# Saylor Innovations Aurora Forecast for a Location

> Saylor Innovations Aurora Forecast for a Location is a paid API for AI agents from saylorinnovations.com, paid per call via x402, $0.001/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-01).

Returns aurora (northern/southern lights) visibility probability, current Kp index, 3-day Kp forecast, and geomagnetic storm expectation for any lat/lon coordinate, sourced from NOAA SWPC OVATION model.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://saylorinnovations.com/api/aurora/forecast?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.001/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-01
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/saylor-innovations-aurora-forecast-for-a-location-38ef6f57
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_0-rpUluSVhcdzAfeW29W3

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability saylor-innovations-aurora-forecast-for-a-location-38ef6f57
```

Example prompt: What are the chances of seeing the northern lights tonight at latitude 65.0, longitude -147.5 near Fairbanks, Alaska, and is a geomagnetic storm expected in the next 3 days?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need real-time, location-specific aurora visibility probability derived from the authoritative NOAA SWPC OVATION model. Ideal for any agent feature involving sky-watching, travel planning to high-latitude destinations, astrophotography scheduling, or space weather monitoring. Prefer this over generic weather APIs that lack aurora/geomagnetic storm data, and over raw NOAA APIs when you want a clean, pre-processed JSON response with probability percentage and visibility label.

## Known failure modes

- Missing or invalid lat/lon parameters may return an error or default response
- NOAA SWPC data outages may cause stale or null forecast values
- Extreme latitudes or polar regions may have unusual probability values
- kp_forecast_max_3day may be null if 3-day forecast data is temporarily unavailable
- Rate limiting or payment failure (x402) if USDC micropayment is not properly handled

## How this service works

Aurora Forecast for a Location (NOAA SWPC) — Science

## Output

Returns a JSON object containing: aurora_probability_pct (0-100 numeric chance of aurora visibility), visibility (human-readable string describing viewing conditions), kp_forecast_max_3day (maximum expected Kp index over the next 3 days, or null if unavailable), and implicitly the current Kp index and geomagnetic storm expectation derived from NOAA SWPC OVATION data.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET",
      "POST",
      "PUT",
      "PATCH",
      "DELETE",
      "HEAD"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "properties": {
      "lat": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "latitude (query)"
      },
      "lon": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "longitude (query)"
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "json"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object",
     "required": [
      "aurora_probability_pct"
     ],
     "properties": {
      "visibility": {
       "type": "string"
      },
      "kp_forecast_max_3day": {
       "type": [
        "number",
        "null"
       ]
      },
      "aurora_probability_pct": {
       "type": "number"
      }
     }
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/saylor-innovations-aurora-forecast-for-a-location-38ef6f57/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from saylorinnovations.com](https://www.zero.xyz/host/saylorinnovations.com/llms.txt)