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Aurora Scanner

Know when and where to look for the northern lights

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Aurora Scanner combines live space-weather data with hourly cloud cover and darkness for your destination, then tells you what helps or limits your chance tonight. NOAA OVATION oval, hourly map, trip planning.

PH · launched Nov 5, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 65%) · 0 views

Niche: stargazing and astronomy weather apps · 90 launches, 12 in the last 7 days ▼ -29% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags
  • Horizontal
  • B2C
  • Not AI
  • Commercial product
  • iOS
  • Weather
  • Travel

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Could you build this?

Yes It combines public NOAA space-weather feeds, hourly cloud-cover and darkness data from weather APIs, and sun/moon calculations into a simple scoring UI. All the inputs are freely available.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 207 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #105 of 208 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 285 days after the earliest competitor.

  • GoSeeAurora · ph · 2026-11-13 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.62
  • Is the Aurora Visible? · ph · 2026-10-24 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.57
  • Sky Calendar · ph · 2026-11-12 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.56
  • OrbitNight · ph · 2026-11-04 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.48
  • StarLeak · ph · 2026-10-06 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.47
  • Orbitrail · ph · 2026-10-06 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.47
  • Weather Alerts · ph · 2026-10-20 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.45
  • NightSkyCast · ph · 2026-10-30 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.45

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