Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Light Pollution Map
Bortle scale & dark sky map
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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Real-time maps to find dark skies for stargazing
Aug 2026 · lightpollutionmap.io · its alternatives →
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Ouranos▲8Weather Forecast & Light Pollution Maps for Astronomers
2024 · ouranos-app.com · its alternatives →
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Get ready for the 2024 Total Solar Eclipse
2024 · theeclipse.company · its alternatives →
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For HTML Day 2025 [1], I made a web service that displays the current sky at your approximate location as a CSS gradient. Colours are simulated on-demand using atmospheric absorption and scattering coefficients. Updates every minute, without the use of client-side JavaScript. Source code and additional information is available on GitHub: https://github.com/dnlzro/horizon [1] https://html.energy/html-day/2025/index.html
2025 · sky.dlazaro.ca · its alternatives →
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Explore the 2024 Solar Eclipse path on a beautiful map
2023 · solareclipse.app · its alternatives →
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I've been working on this project for about 4 years. It began as terrain only because world wide elevation data was publicly available. I then added buildings from OpenStreetMap (crowd sourced) and more recently from Overture Maps data. Some computer vision/machine learning advancements [1] in the past few years have made it possible to estimate tree canopy heights using satellite imagery alone making it possible to finally add trees to the map. The data isn't perfect, but it's within +/- 3 meters of so. Good enough to give a general idea for any location on Earth. Happy to answer…
2024 · shademap.app · its alternatives →
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Real time lightning strikes across the globe
2014 · lightningmaps.org · its alternatives →
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2021 · weatherspark.com · its alternatives →
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GB Renewables Map an energy experiment created entirely in my free time (day job is visualisation at Octopus Energy). It's an interactive map showing live generation for major wind farms in Great Britain, showing what each wind farm is generating both now and in the past, and where that generation is physically located. Animated weather data is from WeatherLayers and shows current and historic wind conditions on the map, providing context to wind generation around the country. History mode allows you to go back in time and see wind generation and weather conditions for a particular date and…
2023 · renewables-map.robinhawkes.com · its alternatives →
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Electricity Map▲100Live CO2 emissions of electricity consumption
2017 · electricitymaps.com · its alternatives →
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Nikmati kemudahan deposit via QRIS, Dana, OVO, LinkAja, GoPay, dan bank BCA/Mandiri/BRI di Buaya138. Proses cepat tanpa potongan. Minimal deposit 10rb.
2019 · sunlight.live · its alternatives →
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Shadowmap▲292Interactive 3D maps app to visualize solar shadows worldwide
2021 · app.shadowmap.org · its alternatives →
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This is a service I've built to provide equirectangular cloud maps of the whole Earth, updated every 3 hours, for free. It's based on infrared and visible light data from EUMETSAT, processed to enhance the clouds and try to reduce the impact of surface temperatures on the final image. I built it because it's surprisingly hard to find these kinds of images in a format that's useful to developers and hobbyists. I was building a 3D ISS tracker and wanted to include live clouds but couldn't find anything good, so I got sidetracked, and here we are.
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Add data to your travel and real estate searches
2020 · its alternatives →
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AstroAlert▲113Know exactly when satellites pass above you.
Nov 2025 · astroalert.app · its alternatives →
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Visualizing the air quality on your street in real time
2017 · airview.blueair.com · its alternatives →
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Live streams of the total solar eclipse
2017 · exploratorium.edu · its alternatives →
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Tracking light pollution to find locations for stargazing
2018 · darksitefinder.com · its alternatives →
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This is an interactive map of US navigational aids and lighthouses, which indicates their location, color, characteristic and any remarks the Coast Guard has attached. I was sick at home with the flu this weekend, and went on a bit of a Wikipedia deep dive about active American lighthouses. Searching around a bit, it was very hard to find a single source or interactive map of active beacons, and a description of what the "characteristic" meant. The Coast Guard maintains a list of active lights though, that they publish annually…
Jan 2026 · lighthouses.app · its alternatives →
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Eclipse 2017▲110NASA's interactive eclipse path for your location
2017 · science.nasa.gov · its alternatives →
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Luminescence magnetic map with LED backlight
2021 · kickstarter.com · its alternatives →
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Weather Radar, Hyperlocal Forecasts, and Storm Alerts
2015 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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