What is Sky Time
What is in the sky around you, without looking it all up
Sky Time tells you what is happening in the sky wherever you are: tonight's sunset, the rocket you can see from your street, the space station passing over, the aurora, the fireworks down the road. You do not have to go looking for any of it, or plan ahead. At home, on vacation, visiting family or away for work, open it and it is there, and you can look ahead at everything that is coming.
- Wherever you are. Let your phone find you, or search any place in the world.
- Today. Every event you can see from there, each scored for how good it will look from your sky.
- What is coming. The nights, weeks and years ahead, and reminders for the things you love.
Open it, and it tells you
Wherever you are, let your phone find you or search for the place. Sky Time shows what you can see from there today, each event scored for how good it will look from your sky, with the time to be outside. Nothing to search for and nothing to work out.
Sunrise and sunset forecasts
How good tonight's sunset and tomorrow's sunrise will look - Very Low to Excellent - for any place on Earth, with the time it peaks and the high and low for the day.
Which way to look
Where the Sun sets and rises from your spot, and where the color will be - so you face the right way before it starts.
Stargazing tonight
How good tonight is for the stars wherever you are - darkness, cloud, the Moon and the haze in one score.
Sunrise fog and dew
Mornings when fog and dew are likely to catch the first light - a calm, clear night with the air near its dew point.
Look Ahead to tomorrow
Tomorrow's sky at a glance before today is over: what is coming, and when.
How the day turned out
Every past day keeps what we predicted, next to what the sky actually did.
Wherever you go, no planning ahead
On vacation, visiting family or away for work, you do not have to plan a thing. Open Sky Time wherever you are and it tells you what that sky has in store: the sunset over a coastline you have never seen, a launch you happen to be near, the fireworks at the park down the road, a dark sky away from the city lights at home.
Search anywhere
Wherever you are headed: any town, theme park, stadium or landmark - or a latitude and longitude.
Search every sky event on Earth (Pro)
Look up fireworks, lantern releases, launches and more anywhere in the world, not just near your places.
Choose how far you would go (Pro)
Your own distance for each kind of event: launches you would drive a thousand miles for, fireworks only around the corner.
Your places, offline (Pro)
Keep your places on your phone for dark-sky trips with no signal.
In the app
Share your sky
Share your photos with the sky drawn over them - what you caught, named.
In the app
Look at what is coming
Move forward through the days and the same card fills with what is ahead: full moons, meteor showers, eclipses and the turning of the seasons. Follow the things you love and they come to you.
Full moons and their names
Every full moon, when it rises and where - with the story behind its name.
New moons
The darkest nights of the month, for the stars and the Milky Way.
The Milky Way core
The nights the core of the Milky Way rises clear of the Moon and twilight, and when it is highest.
Equinoxes and solstices
The turning points of the year, to the minute.
Holidays in the sky
Halloween, Día de Muertos and more, with the sky that goes with them.
Eclipses on a map
Solar and lunar eclipses wherever you are, and every total solar eclipse 25 years ahead on a map.
Your sky, on your calendar (Pro)
Save any day at any place to My Calendar and see what is on it, minute by minute. Month, week, day and list views, with reminders by email or on your phone at the times you choose.
Follow what you love
Follow rocket launches, aurora nights, meteor showers, eclipses and more at your places. Every match goes on your calendar with a reminder, and a moved launch moves with it - even into Google, Apple or Outlook Calendar.
Rockets, satellites and the aurora
What people launch into the sky, and what the Sun sends back: when you can see it from where you are, and how high it will be.
Rocket launches - and the space jellyfish
Every launch you can see from where you are, how high it climbs into your sky, and when its twilight plume - the space jellyfish - may light up.
Launch details
The rocket, the mission, the landing, and the go or no-go for each launch.
Every launch, explained (Pro)
Launch details side-on: the climb, the coast and the booster's way home, each moment named - engine cut-off, boostback, entry burn, landing. Put the same labels on your own launch photos.
In the app
Satellites and the space station
When the space station, Tiangong and the brightest satellites pass over, and where to look.
Aurora nights and our own aurora map
The nights the aurora may reach you, how high it will be and what the clouds will do - with alerts and a live map.
Solar flares as they happen (Pro)
Every strong flare from the Sun - its class, when it peaked, the radio blackout it caused, and whether the aurora may follow.
Supernovae for your telescope (Pro)
Exploding stars a backyard telescope can catch, scored for your sky tonight, with where to point and how big a telescope you need.
Shows and sights near you
Not everything in the sky is far away. Fireworks, drone shows and airshows near wherever you are, volcanoes you can see from where you stand, and the great sky moments around the world, for when you are there.
Theme park fireworks
Tonight's fireworks at the theme parks near you, and whether you can see them from outside.
Drone shows, fireworks and airshows (Pro)
Light shows, fireworks, airshows and flyovers near you, at home or away, found in aviation notices - often before they are widely announced.
Volcanoes
See when natural wonders are right around you and you did not realize it. When a volcano is erupting within sight of where you are, Sky Time shows you where to look: its ash plume by day, or its lava glowing after dark.
World Events
The sky's great moments around the world - where to be, and when.
The weather that matters for the sky
Every score is made from the forecast for your spot, checked against what the weather satellites see right now.
Weather radar and satellite cloud
Live radar and what the weather satellites see right now, over your sky.
Hurricanes and tropical storms
Storms heading your way, and what they mean for your sky.
Dark sky map
How dark the sky is anywhere, to find somewhere the stars come out.
The sky itself
Look up from anywhere, at any moment: the stars, the planets and today's events in the sky over you, the real land under it, and the sky of any day in history.
The sky over any place, any time
The stars, planets and constellations over any place, at any moment, with today's events in the sky.
See the real land under the sky (Pro)
The Sky View in 3D puts the real mountains and valleys around you under the stars, lit as they will be at that moment - so you know whether the Moon clears the ridge before you set off.
Constellation artwork
The constellations drawn as the old star atlases drew them.
Deep zoom
Zoom past the stars into galaxies, clusters and nebulae.
In the app
Find any star
Look up any star by its name or catalogue number and go straight to it.
In the app
Astro mode and video
Night-sky camera modes for the stars, and video with the sky overlays.
In the app
The sky on any day in history
Any night of any year, as it was overhead.
In the app
Sky Time Travel
Step back to the sky of a famous moment - an eclipse, a launch, a comet - as it looked from where it happened, and every launch since 1957.
On the web and on your phone
Sky Time is the same on the website and in the app, with your places and reminders on both. Sign in once and they follow you, wherever you go.
Features marked come with Sky Time Pro, which also takes away the ads and helps keep Sky Time running. What Pro brings
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