Bush Pilots Monumentin town · live · for 5:25 a.m.
No.
Town light rules it out here.
Issued 6 minutes ago, good for 1 hour 4 minutes more.
Next call for 5:55 a.m., posted by about 5:38 a.m.
Hour by hour
Outlook for 8:25 p.m.
- 8:25 p.m.: Worth going out
- 8:55 p.m.: Worth going out
- 9:25 p.m.: Worth going out
- 9:55 p.m.: Worth going out
- 10:25 p.m.: Go
- 10:55 p.m.: Worth going out
- 11:25 p.m.: If you're up anyway
- 11:55 p.m.: Worth going out
- 12:25 a.m.: Worth going out
- 12:55 a.m.: Worth going out
- 1:25 a.m.: Worth going out
- 1:55 a.m.: Worth going out
- 2:25 a.m.: If you're up anyway
- 2:55 a.m.: Worth going out
- 3:25 a.m.: Worth going out
- 3:55 a.m.: If you're up anyway
- 4:25 a.m.: If you're up anyway
- 4:55 a.m.: If you're up anyway
- 5:25 a.m.: No
Later calls appear as they are made.
Chance of seeing it
+23 pts without town light12%at 5:25 a.m.
Nowcast, from the live activity reading.
What decides it
Tonight, town light rules it out here, and there is cloud too.
Cloud
Against
About half the sky covered
64% cover at 5:25 a.m.
taller bar, more cloud · dashed line, overcast
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada
Thickening through the night.
Sky darkness
In the way
Hazy 2 of 5
town glow · deep dark
The main constellations, no Milky Way. A bright aurora will show.
Estimated
Moon
Helping
Down while it is dark
0% lit, waning.
- Dark
- Twilight
- Moon
Its light takes nothing from the sky tonight.
Darkness
Helping
Dark from 8:17 p.m. to 6:32 a.m.
Sunset 6:33 p.m. Sunrise 8:17 a.m.
- Dark
- Twilight
- Sun
- Dark enough
At 5:25 a.m. the sun is 19° down, well past the line where the sky is dark enough for aurora.
The record
What we called, and what happened
No nights yetSeason starts Oct. 15
Every night so farWhere the numbers come from
Bush Pilots Monument, in detail. Issued Saturday 5:05 a.m. Good until Saturday 6:15 a.m. Times are Mountain Daylight Time. Model lnt_score-sha256@16b902fb5962. Cloud: 64% cover, forecast by HRDPS, model run Saturday 12:00 a.m. 5 h 5 min old. Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada (licence). Aurora activity: K 1.0, measured, preliminary. From GFZ Potsdam Hp30 nowcast. 5 min old. CC BY 4.0, see credits. Sun and moon: Sun 19° below the horizon. Moon below the horizon. Sky darkness: Hazy, 2 of 5. Estimated from NASA Black Marble VNP46A4, 2025 data, uncalibrated. Horizon: Worked out from terrain alone. Buildings and trees are not included, so the real view is likely more blocked than this. Terrain from ArcticDEM and Canada's elevation data, see credits. Where: 62.4657, -114.3482. The forecast is for this spot, not the whole town. Magnetometer: Yellowknife (YKC), Natural Resources Canada. It shows activity that has already arrived, so it is a check for right now, not a forecast, and never part of a call.