Will you see the aurora tonight? A live hourly score from NOAA activity, clouds, darkness and the moon.
Poker Flat Research Range, Alaska, USA · Seasonal
Colour all-sky camera about 35 km north-east of Fairbanks; no new frames in the bright summer nights. Credit: Spanswick & Donovan (2025), SMILE All Sky Imager Dataset, University of Calgary, doi:10.11575/QKVX-TH24.
Poker Flat Research Range, Chatanika, Alaska · Seasonal
Scientific all-sky camera at the rocket range; only meaningful after dark. The SMILE all-sky imager at the same site is shown on our pages.
Fairbanks area, Alaska, USA · Seasonal
A new live stream starts each night; the exact location is not published.
Fairbanks, Alaska, USA · Seasonal
Faces the northern sky; most active from autumn to early spring, after midnight.
North Pole, Alaska
Aurora camera at North Pole, just south-east of Fairbanks.
Talkeetna, Alaska
Lodge camera looking north towards Denali; in winter aurora shows above the range.
