Stellarium - Star Map

Noctua Software

In-app purchases

About this app

Stellarium - 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 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 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 10 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 DR3 catalog of over 1.81 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: 3 million stars, 2.3 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 - 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 BLOWN away by the amount of objects are in the database, over 1.6 billion. I use this app to plan astrophotography for every night out and it works flawlessly, it's very accurate too, I really like the moon phases being in there too, it helps me plan out what nights I can shoot. it would be cool if they added it where you can take a panoramic of your yard and import it so then you can see if any objects in your yard will get in the way or not

IMO, Stellarium is the best Astronomy software there is. Real-time navigation just pointing up to the night sky, with an immense database of stars and objects. One thing I'd like to see implemented in this app is when selecting a multiple star, it would be great to have the separation in arc seconds displayed in the description - instead of having to go to Wikipedia.

Just randomly downloaded app just to see if something in the sky was a star or not. It wasn't, it was a planet. Started exploring more and discovered it's actually a pretty interesting tool for seeing stars, constellations, planets, as well as the names for all of them. Love the app and been telling almost everyone I see about it. Shout out to the creators. Not 5 star only bcuz made no purchases, still tons of stuff to see even if u don't.

What’s new

- Major catalogs update adding millions of new objects and fully complete catalogs including Gaia DR3 and many more
- Added all known closest stars, all major double stars and many pulsars, quasars and black holes
- Numerous fixes to star/DSO names, magnitudes and double-star handling
- More accurate star colors and additional physical properties (mass, radius etc..)
- Improve device tracking in sensor mode