One free account covers everything here — aurora photo submissions and Observatory Pro. Pick a username and a password — that's the whole signup. Adding an email is optional, and lets you sign in with it.
New here? Create a free account
No password recovery yet — keep your password somewhere safe.
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No aurora photos yet — submit your first. Every photo helps validate the reconstructions.
Removing a photo takes it off the observatory immediately and permanently — the image file is deleted, no questions asked. Accepted photos may take a little while to disappear from cached map tiles.
Only used for account recovery or takedown confirmations — never shown publicly, never for marketing.
Link Google or Apple to sign in with one tap. Same account, same photos, same Pro.
Your username is your sign-in identity and photo credit, so it can't be changed. Need something else (full account deletion, a credit correction)? contact — every message reaches the maintainer.
Pro is active on this account. The 🏙 City skyline (3D) layer — buildings, streets, and water, anywhere on Earth — unlocks automatically, and recordings from the share dialog are clean and long (30 s MP4 / 8 s GIF, no watermark), and 🖼 4K poster export is yours — open the sky.
New Pro features land on this same account as they ship — nothing more to do.
Flat price, cancel anytime. Pro currently includes:
Payments are handled by Stripe. Model-generated content stays labeled model-generated — Pro changes what you can do, never what the physics says. terms
The observatory is free to use and free for classrooms, forever. Pro exists for the people who want the extra layers and want to keep the lights on. Licensing for museums, newsrooms, and APIs lives at pro.html.