Light pollution map

Deneb, Jurij Stare, s.p.

O aplikaciji

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)

Što je novo

- 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