Chasing Pink
Aurora Forecast & Northern Lights Photography
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Aurora Forecast & Northern Lights Photography
6 followers
Most aurora apps give you a Kp number and a map. Chasing Pink is a photographer's 7-year northern-lights book turned living instrument. Every spot in the archive carries its own Kp threshold, so the live NOAA forecast gives a real go/no-go for that exact place. Forecast, auroral oval, 21-point Atlas, Night Planner, darkness & moon calendar, exposure tools, offline field mode — plus a kids' aurora game. Bilingual, free, no signup. Not an aurora app. An aurora companion.
Today I'm happy to announce my new website "Chasing Pink".
I visited the Arctic for 11 times since 2013 for the Northern Lights. I wrote a book in 2019, and as of today I converted my book into something more useful and accessible for anyone who has an interest in photography and Northern Lights.
Most "aurora" products are data utilities — a Kp number, a push alert, a map. Chasing Pink is the opposite: a photographer's 7-year northern-lights book that became a living instrument. It fuses real photographic work and editorial storytelling with a full stack of live, planning-grade tools — in one beautifully designed, bilingual (EN/TR), offline-ready experience. You don't check it; you plan a night with it. What makes it stand out
A book you can chase tonight. Every spot in the photographer's actual archive carries its own Kp threshold, so the live NOAA forecast gives a real go / no-go for that exact location — not a generic "Kp 5 somewhere up north."
The whole chase, in one place: live forecast + an OVATION-style auroral oval → a 21-point Atlas → a Night Planner (go/no-go + calendar export) → a darkness & moon calendar → an exposure calculator → Hunt Mode, a red-light field screen → an installable offline PWA. From "should I go?" to "what camera settings?" to standing in the snow.
It plays, it doesn't just inform: a draggable aurora simulator, printable camera cheat-sheet + chase checklist, an embeddable live Kp badge, a quiz — and a kids' aurora-painting game.
Free. No signup, no ads, no email wall. Bilingual and field-ready. It's the difference between an aurora app and an aurora companion — built by the photographer who chased it for a decade.
I sincerely hope you like my work and you feedback are more than welcome.
Here's everything inside 👇
🌌 TONIGHT'S SKY (live)
• Real-time aurora forecast — Kp index, the auroral oval & solar wind, wired to NOAA space-weather
• 27-day Kp outlook + a solar-cycle "you are here" marker
• "Tonight near me" — a geolocated go / no-go verdict
• A live aurora webcam board
• "On this night, years ago…" — my shots from the very same date
• An embeddable live Kp badge for your own site
🗺️ PLAN YOUR CHASE
• Interactive atlas with dark-sky (Bortle) overlays
• Night planner + one-tap "best night this week" calendar export (.ics)
• Seasonal darkness & moon calendar
• Aurora photo-settings calculator (shutter, ISO, aperture)
• A scenic "drive now" route map
📷 THE PHOTOGRAPHY
• 70+ photographs from a decade in the Arctic
• Every frame with its exact GPS, gear and camera settings
• A "settings decoded" panel on each photo
• Expedition logs, year by year (2013 → today)
🔬 LEARN & PLAY
• Animated science diagrams (the solar cycle, the auroral substorm, the night window…)
• A real-time aurora simulator
• An aurora quiz with a shareable score card
• Aurora Paintbox — a painting game for kids
• A glossary + a curated directory of the best aurora apps
📖 THE BOOK, REBORN
• The complete book — every chapter, as interactive reading spreads
• Fully bilingual: English & Turkish
• Downloadable, branded cheat-sheet + field checklist (PDF)
• Command-palette search (⌘K) across the whole site
• Offline field mode — install it and it works with no signal, under the sky
Free. No login. No email.
The book was a record of where I'd been.
The website is a tool to help you go.
