Stellarium Mobile - Star Map

Stellarium Labs

In-app purchases

About this app

Stellarium Mobile - Star Map is a planetarium app that shows exactly what you see when you look up at the stars.

Identify stars, constellations, planets, comets, satellites (such as the ISS), and other deep sky objects in real time in the sky above you in just a few seconds, just by pointing the phone at the sky!

This astronomy application has an easy to use and minimalist user interface, that makes it one of the best astronomical applications for adults and children who want to explore the night sky.

Stellarium Mobile features:

★ View an accurate night sky simulation of stars and planets for any date, time and location.

★ Dive in a collection of many stars, nebulas, galaxies, star clusters and other deep sky objects.

★ Zoom on realistic Milky Way and Deep Sky Objects images.

★ Discover how people living in other regions of the planet see the stars by selecting the shapes and illustrations of the constellations for many sky cultures.

★ Track artificial satellites, including the International Space Station.

★ Simulate landscape and atmosphere with realistic sunrise, sunset and atmosphere refraction.

★ Discover 3D rendering of the major solar system planets and their satellites.

★ Observe the sky in night mode (red) to preserve your eyes adaptation to darkness.

Stellarium Mobile contains in-app purchases allowing to upgrade to Stellarium Plus. With this upgrade, the app will display objects as faint as magnitude 22 (versus magnitude 8 in the base version) and enable advanced observing features.

Stellarium Plus features (unlocked with in-app purchase):

★ Reach the limit of knowledge by diving in a massive collection of stars, nebulas, galaxies, star clusters and other deep sky objects:
  • All known stars: Gaia DR2 catalog of over 1.69 billion stars
  • All known planets, natural satellites and comets, and many other minor solar system objects (10k asteroids)
  • Most known deep sky objects: a combined catalog of over 2 million nebulas and galaxies

★ Zoom almost without limits on high resolution images of deep sky objects or planetary surfaces.

★ Observe in the field, even without internet connection, with a "reduced" set of data: 2 million stars, 2 million Deep Sky Objects, 10k asteroids.

★ Control your telescope through Bluetooth or WIFI: drive any GOTO telescope compatible with NexStar, SynScan or LX200 protocols.

★ Prepare your observing sessions using the advanced observation tools, to predict a celestial object observability and transit times.

Stellarium Mobile - Star Map is made by the original creator of Stellarium, the well known open source planetarium and one of the best astronomy applications on Desktop PC.

Ratings and reviews

I'm absolutely giving 5 🌟 THIS App (I have the free version) is a great tool, Incredibly accurate and helpful. The more I watched the skies, the more I wanted to know. I can look up all sorts of things ahead of time, so i can lookout, and also pointing it at the sky as it happens (you can identify most things, from satellites to rocket bodies as they go by, point device and ID) comets planets and more!

Not impressed. I expected more from Stellarium. The app didn't follow my phone movements across the sky. I can't figure out any real- time sky setting. It feels very static. But maybe I just don't know how to navigate this app. (I don't have trouble with other apps.) Either way, the navigation should be clearer and simpler (meaning less clicks).

My only complaint is that sometimes controls are a little janky. When I'm trying to swipe up to switch to a diff app on my phone for ex, it will just scroll up on info sheet for whatever object I've selected; or sometimes it will randomly go into phone mobile sensor view, when I'm trying to scroll around in manual control view, & I don't know how to get it to switch back, other than to restart app. But these are minor annoyances, not enough to take off a star. I love it greatly otherwise. <3

What's new

This update brings the following improvements:

- add 3D models for some stars
- update asteroids database
- fixed search results when searching for coordinates
- fixed changing time by one year/month/day increment
- many other bug fixes and translations improvements

We are happy to hear from you and get your feedback!