vancanneyt Sander Posted February 14, 2021 Author Share Posted February 14, 2021 In the near future we will drop support for older devices and old software, so if you have devices that run versions lower then these below, we encourage to upgrade/update your software/device: Chrome < 60 Firefox < 60 Microsoft Edge < 79 iOS < 10 Android < 6 Internet Explorer Why do we do that? Supporting ancient software makes the codebase larger and we always try to be on the cutting edge with latest web standards and those standards are not available on these old software and devices. Plus because they are old and also not longer maintained, the user who still uses these is very vulnerable for hacks (as these old software didn't receive any security updates in the past few years). With dropped support, this means that if you still use old devices or old software, that the experience of browsing on our site and app is less ideal. Most things will still show up but they can look different or be broken in some parts. So we still encourage to upgrade as soon as possible for your own safety. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vancanneyt Sander Posted March 1, 2021 Author Share Posted March 1, 2021 Introduced today is another new language for SpaceWeatherLive! Monček Lukáš translated SpaceWeatherLive into the Czech language, a big tremendous work he managed to complete in a month time, a big shout out to Lukáš for that! With Czech added, we now have 14 languages for SWL! if you would like to see SpaceWeatherLive in your language, sign up on our translation site: https://translate.spaceweatherlive.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vancanneyt Sander Posted May 7, 2021 Author Share Posted May 7, 2021 App version 1.4.0 is now available in the Apple App Store and Google Play store. We've updated our menu icons in the app and dusted off some solar wind particles in the code. You'll also notice on our main site and also in the app some changes in the pages. We've updated many pages and dome some upgrades of our underlying components. A few noteworthy things: The site has been updated to support bigger screens, so it now uses more of the screen in larger screens. Dropped support for older devices/browsers: Chrome < 60 Firefox < 60 Microsoft Edge < 79 iOS < 10 Android < 6 Internet Explorer Better support for RTL languages Many small changes in many pages 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christopher S. Posted May 8, 2021 Share Posted May 8, 2021 10 hours ago, Vancanneyt Sander said: App version 1.4.0 is now available in the Apple App Store and Google Play store. We've updated our menu icons in the app and dusted off some solar wind particles in the code. You'll also notice on our main site and also in the app some changes in the pages. We've updated many pages and dome some upgrades of our underlying components. A few noteworthy things: The site has been updated to support bigger screens, so it now uses more of the screen in larger screens. Dropped support for older devices/browsers: Chrome < 60 Firefox < 60 Microsoft Edge < 79 iOS < 10 Android < 6 Internet Explorer Better support for RTL languages Many small changes in many pages Perhaps it's finally time to upgrade from my Galaxy S4, lol Otherwise, I'm liking this update. Good stuff, Vancanneyt! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vancanneyt Sander Posted May 8, 2021 Author Share Posted May 8, 2021 6 uren geleden, Christopher S. zei: Perhaps it's finally time to upgrade from my Galaxy S4, lol We like to be cutting edge 🙂 supporting old devices makes it harder to maintain everything and makes it also slower. If we wouldn't have done this in the past we wouldn't have a modern SpaceWeatherLive build with latest web standards and technologies and an app on both iOS and Android. We don't wanne be stuck in a '90s style thingy with non interactive static pages Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vancanneyt Sander Posted May 9, 2021 Author Share Posted May 9, 2021 Time for a new addition to our archive. Since we introduced solar flare alerts back in 2013, we used to store an image of the Sun. Back in that day it started with the now decommissioned SDO pinhole camera (SAM) and later we started to use AIA images and a bit later we introduced AR detection with solar flare alerts. Until now these images where only used for the live alerts and where not available in our archive. So we worked on it to get those images into our already huge archive. When browsing to a date with solar flares, in the list you'll see links to one or more images: Clicking it will open the available imagery: 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vancanneyt Sander Posted June 19, 2021 Author Share Posted June 19, 2021 On the solar cycle progression page we have a new addition: the butterfly diagram. The idea to make it came from a topic of @3gMike where we made our first butterfly diagram and we’re glad to make it available on the site/app as well. The diagram will be update monthly. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
helios Posted June 19, 2021 Share Posted June 19, 2021 5 hours ago, Vancanneyt Sander said: On the solar cycle progression page we have a new addition: the butterfly diagram. The idea to make it came from a topic of @3gMike where we made our first butterfly diagram and we’re glad to make it available on the site/app as well. The diagram will be update monthly. Perhaps I'm blind, but I can't find it on the solar cycle progression page https://www.spaceweatherlive.com/en/solar-activity/solar-cycle.html Would it be possible to add dots for latitudes of M- and X-class flares? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vancanneyt Sander Posted June 19, 2021 Author Share Posted June 19, 2021 You were on the correct page but I made an error which caused the graph to not load. It just has been fixed 🙂 (could need a force cache refresh) I don't see any reason to colorize the dots based on their activity (ABCMX) as it doesn't matter much, and it wouldn't be easy as it's a bit heavy because of the thousands of points and the query to achieve it is complex. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vancanneyt Sander Posted June 21, 2021 Author Share Posted June 21, 2021 😀 We have another feature to announce! 