Dark Sky Almanac
Tonight's Conditions
Stargazing Forecast
A calendar of moon phases, true-dark windows, weather, planet positions, and the night's best deep-sky targets — tuned to Zion's latitude. Updates each night with cloud cover, transparency, and seeing pulled from 7 km weather models, plus precise moonrise/set and astronomical-twilight windows.
Tonight
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Explore the Sky
Stars · Planets · Messier
The constellations, the planets, and the deep-sky wonders — a single hub for everything you can point a scope, binoculars, or your eye at tonight. All 88 official constellations, the 8 planets with live tonight-positions, and the complete Messier catalog of 110 deep-sky objects with rise/set times.
Inside
Constellations & Deep Space
Explore Sky Objects
Where to Go
Dark Sky Maps
Interactive maps of the darkest stargazing spots across Utah's Big 5 — Zion, Bryce, Capitol Reef, Canyonlands, Arches — plus Cedar Breaks and the St. George region. Bortle-rated overlooks, trailheads, and remote sites with GPS-aware "you are here" markers and detailed info for each location.
Stargazing Spots
Utah's Big 5 · Cedar Breaks · St. George
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Mark Your Calendar
Cosmic Events
The year's meteor showers and headline celestial events — oppositions, eclipses, conjunctions, and perihelion passages — each counted down to the night. Built on NASA/JPL ephemerides; tells you exact peak times and moon-interference at your latitude.
Next Up
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In the Field
Sky Finder
Aim your phone's camera at any peak or patch of sky and read the exact compass direction and altitude — for planning where the Milky Way or moon will rise. Live AR overlay aligned with the phone's magnetometer and accelerometer, calibrated for true (not magnetic) north.
Camera Compass
AR Camera & Compass
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The Moon
Moon
A labelled atlas of the seas, craters, and peaks of the moon, with the moving terminator showing where shadows fall sharpest tonight. Includes the libration model and the precise visible phase calculated from real-time Sun-Moon-Earth geometry — accurate to seconds of rotation.
Tonight's Moon
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