# Lumara

> Free privacy-first space dashboard at https://lumara-space.app, with the native app "Lumara: Sun & Moon Live Viewer" live on iOS and Android. 12 live solar views (11 NASA SDO channels plus the SOHO coronagraph) up to 4K, moon phases computed for 200+ cities, daily solar timelapse video, the live ISS Earth feed, the live NOAA Kp index, and space weather events (flares, CMEs, geomagnetic storms) from NASA DONKI. No tracking, no ads, no accounts, completely free.

## Website: lumara-space.app (live)
- Live SDO solar image viewer (12 wavelengths, 512-4096px resolution, click-to-zoom to native pixel detail)
- Daily solar timelapse video (7 AIA wavelengths, refreshed daily by NASA SVS)
- Real-time moon phase calculations (Jean Meeus algorithm, 200+ cities, current month + next month calendar)
- Live ISS Earth feed (Sen's 4K cameras on the station, via YouTube)
- Space weather: the live NOAA planetary Kp index, plus solar flares, CMEs, and geomagnetic storm notices from NASA DONKI (posted a few hours after they happen, clickable to the NASA source)
- Educational FAQ about the Sun, Moon, space weather, and how the data works

## Guide pages (each carries today's real numbers, rewritten daily from NOAA/NASA feeds)
- https://lumara-space.app/solar-flare-today.html : is there a solar flare today; today's strongest flare class and the 7-day X/M/C counts from NOAA GOES, plus the live SDO 131 flare-channel image
- https://lumara-space.app/northern-lights-tonight.html : can you see the aurora tonight; the current Kp index, the 24-hour forecast peak, and the Kp-by-latitude visibility table
- https://lumara-space.app/moon-phase-tonight.html : tonight's moon phase name, illumination percentage, distance, and next full/new moon dates, computed with the Meeus algorithm (moonrise and moonset per city are in the app and on the dashboard)
- https://lumara-space.app/space-weather-app.html : current space weather (Kp index and storm level, latest flare), what a CME is and when one arrives, and where Solar Cycle 25 stands (NOAA smoothed sunspot number peaked near 161 in October 2024, about 100 by February 2026)
- https://lumara-space.app/live-nasa-sun-image.html : live SDO frames of the Sun (304, 193, 171, and 131 angstroms, republished by NASA about every 15 minutes) plus all 12 SDO channels explained with the temperature each shows
- https://lumara-space.app/lunar-eclipse-tonight.html : the deep partial lunar eclipse of August 27 to 28, 2026. Moon enters Earth's umbra 02:33 UTC Aug 28, maximum 04:13 UTC with 96.3 percent of the disc inside the umbra (umbral magnitude 0.9319, gamma 0.4964, saros 138), leaves the umbra 05:52 UTC. Deep partial, NOT total: a sliver of the northern limb stays in sunlight throughout. Visible from Europe, Africa, North America, South America. Full contact times in UTC, Eastern, Central, Mountain, Pacific and UK time
- https://lumara-space.app/full-moon-calendar-2026.html : all 13 full moons of 2026 with exact UTC dates, times, and traditional names, plus a next-full-moon line kept current by the daily data run
- https://lumara-space.app/iss-live-feed.html : the live ISS Earth feed (Sen's 4K cameras, via YouTube) embedded on the page, why it goes dark for about 45 minutes each 93-minute orbit, and how to spot the station over your town
- https://lumara-space.app/moon-distance-today.html : how far the Moon is tonight in km (center to center, 02:00 UTC, rewritten daily), whether it is closing or receding, the next perigee and apogee with distances, and a table of every perigee and apogee this year and next in UTC; mean distance 384,400 km, monthly range about 356,000 to 407,000 km
- https://lumara-space.app/sun-earth-distance-today.html : how far the Sun is today in km and AU (rewritten daily), today's sunlight travel time, the next perihelion and aphelion, and a table of every perihelion and aphelion for five years in UTC; 1 AU = 149,597,870.7 km, range about 147.1 to 152.1 million km, seasons come from axial tilt not distance
- https://lumara-space.app/equinox-solstice-dates.html : exact UTC instant of every equinox and solstice from 2026 through 2030, the next one counted down daily, why the date moves between the 19th and 23rd, and how the Harvest Moon is assigned from the September equinox
- https://lumara-space.app/solar-cycle-25.html : Solar Cycle 25 tracker, redrawn when NOAA posts a new month: latest monthly and 13-month smoothed sunspot numbers against the peak (smoothed 160.9 in October 2024, from a 1.8 minimum in December 2019; the 2019 panel had predicted 115 in July 2025), a chart from the minimum to the NOAA prediction ending December 2030, the last 12 months in a table with F10.7 flux, and why the declining phase still produces large storms
