Inspiration
Our teammates have previous experience with aurora hunting, but none have managed to successfully capture one, so we decided to build Auralis so no one will be suffering from this anymore!!!!!!
What it does
Auralis can be locally hosted; it extracts the data needed based on your location (latitude and longitude, and timestamp) to extract needed information on opensource database (NASA, NOAA)
How we built it
We extracted data from 2 main sources for June and July 2026 to train the model, and did some feature engineering. We chose XGBoost as the most efficient and accurate model to be the backbone of our project after some model testing (RF, DT). We also built a simple front end to showcase how the user interface would look like
Challenges we ran into
Since the data source comes from different databases and providers, the data preparation took up much more time than we initially planned.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
WE DID NOT GIVE UP, even after numerous challenges with the dataset
What we learned
More than enough
What's next for Auralis
The actual data scraping to get the data for the users
