OBSERVATORY PRO

🏛️ The observatory on your floor

A chrome-free, full-screen build of the live sky and the great storms — Carrington 1859 to the Gannon superstorm — plus Storm Lab, a hands-on build-your-own-storm interactive with an earned color-painting game your visitors will queue for. Curated storm playlists, your institution's branding, honest model-vs-measured labeling throughout. Attract-loop ready: the /embed/kiosk endpoint plays your curated storm playlist full-screen and self-advancing, with your institution’s label burned into the corner.

📺 The sky over your city, on your site

A licensed, ad-free live embed — "what the aurora looks like over [your city] right now" — ready before the next big storm hits your push alerts. Plus broadcast-ready rendered clips of the current storm or any historical replay, cut from the engine at 9:16 and 16:9. Every frame is computed by the physics engine from measured data — none of it generative AI — so a licensed clip files cleanly under your newsroom's AI-disclosure policy: label it what it is, a simulation. And when the story is “is it happening right now?” — GET /v1/nowcast answers from the measured solar wind at L1, arrival-time aware, honesty fields included.

This live demo is the real engine, licensed-display mode (ad-free, community photos off), standing in Tromsø during the May 2024 superstorm replay:

📦 Open the media & broadcast kit — sample clips and stills cut from the May 2024 superstorm, the rate card, and the one-page license.

🧭 "Will tonight be good here?" — answered honestly

A three-night aurora outlook for your lodge, tour route, or destination — computed from NOAA's WSA–Enlil forecast through the same storm relations this observatory runs, with the honesty your guests deserve: the forecast knows the wind, but the night swings on field direction nobody can measure until it arrives. Embeddable card or raw JSON.

One line on your site: <iframe src="https://swo-api.jacobsprankle.workers.dev/embed/outlook?lat=YOUR_LAT&lon=YOUR_LON&name=Your+Lodge&key=YOUR_KEY"> — or GET /v1/forecast?lat=&lon=&key= for JSON.

And the phone-call moment, automated: POST /v1/watch registers a webhook that fires when the sky over your coordinates crosses your threshold (fair · good · great) — swept every ~10 minutes, 90-minute cooldown, never fired on stale data. Ring the front desk, wake the guides.

⚙️ The deep-link surface, licensed

Everything on this site is addressable — storms, the Storm Lab bridge (?storm=lab&lab=v,n,bt,bz), ground views with facing (hrz=lat,lon,yaw), moments in time. Pro keys add the forecast API, licensed clean embeds, and rendered stills/clips on request.

Bring the oval to YOUR map: GET /v1/oval.geojson?when=now|night0..2&key= — the forecast auroral band and the visibility line as portable GeoJSON, drop-in for Leaflet, Mapbox, Google Maps, or ArcGIS. Five lines of code, both hemispheres, honesty and attribution carried in the properties.

That widget IS the product — GET /embed/map, one iframe, zero code: the live band and visibility line, a now-through-+2-nights switcher, your label burned in. Hero mode for lobby screens and press: &basemap=night&terminator=1 lays the band over NASA's Black Marble night-lights (public-domain imagery — kiosk-clean licensing) with the daylight side washed out, honest about where the sky is too bright to matter. &marker=lat,lon,Your Lodge pins your spot under the oval. Storm playback: &playback=night0 animates the whole forecast night — the band breathing hour by hour while the terminator rolls darkness across the world. Prefer your own map? The GeoJSON above drops into Leaflet, Mapbox, Google Maps, or ArcGIS unchanged.

The full surface:

Keys are provisioned per-partner during onboarding — there is no self-serve signup; the public demo key above shows the surface live. Demo keys: 3 renders/month at 960px, watermarked, no webhooks. Licensed keys: up to 1,000 renders/month, 1080p+ chrome-free frames, your brand overlay, webhooks, kiosk playlists. Every response carries attribution and honesty fields.