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Northern Lights in Marquette — Tonight
The tonight check for Marquette, United States: the live Kp, tonight's darkness window, and 6 public cameras within 50 km. Free, no signup.
Marquette's wall is the thinnest of the US set — six MDOT highway cameras within 50 km, the nearest 10 km out of town — and it is stated at that size. What it lacks in count it returns in darkness: this is the Upper Peninsula, where the road network runs through forest to a Great Lake shore.
Like Duluth, Marquette is a storm-night page. The cameras' ordinary subject is UP weather — lake-effect snow above all — and their aurora value arrives on the same G1+ nights, over the same dark northern water.
LIVE GEOMAGNETIC INDEX (NOAA SWPC)
Reading the live Kp index…
Late-October outlook: NOAA's outlooks for the final week of October 2026 have flagged possible G1 (minor) storm periods, including a window around October 31. Treat that as an outlook, never a promise — geomagnetic forecasts only firm up one to three days ahead, coronal holes and CMEs permitting, and the live Kp above is the verdict on any given night.
Tonight in Marquette: darkness and the Kp it needs
Marquette needs the same storm-level sky as Duluth — Kp 5–6 — but brings darker ground to the trade: the Upper Peninsula's sparse road network means very little light pollution between the cameras and the lake.
Sun times are computed for Marquette's coordinates (46.54, -87.40) in its local timezone — astronomy, not a forecast. The Kp panel above is the live NOAA reading; for tonight's verdict, read the two together and check the sky itself on the cameras.
Best time to watch in Marquette
On a forecast storm night, start here after Duluth: the UP's skies are darker and its horizon emptier. In winter, the same feeds double as the region's snow truth — lake effect can bury a camera's view in an hour, which is itself worth watching.
All 6 Marquette cameras, live
Every catalogue camera within 50 km of Marquette, nearest first — the wall this page's count comes from. Pick feeds facing dark landscapes, confirm the timestamp is current, and give the sky a minute.
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Every card is the camera's real live feed: snapshot cards refresh about every 15 seconds, stream cards play live in the grid (a few at a time, the same budget the map tiles use) and in full when you open a camera. Feeds are provided by their operators and public sources; a camera whose stream has gone off air shows as unavailable rather than playing a recording.
Featured cameras around Marquette
How to run the Marquette aurora check
- 1Read the live Kp at the top of this page first, and hold it against the band this place needs (above) — below it, even perfect cameras mostly show darkness.
- 2Check tonight's darkness window: the display needs real dark, and the window's edges are twilight, not watching time.
- 3Check the weather panel and the frames themselves for cloud — no Kp sees through overcast.
- 4Open the darkest-facing feeds, confirm the timestamp is current, and give the sky a minute; recheck in five.
- 5If Marquette is clouded out, switch walls — cloud is local, the oval is not. The nearest other places in this set are linked below.
Marquette northern lights — FAQ
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How many aurora cameras are there around Marquette, and how is the count worked out?+
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