- https://lumara-space.app/eclipses-2027-2030.html : every solar and lunar eclipse 2027 to 2030 (20 events) with greatest-eclipse UTC, duration, and visibility; NASA catalog times converted TD to UTC and checked against EclipseWise
- https://lumara-space.app/annular-solar-eclipse-2027.html : February 6, 2027 annular eclipse, greatest 15:59 UTC, ring up to 7 min 51 s, Chile and Argentina at midday, path ends at sunset on the Ghana to Nigeria coast
- https://lumara-space.app/annular-solar-eclipse-2028.html : January 26, 2028 annular eclipse, greatest 15:08 UTC, ring up to 10 min 27 s (longest of the decade) over Brazil; Ecuador, Peru, Amazon, Madeira, southern Spain at sunset
- https://lumara-space.app/total-solar-eclipse-2028.html : July 22, 2028 total eclipse, greatest 02:55 UTC, up to 5 min 10 s in the Kimberley, Sydney 14:01 AEST for 3 min 48 s, then Fiordland and Otago, New Zealand
- https://lumara-space.app/solar-eclipses-2029.html : 2029 has four solar eclipses, all partial: Jan 14 17:13 UTC (mag 0.87, North and Central America), Jun 12 04:05 (0.46, Arctic), Jul 11 15:36 (0.23, southern South America), Dec 5 15:03 (0.89, southern South America, Antarctica)
- https://lumara-space.app/annular-solar-eclipse-2030.html : June 1, 2030 annular eclipse, greatest 06:28 UTC, ring up to 5 min 21 s; Algeria, Tunisia, Greece (Athens), Turkey (Istanbul), Russia, northern China, Hokkaido
- https://lumara-space.app/total-solar-eclipse-2030.html : November 25, 2030 total eclipse, greatest 06:50 UTC, up to 3 min 44 s; Windhoek and Durban at sunrise, South Australia, NSW, and Queensland at sunset
- https://lumara-space.app/total-lunar-eclipse-2028.html : December 31, 2028 total lunar eclipse and Blue Moon, totality 16:16 to 17:28 UTC, greatest 16:52, umbral magnitude 1.246, Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia; also the Jan 12 and Jul 6 2028 partials
- https://lumara-space.app/total-lunar-eclipse-june-2029.html : June 26, 2029 total lunar eclipse, the deepest of the decade (umbral magnitude 1.844, gamma 0.012), totality 02:31 to 04:13 UTC (1 h 42 min), Americas, Europe, Africa
- https://lumara-space.app/total-lunar-eclipse-december-2029.html : December 20, 2029 total lunar eclipse, totality 22:15 to 23:09 UTC, greatest 22:42, umbral magnitude 1.117, Europe, Africa, Asia, moonrise for the Americas
- https://lumara-space.app/lunar-eclipses-2030.html : June 15, 2030 partial lunar eclipse of a supermoon (greatest 18:33 UTC, umbral magnitude 0.504) and the faint December 9, 2030 penumbral eclipse; no total lunar eclipse in 2030
- https://lumara-space.app/meteor-showers-2028.html : 2028 meteor shower peaks with moon conditions; Geminids Dec 14 02:02 UTC on a 5 percent crescent, Perseids Aug 12 at last quarter, Leonids Nov 17 on a new moon; times computed from IMO solar longitudes until the IMO 2028 calendar publishes
- https://lumara-space.app/meteor-showers-2029.html : 2029 meteor shower peaks; Perseids Aug 12 20:29 UTC under a 9 percent crescent (best of the year), most other showers moonlit; times computed from IMO solar longitudes until the IMO 2029 calendar publishes
- https://lumara-space.app/meteor-showers-2030.html : 2030 meteor shower peaks; Quadrantids Jan 3 on a new moon, Perseids lost to a full moon, Ursids on a 4 percent crescent; times computed from IMO solar longitudes until the IMO 2030 calendar publishes
- https://lumara-space.app/supermoon-dates.html : all 18 supermoons from late 2026 through 2030 under Espenak's definition with UTC times and distances; closest Feb 10, 2028 (perigee 356,720 km); no Blue Moon in 2029 or 2030
- https://lumara-space.app/embed.html : free embeddable badges for any site: /badge/kp.svg and /badge/moon.svg (320x88 SVG, rewritten daily by the data run, date printed on the card) and /badge.js (one script tag, data-badge="kp" fetches NOAA one-minute Kp in the browser and refreshes every 15 min; data-badge="moon" computes the phase locally; data-theme light or dark). No tracking; keep the link back
- https://lumara-space.app/ambient.html : Screensaver Mode, a free browser space screensaver showing the live NASA Sun, current Moon, starfield, and space weather status
