The sky tonight, the solar system, the Sun and launches, with a library of 370 pages, for iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch.
Moonrise draws the sky above you from real data: about 130,000 stars down to magnitude 9, all 88 constellations, the Milky Way, 900 galaxies, clusters and nebulae, bright comets, the planets and the Moon at its true phase, with sky cultures, guided tours, a horizon you can draw and a red night mode. Hold the phone up to see the sky over the camera.
The System tab shows the planets, comets and spacecraft from above or in 3D, between 1958 and 2050, including Juno, Europa Clipper, JUICE, Psyche, Lucy and Parker Solar Probe. The Sun tab shows NASA’s latest images with active regions labelled, the solar wind, the coronagraph, NOAA’s solar wind forecast, the solar cycle, the aurora forecast and today’s golden and blue hours.
Events lists the year’s eclipses, meteor showers and planets at their best. Eclipses come with local contact times, cloud history along the path, the nearest place to see totality, an exposure guide and taps on the wrist from Apple Watch. Launches have countdowns on the Lock Screen that update as the launch is held or scrubbed, and can start on their own for the rockets and providers you follow. Geomagnetic storms, meteor shower nights, satellite passes and eclipses can go on the Lock Screen too.
The observing log keeps plain-text files and tracks programs such as the Messier list. It exports variable star estimates for the AAVSO, comet observations for COBS and meteor counts for the IMO. The Library covers the solar system, stars, deep-sky objects, spacecraft and rockets. Widgets show the Moon, the planets, Kp, the next launch, Voyager 1 and the Sun; the Apple Watch app shows the Moon and the planets; Control Center controls open the Sky, Sun and Launches tabs.
No accounts, ads or tracking. Location stays on the device; anything that can be computed works offline.