Live data · Dublin, Ireland

Things that are happening right now

Rail · Solar · Research · Weather

A board of widgets I have built and collated. The rail map, the X-ray plot, the ephemeris and the paper feed are mine, pulling from public APIs through a Flask service I host; the weather and the Moon are lightly modified from free existing widgets. It grows as I add tools.

See the board Where the data comes from
— Peak flare, 3 days
— Trains running
— Daylight in Dublin
3 Papers in feed

GOES 0.1–0.8 nm · 3 days

01 / Transit

Every train on the island, once a minute.

Irish Rail Flask · Cloud Run 60s refresh

Live train positions

Services more than ten minutes from their scheduled departure are filtered out, so what is on the map has actually left. Click a train to draw its route and list its calling points below.

Irish Rail Selected route

Stops & times

Click a train on the map to see its stops.

02 / Solar

What the Sun has been doing.

NOAA SWPC GOES primary Near-realtime

Three days of X-ray flux

Two passbands on a log scale, labelled by flare class: each letter is a decade, from A at 10−8 W/m² to X at 10−4. Drag to zoom.

sunrise-sunset.org Visual Crossing

Dublin ephemeris

— · UTC

  • Sunrise —
  • Sunset —
  • Solar noon —
  • Day length —
  • Lunar phase —
NASA SDO AIA · HMI −15 min

The Sun now

The corona at 171 Å, where the million-degree loops are, beside the visible disc in white light — the same Sun, an atmosphere apart.

SDO AIA 171 image of the Sun SDO HMI continuum image of the Sun
AIA 171 Å · HMI continuum
icalendar37 Lunar phase

The Moon tonight

03 / Research

The three newest papers on flare stars.

Pulled each day from the arXiv astro-ph listings, through my own proxy — the field I did my PhD in, and the fastest way to see what landed overnight.

Paper metadata via the arXiv API (CC0). Thank you to arXiv for use of its open access interoperability.

04 / Environment

And what it is doing outside.

weatherwidget.io forecast7

Dublin weather

One of the two widgets here I did not build — a free embed, recoloured to the page.

DUBLIN WEATHER

05 / Colophon

Where all of this comes from.

Nothing on this page is scraped and nothing is stored. Each widget reads a public API on load; the two that browsers will not call directly go through a small Flask service of mine on Cloud Run.

  • Rail

    Positions and routes from Irish Rail's realtime API, proxied for CORS and polled once a minute. Basemap tiles from CARTO and Esri.

  • Solar

    X-ray flux from NOAA SWPC's GOES feed. Images from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, roughly fifteen minutes behind the Sun.

  • Ephemeris

    Sunrise, sunset and day length from sunrise-sunset.org and Visual Crossing; lunar phase from icalendar37.

  • Papers

    The newest flare-star preprints from the arXiv API, cached by the same Flask service.

06 / Contact

Questions about the data?

I welcome opportunities in data, research and public speaking. If something here is broken, or you want one of these pointed at your own feed, say so.