Night Sky 4+
Stargazing Guide to the Sky
iCandi Apps Ltd.
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- Free
- Offers In-App Purchases
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Description
Multiple Webby & Lovie Award Winner!
NIGHT SKY
Designed for Apple Silicon
Night Sky is a powerful personal planetarium.
Quickly identify stars, planets, constellations and satellites in your own beautiful personal planetarium! This is all done magically. Whether you’re looking for a constellation or the International Space Station, research it with Night Sky from the comfort of your Mac!
Completely synced with Night Sky on your iOS/iPadOS device, the macOS version brings all your Sky Tours, Sky Notifications, Favorite Objects, and beautiful Moon Tours to the big screen of your Mac! Making it the perfect tool for research projects and browsing the sky in comfort.
FEATURE SET:
+ SKY TAGS - Make Night Sky yours, by adding personal Sky Tags to the map! Pin Sky Tags to objects in the sky to save for future reference, and share them via iMessage so others can find them! Sky Tags can be categorized, and are completely personal to you. Maybe you want to tag a star as a memorial to someone, or tag something you’d like to observe later that night. You can even add Astrophotography photos and observation notes to your Sky Tags!
+ CONNECTED STARGAZING (+ Feature) - Connected Stargazing is a revolutionary new feature that utilizes SharePlay in macOS 12.1 or above, allowing you to stargaze with others when you are apart! Start a FaceTime Audio call with those who you would like to stargaze with, then create a session by adding objects for everyone to find in the sky! Connected Stargazing on macOS is ideal for setting up and hosting sessions, or taking part in stargazing sessions if you're unable to observe from outside.
+ SKY TIMESTAMPS - Travel to anytime in the past or future using the Space Travel feature, then Sky Timestamp the time for quick recollection! Save the sky for the night you were born, or any other significant celestial event to revisit at the tap of your Sky Timestamp!
+ BILLIONS OF STARS! (+ Feature) - Space is vast, so Night Sky has been hyper charged in Night Sky 8 with over 1.7 BILLION STARS streamed from the cloud! With a new super deep zoom greater than 10X before, prepare to delve deeper into space than ever before!
+ NIGHT SKY WIDGET - Add the beautiful new Night Sky Widget. Available in multiple sizes get relevant data to your location on satellite flyovers, conditions, and your favorite objects!
+ MAPS UI - A brand new clean and familiar interface for Night Sky, with new Search features with Quick Find, intelligent Night Red Mode, Light Pollution indicator and beautiful feature tiles prepare to navigate Night Sky quicker than ever before!
+ AURORA MAPPING (+ Feature) - See where the Aurora is most visible with the nearest Aurora viewing locations to you highlighted. Complete with Aurora alerts!
+ PLANET INTERNAL STRUCTURES - With the tap of a button reveal the internal structures of the planets of the Solar System.
+ AR OBJECT EXPLORATION - Pull Planets, Stars and Constellations out of the sky and look at them in great detail and even share the object via iMessage!
+ NIGHT SKY TOURS (+ Feature): Get a live tour or create your own tours for any location and time in the world!
+ MY SKY NOTIFICATIONS - Completely customize your notifications in Night Sky. Favorite any object and be informed when that object is rising for your current location.
+ MANY MORE FEATURES
Optional Night Sky+ (previously named Night Sky Premium) is available for $5.99USD/month or $39.99USD/year (or equivalent currency, price by country can vary). You can subscribe and pay through your iTunes account. Your subscription will automatically renew unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage your subscriptions by entering the user settings in iTunes after the purchase. Auto-renew may also be turned off from here.
Privacy policy: http://www.icandiapps.com/icandiapps/privacy-policy/
Terms and conditions: http://www.icandiapps.com/icandiapps/terms-conditions/
What’s New
Version 12.0
Welcome to Night Sky 12!
Night Sky 12 is a huge update bringing some exciting new features and enhancements for macOS Sonoma:
+ LIVE SKY EVENTS - Never miss Live Sky Events again with Night Sky! A new indicator will appear in the bottom right of the Sky View whenever there is an interesting Live Sky Event such as a meteor shower or planetary conjunction for instance. The Live Event will also be highlighted in the Sky View and will only appear when the event is Live, so you'll immediately know the most exciting celestial wonders to view as soon as you launch Night Sky!
