Useful resources

Our initial narrow-scope implementation will mash together location, predicted over-flights of the International Space station and weather information to give a view of upcoming over-flights and if the weather will let you see them.

We're using the following data sources/API for our prototype.

Unofficial Heavens Above API: http://uhaapi.com

Met Office Data Point: http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/public/ddc/datasets-documentation.html

Reverse geocoding, using Nominatim: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Nominatim

We're calculating local sunset time using a formula from wikipedia.

Other teams work and examples

SMS App: https://github.com/jonmarkgo/Predict-the-Sky

Useful resources that people have pointed us to

http://sourceforge.net/projects/iridiumflares/files/ - predicts Iridium flares

http://www.heliographer.org/ and http://www.spaceweather.com - for solar activity and aurora prediction

https://gist.github.com/767532 - sunrise/sunset calculator

http://cleardarksky.com/csk/ - Clear Sky chart for various sites in North America

http://www.seasky.org/astronomy/astronomy-calendar-2012.html - general astronomical events calendar

http://spaceweather.com/flybys/ - flybys