Sky Tonight

Sky Tonight is a popular mobile stargazing app. It's simple and easy to use; just point your device at the sky to view the positions and detailed information of different planets, and easily capture beautiful scenery as your lock screen wallpaper. The app also includes a built-in image editor, allowing you to freely adjust the brightness and contrast of different photos, and hide constellation lines to create even more aesthetically pleasing images. Furthermore, the app features a time machine function to help users explore the past, comparing changes in the night sky between then and now, bringing even more fun. What are you waiting for? Start enjoying stargazing now!

Features of Sky Tonight:

Real-time Sky Positions: You can learn about the real position of each star and planet. From there, you can expand many new aspects to serve the stargazing later.

Augmented Reality Mode: Besides learning information, real observations are also interesting. The application allows you to see everything easily through the device screen.

Brightness Adjustments: If you observe these entities from the screen, you can adjust the brightness. The effect of this feature helps you to approach its beauty in different aspects.

Time Machine Feature: Observing the sky at different times often creates special feelings. At the same time, the time machine will take you to each time to learn each star’s previous position.

Tailored View & Reminders: Observing constellations often requires waiting for a suitable time and circumstances. Therefore, the application will create events based on your preferences to remind you of the time to watch the stars.

Filter By Magnitude: Before the above process takes place, you should look for entities that are easy to observe. The system will filter out the corresponding information based on the criteria of magnitude and distance.

Highlights of Sky Tonight:

Interactive trajectories relative to an observer: Instead of the classic trajectory that shows the object’s trajectory in the celestial sphere relative to the Earth’s center, the app presents the object’s trajectory in the sky relative to an observer. A long touch on the trajectories relative to the observer will move the sky object to the selected point. While holding the touch, move your finger along the trajectory to change the time.

Flexible search: Make use of the flexible search — quickly find space objects, easily navigate across different objects and events’ types. Look for "stars", "mars moons", "mars conjunctions", "solar eclipse", and the app will show you all related objects, events, and articles!There are also Trending and Recent categories in the search section. The first one presents the currently most popular objects, events, or news; the second category contains objects you recently selected.

Fully customizable event reminders: Set event reminders on any time and date not to miss a solar eclipse, a Full Moon, or a star-planet configuration you're interested in.

Astronomy calendar with a stargazing index and weather forecast: Check out the calendar of celestial events that includes lunar phases, meteor showers, eclipses, oppositions, conjunctions, and other exciting events. Learn what astronomy events will occur this month or see what happened in the sky a year ago!

User Reviews of Sky Tonight:

This app is amazing!!! I love it so much! It let's you see all the stars, planets, moons and constellations around you in real time and all the information about them! It doesn't need wifi and you can skip ads really quickly!! That, with the music and visual, makes it's a perfect app for winding down and relaxing!!! 

Best app in my earthly opinion i wouldn't have ever learned so much and see what amazing galaxies are on the other side of the planet. Zooming in on each planet is amazing. We've gotten far too used to looking at our phones, this app takes that and screams " LOOK UP!" Turns the phone into a useful tool.

As you move your phone around, it will display names of stars and constellations in real time. Even when you move your phone towards the earth, it will show you stars as if you were located on the other side of the planet looking up at the sky. You can even click on a star to learn some interesting information about it. Very educational. My interest in the universe has grown because of this app.

I love the app. I use it to find satellites and the iss. It has a option that allows you to set a notification of how long of time before it will start to come over the horizon, if its going to be bright and high enough for you to see with the naked eye. People say to many addss i dont get that, and someone said cant calibrate, very simple put in calibration mode and do figure 8 the way it says to.

FAQs of Sky Tonight:

Why should I get Sky Tonight if I already have Star Walk 2?

If you’re looking for a basic stargazing experience — identifying constellations, stars, and planets — Star Walk 2 delivers everything you need. But if you want to dive deeper into astronomy, Sky Tonight offers advanced tools for in-depth exploration of the sky. Besides, it’s free and gives you access to one of the largest databases of celestial objects available.

Why am I still being charged for my monthly Premium Access after purchasing the Lifetime Premium Access?

Purchasing Lifetime Premium Access doesn’t automatically cancel your active subscription — subscriptions and one-time purchases are handled separately by Apple and Google. To stop the monthly charge, please cancel the Premium Access subscription in your App Store or Google Play account settings.

How can I disable notifications?

To manage notifications from Sky Tonight, use your device’s system settings.

How can I change location?

Unfold the panel at the very bottom of the screen and tap the location. From there you can enable "Use device location" or manually pick a place by choosing "Search by name" or "Set coordinates".

How can I share an image of the sky from the app without any app interface visible?

Tap and hold the sky map until the loading circle completes and a snapshot appears at the bottom left. Tap it to open the Sky Image view, then tap the leftmost icon to share immediately or the middle icon to adjust brightness, hide labels, tweak constellation designs, and more before sending.

Final Verdict:

Elevate your sky observation experience with features crafted specifically to enhance engagement with the cosmos. Interactive trajectories offer a view of celestial paths from an observer's perspective, enabling the seamless movement of objects in the sky. A robust search functionality quickly locates stars, moon phases, eclipses, and more, providing trending topics and recent searches for convenience. Fully customizable event reminders ensure that significant astronomical events are never missed.