Astroweather Panel

The Astroweather Panel provides atmospheric conditions for the next two days for the entire planet.

Ye Quanzhi

Some amateur astronomers can't live without their Clear Sky Chart, the handy graphic that forecasts such need-to-know atmospheric conditions like cloud cover, transparency, and humidity. The major problem with Attilla Danko's fabulous service is that it's only available for North America — most of it, anyway.

We received word this morning that now the rest of the world can benefit from a similar website built by Chinese programmer Ye Quanzhi. His Astroweather Panel covers everywhere Clear Sky Chart does not. Select a location by entering your geographic coordinates, or navigate through the place names, organized by country, already in the system.

Check it out and please post a comment below with your experiences.

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Mike

October 11, 2008 at 1:43 am

I live in Okinawa and have been wishing CSC would cover Japan one day - APanel beat them to it! The cloud cover predition for today looks pretty accurate; hopefully it will prove to be so on a regular basis.

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Anko

October 12, 2008 at 11:10 am

Well,
the Astroweather panel looks promising.
It contains a fast database of locations and the info presented is elaborate. And at least the "prediction" of today looks rather accurate, so that's a good first impression.

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Calum

October 14, 2008 at 4:11 am

I live in the UK and I found APanel about a month ago and think its great. I observe from different locations (including on holiday in Devon) and have found the range of locations provided by APanel helpful when planning to observe. The forecast has been good so far and I look forward to obseving when APanel says its clear.

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Ben Cable

January 11, 2009 at 4:12 pm

I have tried to navagate to this panel a number of times without luck (server error). Is it still available?

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Larry Lart

January 18, 2010 at 3:41 am

I wrote an application as well and one of the features is to try to cover both celarskyclock for North America and MeteoBlue service for Europe (and they are trying to cover other area in the world as well).

See here a preview: http://larryo.org/work/information/unimap/index.html#see

Larry

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