Astrospheric

Daniel Fiordalis

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About this app

Astrospheric provides advanced weather tools for professional astronomers and astrophotographers in the Continental US and Canada, and supports hundreds of astronomical societies with tools that help members stay connected. Are you using what the pros use?

Features
• 84 hour, hour-by-hour forecast
• CMC astronomy data updated every 6 hours (no other service provides this data)
• Ensemble cloud forecast lets you quickly compare the major forecast models with hourly updates (Astrospheric Pro)
• Extended cloud forecast
• Kp index for Aurora viewing (and alerts with Pro)
• International Space Station (ISS) flyover paths and times
• Astrospheric is the only astronomy service that integrates the smoke forecast into the transparency report
• Sky data: cloud, sky transparency, seeing
• Ground data: wind, temperature, and humidity
• Precise rise and set times for both the sun and moon
• Get weather alerts when conditions meeting your requirements are met (Astrospheric Pro)
• Details Solar and Lunar eclipse data


Astronomical Societies

• Stay connected with chat, image sharing, and event planning with all of your members.
• Qualifying astronomical societies can get Pro features for all of their members


Site Mode
• Information necessary to quickly set up your GOTO tracking mount
• Available even if you don’t have a network connection


Astrospheric Professional is now available to enable Weather Alerts, Ensemble cloud forecast, and more!
• Astrospheric Professional is billed monthly or yearly and will auto-renew unless turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current subscription period. The renewal cost will be the same as the initial sign-up cost of the subscription. Any changes in cost will be communicated before renewal takes place.
• Payment will be charged to iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase
• Subscriptions may be managed by you and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the your Account Settings after purchase. A link to these settings is made available within Astrospheric "My Profile" for easy access.
• The terms of use and privacy policy may be found at https://www.astrospheric.com/privacypolicy.php, purchasing a subscription shows agreement to these terms.


PLEASE NOTE: Weather data is not available for Hawaii due to the domain area covered by the Canadian Meteorological Center. However, satellite and light pollution map layers, as well as other features will work in Hawaii.

Ratings and reviews

Have enjoyed the app and it's features for quite a long time now. I had replaced my old phone with a new Pixel 8 and experienced a fair bit of lag with the Astronomical Clock, even with a newer phone. EDIT: Just as the Dev response has hoped, the performance changes made a massive difference. It's now smooth as silk, and absolutely deserving of an updated rating. Fantastic work!

It's ok. My biggest complaint is it's accuracy concerning cloud cover. There have been many times that I didn't bother setting up because the app said we would have heavy cloud cover. Look outside...not a cloud in the sky. Or it will go the other way. Supposed to be clear and we have clouds. I know weather guessing is a tricky business, but better accuracy would be nice.

Astrospheric, by Daniel Fiordalis, provides accurate and all essential atmosphere data to began viewing the universe. The atmospheric conditions identified in this app are key to what stars, galaxies, planets, satellites, and other objects that can be observed. I wish that I could subscribe, but, the $29+ annual cost is too high for me. But, if I could return to using my Dobsonian telescope, I would not waste a moment to start the subscription. This app is well done!

What’s new

This update improves the ensemble cloud forecast with the ICON weather model.
Additional bug fixes and performance improvements.