About Nightshift Stargazing
Nightshift helps you find perfect nights for stargazing, assists you in observing your favourite planets, meteor showers and deep-sky objects and keeps you up-to-date about the celestial events in tonight's sky....
Nightshift helps you find perfect nights for stargazing, assists you in observing your favourite planets, meteor showers and deep-sky objects and keeps you up-to-date about the celestial events in tonight's sky. Nightshift is the ideal free night sky app for the experienced amateur astronomer as well as the casual stargazer!
Features at a glance
☆ Worldwide stargazing conditions and forecast
☆ Sky view and star chart
☆ Celestial event calendar and astronomy highlights
☆ Over 15,000 deep-sky objects
☆ Advanced object visibility prediction for your telescopes
Clear skies and darkness: stargazing weather forecast
See darkness and cloud cover forecast for any location in the world and find tonight's best observing opportunities. A twilight diagram shows you darkness, weather and observing conditions for any night at a glance. Receive notifications when conditions are good for your favorite observing locations.
Sky view and star chart
Browse around the night sky using the new sky view feature and watch planets, deep-sky objects and celestial events right at the best time to observe them. Zoom in to discover faint objects and activate the telrad circles to create finder charts to quickly locate your favourite targets at the telescope.
Never miss out on the highlights of tonight's sky
Astronomy events, visible planets, active meteor showers, noctilucent clouds, moon phases, oppositions, elongations, lunar eclipses and rise and set times right from the app's dashboard.
Save your favourite stargazing locations
Build a database of your favourite observing locations to get location-specific advice about darkness, cloud cover and visibility of celestial objects.
Moon phases and lunar eclipses
Find out the current phase of the Moon and the exact time and date of the next full moon, new moon and first and last quarter. Nightshift helps you plan the best moments for lunar observation or prevent moonlight from disturbing your deep-sky observing session. Nightshift contains a calendar with all partial and total lunar eclipses from 1801 to 2200 and gives location specific advice on the visibility of a blood moon from your favourite stargazing spot.
Planets of the solar system
Nightshift shows all the visible planets for tonight and the constellations they are in to quickly locate them in the night sky. The event calendar tells you exactly when the next opposition of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune takes place so you can easily plan your planetary observing sessions. For Venus and Mercury, the app displays the moment of the greatest elongation to determine the best morning and evening visibility of the inner planets. Of course, a twilight diagram is available for all planets to find the best opportunities to observe them on any night and the telescopes needed for optimal observation.
Over 15,000 deep-sky objects
Nightshift comes packed with a large database of deep-sky objects, including the complete Messier, Caldwell, NGC and IC catalogues. A darkness and clear sky diagram indicates when the conditions are favourable to observe your favourite galaxies, globular clusters, nebulae and other wonders of the deep space.
Comprehensive info from renowned catalogues
In-depth information on all celestial objects, including classification, brightness, angular size, distance and cross references with other astronomy catalogues.
Visibility prediction for telecopes, binoculars and naked eye
State-of-the-art algorithms predict if celestial objects are within reach of your equipment. The visibility calculator shows you if your favourite planet, galaxy or other heavenly body is visible with your own telescopes or binoculars.
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Discover the world of astronomy
Start stargazing tonight with Nightshift and keep track of the fascinating events of the night sky!
Previous Versions
Here you can find the changelog of Nightshift Stargazing since it was posted on our website on 2019-07-10 17:57:17.
The latest version is 16.11 and it was updated on 2024-04-19 17:54:48. See below the changes in each version.
Nightshift Stargazing version 16.11
Updated At: 2024-03-23
Changes: Bug fixes
Nightshift Stargazing version 16.10
Updated At: 2024-01-14
Changes: Updates en fixes
Nightshift Stargazing version 16.9
Updated At: 2023-09-08
Changes: Added a few interesting articles about stargazing.
Nightshift Stargazing version 16.8
Updated At: 2023-08-24
Changes: Updates and bug fixes
Nightshift Stargazing version 16.7
Updated At: 2022-05-21
Changes: Improved in Nightshift 16.7:
✔ View each celestial object in the sky view directly from the object information screen
Nightshift Stargazing version 16.5
Updated At: 2022-04-11
Changes: Improved in Nightshift 16.5:
✔ Added over 195,000 stars up to magnitude 9.5 to the sky view for supporters (up to magnitude 7.5 for all other users)
✔ You can now tap objects in the sky view to select them, see more info on them and find similar and nearby objects
✔ Added Southern Secrets to the Observation Planner, a selection of famous targets that never rise high above the horizon from your location. A real challenge that requires good conditions!
✔ Many other improvements
Nightshift Stargazing version 16.4
Updated At: 2021-09-15
Changes: Improved in Nightshift 16.4:
✔ Now you can see if an event is invisible because of the weather or because the event isn't visible at all from your location.
✔ Improved notifications for events that cannot be observed directly, like new moon and the solstices
✔ Improved highlights card on summary tab
Fixes
✔ Fixed weird characters in Dutch meteor shower names
✔ Fixed occasional crash when editing telescopes
✔ Other fixes and stability improvements
Nightshift Stargazing version 16.3
Updated At: 2021-08-08
Changes: Improved in Nightshift 16.3 beta:
✔ The Observation Planner is here! Choose from a variety of pre-installed observing lists to make each night under the stars a great one. As a gift to the loyal supporters of Nightshift, the Observion Planner is ad-free for supporters.
Nightshift Stargazing version 16.2
Updated At: 2021-03-28
Changes: Improved in Nightshift 16.2:
✔ Revised code and database for Observing locations and Equipment sections
✔ Enhacements in sky view: improved label placement, deep-sky type disctinction, added Milky way center, added Flamsteed numbers and Bayer extension suffixes to star labels
Fixes:
✔ Fixed occasional wrong Moon and planet names
✔ Fixed back navigation from Deep-sky list
✔ Other fixes and stability improvements
Nightshift Stargazing version 16
Updated At: 2021-02-26
Changes: New in Nightshift 16
✔ Browse around the night sky using the new sky view feature and watch planets, deep-sky objects and celestial events right at the best time to observe them
Improvements
✔ Improved observing advice for conjunctions
✔ Added link to sky view for observable events
Fixes
✔ Fixed spinner not disappearing when navigating back to the Dashboard with the back key
Disclaimer
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