+ PRO GRIDS & LINES - We've added the equatorial line, the meridian line, equatorial grid and azimuthal grid to Night Sky. Turn these on or off directly from the Sky View.
+ INTERACTIVE WIDGET SUPPORT (macOS Sonoma required) - Night Sky now supports Interactive Widgets on macOS Sonoma! Favorite an object from the Interactive Widget to get notifications about it rising in the future.
+ HIGH RESOLUTION LIGHT SPECTRUMS - We've improved the resolution of all light spectrum arrays in Night Sky 12. See things you can't see with your eyes using the light spectrum filters available to change directly from the Sky View.
+ USER TOURS (Night Sky+ only) - Anyone can now make their own custom sky tour. Create a list of objects with your own images, and have Night Sky direct you to the objects in a sequenced tour. You can then share this tour with family and friends!
+ COMMON NAMES - Night Sky now recognises commonly used terms such as 'the big dipper' and 'the plough'. When a user searches for commonly used names, Night Sky will display the correct objects in the search results.
If you enjoy using Night Sky a great review on the App Store is always appreciated. If we can be of any assistance, please reach out to the team at Support@NightSky.com who will be happy to help!
Happy stargazing!
Ratings and Reviews
Editors’ Choice
This planetarium in your pocket makes it easy to discover the wonders of space wherever you go. Day or night, just aim your device skyward to see a live 3D map of the heavens, complete with beautifully illustrated constellations, stars, planets and satellites. A special night mode helps you read the map in the dark, while integrated weather reports show the best times for stargazing. You can even have notifications alert you to future astronomical events.
Recommended
I always recommend this app to people, I use it so often that friends and strangers react to it when they first see it and ask what it is. My favourite reaction was a 25 year old male friend of my other half exclaiming “look! she’s got the stars on her phone!” Even when I just discuss stars with people (simple stuff like have you heard there’s a comet?) I usually mention the app. My only struggle with it is that it doesn’t line up perfectly so it takes some time to work out where you should be looking using obvious constellations like the plough and Orion etc, but you can’t expect miracles from a free app, and being able to hold the phone slightly to the side of where you’re looking has its benefits for actually looking at things without killing your night vision.
I definitely recommend this app for anyone with a fledgling interest in the stars, I suggest learning some basic constellations to help you out. Talk to someone in person who can point out the plough, Orion’s Belt, maybe some zodiac signs, and then this app will do everything you could need it to.
Developer Response ,
Thank you for your review! Happy stargazing!
I love this app. It does have one or two flaws
It’s a great app. This isn’t to say it’s a negative review. One thing that annoyed me recently was the notification of a new comet in the sky. Taping the “i” for info doesn’t give much detail at all. That wasn’t what annoyed me. It stated if you wanted more info on THAT particular comet go to the wiki page (and there was a link) however the wiki page wasn’t about that comet at all it was simply a brief run down of what “a comet” was. I was hoping to discover info such as distance. Speed the comet is travelling etc. Apart from that though it’s a great app to use and also easy to navigate around with great animations. The comet thing above is annoying but it won’t stop me using the app and I’d still recommend this app to anyone looking for a handy and nicely made star gazing platform.
Developer Response ,
Thank you for your review! We'll take your feedback on board. Happy stargazing!
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App Privacy
The developer, iCandi Apps Ltd., indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Identifiers
- Usage Data
- Diagnostics
Privacy practices may vary based on, for example, the features you use or your age. Learn More
Information
- Provider
- iCandi Apps Ltd.
- Size
- 1.6 GB
- Category
- Reference
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 14.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 14.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 14.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 11.0 or later.
- Apple TV
- Requires tvOS 14.0 or later.
- Apple Watch
- Requires watchOS 7.0 or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English, Afrikaans, Albanian, Amharic, Arabic, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Belarusian, Bengali, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Burmese, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Filipino, Finnish, French, Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Gujarati, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kannada, Kazakh, Korean, Laotian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malay, Malayalam, Marathi, Nepali, Norwegian Bokmål, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Zulu
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © iCandi Apps Ltd.
- Price
- Free
- In-App Purchases
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- Night Sky+ Monthly £5.99
- Night Sky+ Annual £39.99
- Night Sky+ £5.99
- Night Sky+ £39.99
- Night Sky+ Unlimited £229.99
Supports
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Family Sharing
Some in‑app purchases, including subscriptions, may be shareable with your family group when Family Sharing is enabled.