Aurora Borealis in Ile-des-Soeurs
Canada · 45.46°, -73.55° · geomagnetic 54.8° · needs Kp 7
Tonight's aurora forecast for Ile-des-Soeurs
3%
Peak chance of a visible display tonight, from the same model the Revon app runs. Ile-des-Soeurs needs Kp 7 to see anything at all, and tonight the forecast peaks at Kp 5.0. Short of the threshold, which is what most nights look like here.
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Updated 2026-09-08 10:35 UTC
Local aurora guide for Ile-des-Soeurs
Ile-des-Soeurs generally needs planetary Kp 7 before the aurora borealis reaches the local sky. Historical Kp and darkness data produce about 3.2 viable nights a year across 10.0 years of records.
The strongest historical overlap of darkness and activity occurs in May, September and August.
The central sky is approximately Bortle 8. The supplied darker-sky reference is 70 km north-north-west at Bortle 5.
Aurorasaurus recorded 41 verified reports within 300 km of Ile-des-Soeurs between 2015-01-01 and 2016-12-31. These records describe past observations, not tonight's prediction.
Sources: Revon analysis of NOAA planetary Kp · Solar declination and hour-angle calculation · Falchi 2016 World Atlas of artificial night sky brightness · Aurorasaurus verified positive reports
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