😍 During solar cycles we always want to compare the current cycle against previous cycles, are there any similarities or not? How was SC24 compared to other solar cycles from the past? Well you could look at our page with historical solar cycles and see them all in a timeline but it's not easy to compare. To make life easier we made a solar cycle comparison graph that lets you compare each solar cycle (1 to 25) and compare them all. Standard view is with the last and current cycle but any cycle can be enabled or disabled in the legend. SC25 for example is, up until now, pretty similar to cycle 10. You can find the new chart in Archive -> Solar cycle progression and click on 'historic solar cycles'. (if it isn't shown, the page is likely still cached by our CDN and you'll have to wait a bit before you can play with the cycles) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vancanneyt Sander Posted July 4, 2021 Author Share Posted July 4, 2021 It's now possible to add the SpaceWeatherLive community forum on your iOS or Android device as a web application. On iOS Tap the share button Tap "Add to homescreen" On Android A small prompt will be shown with the question to install "SpaceWeatherLive Community" If accepted, it will be added to your apps This will make it easier to go to the Space Weather community forum from your tablets or phones 🙂 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vancanneyt Sander Posted September 18, 2021 Author Share Posted September 18, 2021 iOS and Android version 1.4.1 has been submitted and will be available in the app stores soon. Not much new, just some updates to internal components to make sure everything will function smoothly. X-ray values that are displayed on the site/app will now be a combination of the primary and secondary satellite data for the max and latest value. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vancanneyt Sander Posted October 24, 2021 Author Share Posted October 24, 2021 We're excited to introduce new features and updates! ❤️ Thanks to all the great support we've invested in a new service and in our app. So here's what's new and updated: iOS app version 1.5 - Fixes for missing notification image Android app version 1.5 - Native dark mode support! Devices that run Android 10 or higher can now enjoy native dark mode experience on the app, just by enabling the system setting for dark theme the app will show the dark mode natively. Older devices (older than Android 10) will still be able to use the old method. ap-index Besides the Kp index, we also often use the Ap index to have an idea of the average level for geomagnetic activity on a particular day. The Ap index is available in our archive as a daily value but our new feature is the ap-index, notice the change in capital letter 😉. The full description and the new graph can be found on the Kp-index page as it's directly related to the Kp-index. Auroral Oval map The biggest feature we roll out is our new revamped interactive auroral oval map! Up until today it was only possible to view the auroral oval with a base map with a diverse set of cities showing the odds for overhead aurorae. But now we extended it with a lot of new features: Ability to search locations, when searching it will zoom to the searched location Ability to control the map view: Disable/Enable the different layers Change the opacity of layers Global cloud map: see where the clouds are and where to drive for a clear sky for a great aurora hunting night Current weather information: For a range of cities near the auroral oval we'll display basic weather information so you'll know what weather to expect when hunting out for aurora. Just tap on the city name/weather icon and you'll get the info. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vancanneyt Sander Posted November 29, 2021 Author Share Posted November 29, 2021 SpaceWeatherLive is now available in Portuguese! It’s our 15th language and all credits go to Marlon Adam for her amazing work! 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vancanneyt Sander Posted December 4, 2021 Author Share Posted December 4, 2021 The community forum has been moved to its own url community.SpaceWeatherLive.com which solves a few issues and because it also makes more sense to place it in a subdomain. Users who installed the community forum as a web application on iOS and Android are required to remove the old one and add it again. nog anyone experiencing issues, let us know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vancanneyt Sander Posted December 30, 2021 Author Share Posted December 30, 2021 We have a new page on SWL! We've added the most recent CME detections by the Cactus software of the SIDC as a new page on SWL. Cactus analyses the LASCO footage and automatically detects CMEs with a few of their characteristics. It can be used as a guide to look for possible partial/full halo CMEs that could be Earth directed and see how fast the CME is traveling to get an idea of a possible arrival time. Aside the data, there is a graph with speed variation, an image and movie of the detected CME. Data credits to the SIDC. It will also soon be available in the app as well. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam Warfel Posted December 31, 2021 Share Posted December 31, 2021 15 hours ago, Vancanneyt Sander said: We have a new page on SWL! We've added the most recent CME detections by the Cactus software of the SIDC as a new page on SWL. Cactus analyses the LASCO footage and automatically detects CMEs with a few of their characteristics. It can be used as a guide to look for possible partial/full halo CMEs that could be Earth directed and see how fast the CME is traveling to get an idea of a possible arrival time. Aside the data, there is a graph with speed variation, an image and movie of the detected CME. Data credits to the SIDC. It will also soon be available in the app as well. Very cool! Would it be possible to add notifications for major CME ejections, or is that not a good use of alerts? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vancanneyt Sander Posted December 31, 2021 Author Share Posted December 31, 2021 5 uren geleden, Orneno zei: Very cool! Would it be possible to add notifications for major CME ejections, or is that not a good use of alerts? We won’t do that because of possible false positives and possible backside halo events. When significant activity happens, we’ll make a news item with the footage and analysis. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vancanneyt Sander Posted January 29, 2022 Author Share Posted January 29, 2022 New: Top space radiation storms! A new top list has arrived with the strongest space radiation storms since 1978 (yes since that long!). As with our other top list you can see a top list per SC (23->25). Links to the archive plots are available so you can see how the space radiation storm evolved in time. Also, a link to our help article is there to help you learn about these space radiation storms. go over to SWL, tap “archive” in the menu and tap “top space radiation storms”. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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