Starlight® - Explore the Stars

ION6, LLC

Contains adsIn-app purchases

About this app

Point your phone or tablet like a magic lens into the night sky, and see in real time what stars and constellations hover above.

Starlight is a streamlined sky viewer that makes stargazing exciting and educational. See planets, stars, and constellations come to life against a vibrant backdrop of stars. This is your map to the cosmos! Amaze your friends and educate your kids with this useful app.

FEATURES:

• Beautiful hand-painted artwork.

• Lightning-fast navigation.

• Over 100,000 stars from the Hipparcos database, shown accurately according to their spectral type.

• All 88 western constellations.

• Planets of the solar system. (We threw in Pluto because we're sentimental.)

• Starlight is an ever-expanding tour of the Cosmos with new content planned regularly.

We want to hear from you! What would like to see in Starlight? Let us know by reviewing the app or visiting our website!

Ratings and reviews

100% best app for finding things in the sky (for me). Took a minute to figure out that the locations are off-centered just enough so that what I'm searching for is on the screen, while the actual object is just to the side of my screen in the sky... Allowing me to see both at the same time. Helps me figure out if I'm on-target without moving the screen away and back many times to verify. Pay for the app, it's worth it.

Saved my night!! I was so excited for the chance to see Pluto tonight, had all my equipment set up and ready to go, and at the very last minute I discovered that absolutely none of the star/planet mapping apps that I was using included Pluto... except this one!! I went through at least 6 sky map apps tonight alone, and Starlight is the only one I'll be keeping. Thank you so much for keeping little Pluto around, devs!!

There is NO search function, and even when I was looking in the right direction, it cannot find the Perseid meteor shower. Apparently this common celestial event is not in its database, makes you wonder what else is missing. But very pretty user interface and very intuitive to use, you move your phone around to find the name of whatever star you're looking at.

What’s new

✨ Improved device compatibility and enhanced stability when displaying star names. Your stargazing experience just got even smoother!