Planet's Position

Tim Gaddis

About this app

Planet's Position is a program to calculate the position of the planets in the night sky based on a given location on Earth.

Sky Position:
Individual planet's positions can be calculated for any time between the years 1900 to 2100.

Rise/Set:
Calculates which planets are rising or setting.

Lunar Eclipses:
Calculates the lunar eclipses partially or fully visible.
Lists the time of events of the eclipse (Penumbral Start & End, Totality Start & End, etc).

Lunar Occultations:
Calculates the lunar occultations of the planets.
Lists the times of start and end and the position of the moon.

Solar Eclipses:
Calculates the Solar eclipses partially or fully visible.
Lists the time of events of the eclipse (Eclipse Start & End, Totality Start & End, etc).
Displays path of totality/greatest eclipse on Google Maps.

Update Location:
Update device location with GPS or manual entry.

Ratings and reviews

This is the app I was looking for quite some time. A perfect companion when not using a goto telescope and do no want to carry a laptop to run Stellarium. It is exactly as i wanted it,no AR graphics and animation and star art..just show me where a planet is at the moment so that I can point my telescope. Perfect! simple and to the point.

This app used to work and with only a small problem with defaulting to Arizona. Since the last update, however it can no longer install, I just get a-504 error message.

perfect rise and set info. thank you. an amateur astronomer

What's new

Updated timezone database.