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.

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• Reading the forecast
• Change your forecast location
• Map controls
• Sign in to Astrospheric
• Saving Favorites
• Share Community Favorites
• Smoke Forecast

• About
• Create a Group
• Join a Group
• Astrospheric for star parties and other large astronomy events
• Astrophotography and APOM

• How to get Astrospheric Professional
• Weather Alert setup
• Ensemble cloud forecast
• Animated weather signatures

• API documentation and examples

• 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
	Smoke forecast data provided by RAP model
	Cloud forecast data provided by NAM, RDPS, and GFS models
	We acknowledge the use of imagery provided by services from NASA's Global Imagery Browse Services (GIBS), part of NASA's Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS).

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