About us
When to look up
Sky Time tells you which evenings, mornings and nights are worth stepping outside for, wherever you are, wherever you travel: a sunset likely to glow, a rocket launch you can see from home, an aurora night, the space station passing overhead.
Why Sky Time
Sky Time started with a simple problem. I wanted to know what I was missing: amazing sunsets, rocket launches, lantern festivals, meteor showers, solar eclipses and more.
I live in Florida, where the sky puts on a show more often than most people notice: a sunset that sets the whole sky on fire, a rocket climbing off the Space Coast, and once in a long while, the aurora reaching all the way down to us.
What I wanted it to do
- One clear answer first: is there anything interesting happening today?
- Every kind of sky event in one place: sunrises and sunsets, rocket launches and the space jellyfish, the aurora, meteor showers, eclipses, the space station, the Milky Way, full moons, even fireworks and drone shows.
- Never miss one: save the day, follow what you love, and get a reminder at the time you choose.
- Help you plan the shot: which way to look, the real land in 3D, and when the Moon will sit right on top of a mountain.
What we do
Every day, for every place people follow, Sky Time works out what is happening in the sky and how good it will look from there. Each event gets a score from Very Low to Excellent, built from the forecast and the geometry of the sky, not from guesswork. Save the days you care about to your calendar, follow the kinds of events you love, and get a reminder before the moment.
How the scores are made
- Sunrises and sunsets from the cloud at each height: high cloud catches the color, low cloud on the horizon blocks it, plus haze and humidity.
- Rocket launches from the rocket's climb, the light at launch time and the cloud along your line of sight toward it.
- The aurora from NOAA's geomagnetic forecasts and live aurora models, and the cloud above you.
- Satellites, meteor showers, eclipses and the Milky Way from orbital data and astronomy, with the moon and the clouds taken into account.
Where the data comes from
I pull from dozens of sources and put it together so you don't have to.
Who makes it
Sky Time is a product of Logical Rich Solutions, LLC, built in Florida, and tested by a group of volunteer testers on the web, Android and iPhone. Ads, when they appear, help pay for the servers that run the forecasts.
Get in touch
Questions, ideas or a sky we got wrong? Contact us. We read everything.