🔗 chasing.pink
New updates (July 2026)
The Atlas goes worldwide
🗺️ All 90 spots on one map — your 21 book locations plus 70 live forecast watch-points, from the Arctic to Patagonia
🧭 North / South hemisphere switch — the glowing auroral oval over either pole, not just the north
🔭 A map for every location — each spot's page now shows exactly where it sits on the auroral oval (a real map, replacing the stand-in photo)
🎚️ Filter and compare — by hemisphere and region, with spots side by side to pick where to base a trip
📍 Jump to any spot — deep-link straight to a pin, and hop from a location page to its place on the atlas
🔦 The book stays the heart of it — your 21 visited spots keep their photos, success rates, and notes; the 70 forecast points ride alongside and link out to tonight's live odds
On the home page
✨ "90 aurora spots. One live sky." — a new live banner under the cover, with the current Kp read straight from NOAA
📱 Sharper on tablets and landscape screens — including Nest Hub and other short displays
New updates (July 2026)
Storm watch on the cover
⚡ A G-storm bulletin, once per storm — when NOAA's 48-hour forecast crosses into G-class, visitors get an "Extra Edition" bulletin over the cover; close it and it stays quiet for that storm, re-announcing only if the storm escalates
🧿 The Meridian Seal — a corner dial that stays on the cover for the whole storm window: G-class, peak Kp, and when it peaks
🛰️ Honest about "now" — if the storm is already underway, the copy says so: "NOAA measures Kp 7.3 right now," not a vague forecast
Live Sightings — proof the sky is on
📸 A community photo board — real aurora photographs from the last 24 hours, newest first, with time-ago and the place worked out from the caption
🧹 Aggressively filtered — model charts, forecast screenshots, AI art and "Aurora"-the-band all bounced; only authentic sky photographs make the board
⚡ Wired to the storm — the bulletin's "See it happening →" lands here, and a live chip shows the current G-class while a storm runs
The Atlas goes worldwide
🗺️ All 90 spots on one map — your 21 book locations plus 70 live forecast watch-points, from the Arctic to Patagonia
🧭 North / South hemisphere switch — the glowing auroral oval over either pole, not just the north
🔭 A map for every location — each spot's page now shows exactly where it sits on the auroral oval (a real map, replacing the stand-in photo)
🎚️ Filter and compare — by hemisphere and region, with spots side by side to pick where to base a trip
📍 Jump to any spot — deep-link straight to a pin, and hop from a location page to its place on the atlas
🗂️ Browsable at last — the selected-location card now folds away by default, with "see details" / "show on map" cues, so the 90-spot list stays scannable on any screen
🔦 The book stays the heart of it — your 21 visited spots keep their photos, success rates, and notes; the 70 forecast points ride alongside and link out to tonight's live odds
The Night Planner goes worldwide too
🌍 All 90 spots to plan from — the book's 21 up front, the rest of the world grouped by region, southern hemisphere included
🌗 Grounded in the night itself — dark-window and moon math per spot, honest off-season notices, and a link from every spot into its live forecast page
On the home page
✨ "90 aurora spots. One live sky." — a new live banner under the cover, with the current Kp read straight from NOAA
🎬 Hover scenes — on desktop, hovering a Live Edition card repaints the whole cover as a preview of that tool, drawn from tonight's real sky: the forecast scene shows live Kp, Bz and solar wind; the planner shows tonight's actual verdict; hunt mode glows its red field HUD; sightings pulls the live feed
📡 The Kp pill keeps up — the reading in the menu now refreshes every five minutes, and the moment you return to the tab
📱 Sharper on tablets and landscape screens — including Nest Hub and other short displays; hunt mode compacted for phones
⚙️ Faster underneath — one shared data poller feeds every live widget, and the sightings board no longer shifts as photos load
New updates (June 26, 2026):
Live aurora tools
🌌 Live forecast — Kp, solar wind, and a Bz "nowcast" (~30–60 min lead)
🧭 Aurora by location — 70 spots, both hemispheres, each with a go/no-go verdict from geomagnetic threshold + darkness + cloud + moon
🗺️ World map of all 70 spots, colored by tonight's odds — click any pin to jump to it
🔵 Live OVATION oval over both poles
📅 27-day Kp outlook + live aurora webcams
📍 "Tonight, where you are" — a geolocated verdict
🌙 Darkness & moon calendar, trip planner with .ics export
For photographers
📷 Exposure calculator (NPF + 500-rule, every camera body/lens)
🎞️ Aurora simulator, "settings decoded" on every gallery photo
🔴 Offline red-light field mode (PWA)