Light pollution map

Deneb, Jurij Stare, s.p.

About this app

Light pollution map helps you find the best places to enjoy the night sky.
Whether you are an amateur astronomer, astrophotographer, or just love stargazing, this app shows you where light pollution is lowest so you can experience the stars in all their beauty.

Features:
• Interactive map with global light pollution data
• Search for dark sky locations near you
• Plan trips for stargazing and astrophotography
• Learn about light pollution and its impact

If you want to try the app before you buy it, you can check out the www.lightpollutionmap.info website. The app is almost the same with some differences (no ads and different menus).

Please send comments and requests for new features via email (look below for developer contact).

Functionalities:
- VIIRS, Sky Brightness, Cloud coverage and Aurora forecast layers
- VIIRS trend layer where you can quicky see for example newly installed light sources
- VIIRS and Sky Brightness layers can be displayed also in color blind friendly colors
- Road & Satellite base maps
- Cloud animation for the last 12 hours
- Get detail radiance and SQM values from layers at a click. For World Atlas 2015, you also get Bortle class estimation based on zenith brightness
- SQM, SQM-L, SQC, SQM-LE, SQM readings submitted by users
- Submit your own SQM (L) readings
- Observatories layer
- Save your favorite locations
- Various tools for analyzing VIIRS data
- Offline mode (Sky brightness map and a base map are saved to your device, so it will be displayed when you are offline)

Permissions:
- Location (to show you your location)
- Network state (used whether to display online or offline maps)
- Read & write to external storage (used to save offline maps)

Ratings and reviews

Need to allow choosing SD card or other location for offline cache download. Also adding locations to favorites list ("My Locations") just doesn't work. Nothing happens when you try to type the name, or hit the pin button, or anything. Also can't even see the entire map legend, the legend image is too long to fit on the the screen and it's not possible to scroll down to see the rest of it.

Best app about light pollution. I have been using the web based version since 2017 and so far its the most accurate since I have been to various darksky sites after using it. Is it possible to extract data in csv format from it? Also I can't seem to click on Circle tool for drawing roi why?

Very accurate ! Find Darker Skies sooner with this App !!

What’s new

- Changes to the user interface
- Added 'Zenith brightness simulation' tool
- Added 'Find closest dark' site tool
- World Atlas 2015 overlay has some new additional display options
- Viewing SQM-LE charts received some performance upgrades