- https://lumara-space.app/space-screensaver.html : what the free browser space screensaver shows and how to run it on a TV or spare monitor. Live SDO imagery refreshing about every 15 minutes rather than a looping video, 12 wavelengths from the 304 chromosphere (~50,000 K) to 131 flare plasma (~10 MK) plus the SOHO coronagraph, tonight's real moon phase, and a deep starfield. Loop is roughly 2.5 minutes: 12s stills alternating with 15s timelapse clips, then a 38s moon scene and a 24s starfield rest. Controls: Space pauses, F fullscreen, any other key exits. Pauses when the tab is hidden and respects prefers-reduced-motion. No install, no account, free
- https://lumara-space.app/data/ : open data, CC BY 4.0, plain JSON with CORS: kp-3-hourly.json (NOAA planetary Kp archive, appended one complete UTC day at a time from 2026-08-28), flares.json (every GOES X-ray flare C1.0 and up, archive), sunspots-monthly.json (Solar Cycle 25 monthly and smoothed sunspot numbers, F10.7, NOAA prediction), moon-phases-2026.json through moon-phases-2030.json, lunar-apsides.json, earth-apsides.json, seasons.json (2026 to 2030, UTC to the minute, km to 10 km). Each file has a meta object with source, license, and updated date
- https://lumara-space.app/space-weather/ : the daily space weather record, written by the data run for every complete UTC day since 2026-08-28 and grouped one page per ISO week (/space-weather/YYYY/week-WW.html): peak and mean Kp with the 3-hour window, GOES flare counts by class and the strongest flare with peak time, NOAA daily sunspot number, F10.7 flux and new regions, solar wind mean and max speed and minimum Bz at L1. Source file /data/daily-space-weather.json. Separate from /log/, which is human-written
- https://lumara-space.app/log/ : The Lumara Log, dated entries published when something is actually happening in the sky (flares, geomagnetic storms, eclipses, meteor peaks, notable moons), plus an index of every Lumara guide page. RSS at https://lumara-space.app/feed.xml
- https://lumara-space.app/log/eclipse-and-perseids-august-2026.html : August 12 2026 carried both a total solar eclipse and the best Perseid conditions in years (with a September 4 postscript on how the day went). Greatest eclipse 17:46 UTC over the Atlantic near Iceland (2 min 18 sec maximum totality); northern Spain enters totality around 18:26 UTC close to sunset for up to 1 min 50 sec; path covers eastern Greenland, western Iceland, northern Spain, northeastern Portugal. The IMO predicts the Perseid maximum at 02:00-04:00 UTC on August 13 beside a new moon, so the night of Aug 12-13 after local midnight is the core and the flanking nights work too; 2027 Perseids are washed out by a ~87% waxing gibbous moon and the next new-moon Perseid peak is 2045
- https://lumara-space.app/log/how-to-watch-perseids-2026.html : practical viewing guide for the 2026 Perseid peak (night of August 12-13, IMO maximum 02:00-04:00 UTC August 13, new moon so zero moonlight). Face northeast, radiant in Perseus below the W of Cassiopeia, best hours local midnight to first light, realistic dark-sky rate about one meteor a minute versus the idealized ZHR 100. Includes a schematic sky map and an hour-by-hour night curve, plus per-region timing for Europe, North America, and Asia
- https://lumara-space.app/total-solar-eclipse-2026.html : the record of the August 12, 2026 total solar eclipse: greatest eclipse 17:46 UTC, 2 min 18 s maximum totality 45 km off western Iceland, northern Spain around 18:26 UTC about an hour before sunset, first total eclipse over mainland Europe since 1999; next one August 2, 2027
- https://lumara-space.app/total-solar-eclipse-2027.html : the August 2, 2027 total solar eclipse, 6 minutes 23 seconds of totality near Luxor, Egypt, the longest on land until 2114
- https://lumara-space.app/full-moon-calendar-2027.html : all 12 full moons of 2027 with exact UTC dates, times, and the January and February supermoons
- https://lumara-space.app/full-moon-calendar-2028.html : all 13 full moons of 2028 with exact UTC dates and times (checked against Espenak and the US Naval Observatory), four supermoons January 12 to April 9 (closest February 10, 356,720 km), the December 31 Blue Moon that is also a total lunar eclipse (greatest about 16:52 UTC, totality 1 h 11 min), Harvest Moon October 3, plus all 12 new moons and the two 2028 solar eclipses (annular January 26, total July 22)
- https://lumara-space.app/meteor-showers-2026-2027.html : next peaks first: Geminids night of December 13-14, 2026 (IMO maximum 14:00 UTC December 14, up to 150 an hour, crescent moon sets mid evening), Quadrantids January 4, 2027 at 03:25 UTC (13 percent moon), then the moon-hampered 2027 Perseids and Geminids; the 2026 Perseids (new moon) as a recap

