A FIELD GUIDE TO THE NIGHT
Find your sky. Pick a star. Follow a pattern.
Stars above you Star patterns
ABOVE THE HORIZON
✦ Start hereA bright star, worth a closer look → ◌ Explore the Milky Way ↗
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⌁ Patterns Aa Names ⊞ Grid ◐ Night ⚙ Tools
THE VIEW
Milky Way photograph
Reference landscape
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YOUR OBSERVATORY
⌖ Use current location
◌ Use phone compass
◉ Camera overlay
↺ Reset view
⛶ Fullscreen
Drag or hold arrow keys to look around. Scroll or pinch to zoom at your pointer; double-click to get closer. Press H for an unobstructed sky, or Space to stop moving.
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Catalog view: stars remain visible in daylight. J2000 coordinates; no planets, precession, proper motion, atmospheric extinction, or refraction model. Phone compass accuracy varies.
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LOOKING SOUTH
These are the unmodified source images used in this map. The Milky Way is wrapped onto celestial coordinates; the landscape is an optional reference scene, independent of your observing location.
01 / The Milky Way Axel Mellinger · via Stellarium Redistributed with credit under the permission recorded in Stellarium’s credits. Upstream image ↗ · Attribution & permission ↗
02 / An earthly horizon Guenther Wuchterl · Kuffner-Sternwarte.at Stellarium’s Grossmugl panorama, shown with darker exposure in the map. Distributed with Stellarium under GPL-2.0-or-later. Upstream landscape ↗ · License · Original configuration