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Night sky, planets, missions
Description
Moonrise shows what's in the sky tonight where you are, the planets and spacecraft across the solar system, and the missions launching now. Everything about the sky is worked out on your iPhone; live data such as launches, the Sun and the Deep Space Network comes from public sources.
SKY
- The sky for your location or a chosen city, with constellations, stars, planets and the Moon
- Hold the phone up and the chart follows where it points
- Scrub through the night, or pick any year from 3000 BCE to 3000 CE
- Tonight at a glance: the Moon's phase, which planets are up and when, sunrise and sunset, and passes of the ISS, Tiangong, Hubble and Starlink trains
- Constellations from other sky cultures as well as the IAU set
- A red night mode that keeps your eyes dark-adapted
SOLAR SYSTEM
- The planets and the five spacecraft leaving the solar system, from 1958 to 2050
- A 3D solar system with moons, dwarf planets and comets, compressed or at true scale
- Mission stories that move the spacecraft along their path, chapter by chapter
SUN AND SPACE WEATHER
- The Sun as NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory sees it now, in several wavelengths
- The aurora forecast, with an alert when it may be visible from your area
LAUNCHES AND NEWS
- Upcoming launches with countdowns
- Space news headlines
- Live coverage of crewed missions to the Moon, with a Live Activity
- The Deep Space Network's dishes and the spacecraft they're talking to
- Local time on Mars at each rover, and their latest raw images
LIBRARY
- 370 pages on planets, moons, stars, constellations, deep-sky objects, spacecraft and rockets
- Planets and moons as globes you can turn
- A timeline of exploration, the scale of the universe, and rockets drawn side by side to scale
AND MORE
- Eclipses, meteor showers, oppositions and moon phases for the year ahead, with eclipse path maps
- An observing log, saved as plain-text files you can read in the Files app
- An optional daily summary notification
- Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets for the Moon and the planets
- An Apple Watch app and complications
Keywords
astronomy,stars,planets,moon phase,constellations,star chart,stargazing,nasa,rocket launch,aurora
Copyright
2026 Christian Cleberg