Dark Sky Almanac
At a Glance
Nightly Forecast
Everything that decides a night, on one screen: sunset and sunrise, moonrise and moonset, tonight’s phase, the temperature an hour after sunset, and hour-by-hour cloud cover. Step through any date you like.
Tonight
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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 your saved location. Cloud-cover forecasts blend three global weather models (ECMWF, ICON and GFS) through the Open-Meteo service; moonrise, moonset and astronomical-twilight times are computed on your device.
Tonight
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Stars, Planets & More
Night Sky Objects
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. 36 constellations and 13 asterisms, the planets with live positions for tonight, and a deep-sky catalog spanning Messier, Caldwell, NGC, and IC objects, ranked by how high each climbs tonight.
Tonight's Moon
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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. 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
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Mark Your Calendar
Cosmic Events
The year's meteor showers and headline celestial events — oppositions, eclipses, conjunctions, solstices and equinoxes — each counted down to the night. Every date is computed and cross-checked against two independent ephemerides, with the Moon’s interference noted for each meteor shower.
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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