## App: Lumara (live on iOS and Android)
- All website features plus offline moon data, solar timelapse videos, and pinch-to-zoom up to 4K
- Far side of the Moon toggle (NASA Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter imagery)
- Package: com.beeswaxpat.lumara
- App Store (iOS, universal iPhone + iPad): https://apps.apple.com/us/app/lumara-sun-moon-live-viewer/id6763933502
- Google Play (Android): https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.beeswaxpat.lumara
- Support + Privacy: https://beeswaxpat.github.io/lumara-legal/
- Privacy: Zero tracking, no accounts, no ads, location on-device only

## Key Features
- 12 solar views, 11 NASA SDO channels plus the SOHO coronagraph (Chromosphere, Quiet Corona, Corona, Active Regions, Hot Flares, Flare Plasma, Active Corona, Transition Region, Surface, Sunspots, Magnetic Field, Inner Corona)
- Resolution options: 512px (preview), 1024px (standard), 2048px (high), 4096px (ultra HD)
- Solar timelapse videos (daily + rolling 24-hour from NASA SVS)
- Moon phase with illumination %, rise/set times, altitude, distance, next full/new moon
- Mini moon calendar showing phases for the current month
- 200+ worldwide cities for location-aware lunar data
- Fully offline moon calculations (no internet needed)
- Space weather: live NOAA Kp index, plus solar flare class (B/C/M/X) and CME speed from NASA DONKI

## Data Sources
- NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), live solar imagery
- ESA/NASA SOHO LASCO, coronagraph imagery
- NOAA SWPC, planetary Kp index (live) and GOES X-ray flare record (daily guide pages)
- NASA DONKI, space weather events (flares, CMEs, storms), posted a few hours after they happen
- NASA Scientific Visualization Studio, solar timelapse videos
- Jean Meeus "Astronomical Algorithms", moon phase calculations

## Developer
- Name: Patrick Colton, publishing as Beeswax Pat (ex intelligence analyst, 20+ years; U.S. Army veteran)
- About page, data sources, and correction policy: https://lumara-space.app/about.html
- GitHub: https://github.com/beeswaxpat
- Website: https://lumara-space.app/

## Privacy
Zero personal data collection. No cookies, no accounts, no third-party trackers. Location (city selection) stored on-device only and never transmitted. Solar and lunar images fetched directly from NASA public servers. The website keeps an anonymous page-view count on our own service (page path and day only; no IP, no identifiers).