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.
What makes Astrospheric the best Astronomy weather service in North America?
Astrospheric FAQs
Contact
Send a issue, comment, or idea
Help Content
Reading the forecast
Change the forecast location
Working with the Map
Sign in to Astrospheric
Use Favorites
Use Community Favorites
Smoke Forecast
Subspace
About
Create Group
Join a Group
Astrospheric for star parties and other large astronomy events
Astrophotography and APOM
Astrospheric Professional Edition
Learn how to get Astrospheric Professional
How to use Weather Alerts
Ensemble cloud forecast
Animated weather signatures
Astrospheric API
Learn how to use the API
Software Update History
Astrospheric Pro Price Change (April 2022)
MAJOR Ensemble Update (August 2021)
Ensemble Update (August 2020)
Subspace Update (February 2020)
Winter Update (December 2019)
Spring Update (March 2019)
Weather Alerts (December 2018)
ISS Flyover (Beta) (October 2018)
More frequent updates (September 2018)
Smoke + Transparency Update (August 2018)
Community Favorites (July 2018)
Embed Astrospheric (March 2018)
Enhanced Transparency (February 2018)
Redesigned Forecast (January 2018)
Map Update (November 2017)
Signatures (October 2017)
Extended cloud forecast (September 2017)
New map layers (August 2017)
Forecast data provided by the Canadian Meteorological Centre
Long range forecast data provided by NCEP GFS
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