Starlight
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Hold your phone up and Starlight names every star, planet and constellation in view. It works with no signal and no account.
Point your Android phone’s camera at the code to install.
Download Starlight 1.8 for Android
All 8,920 stars you can see without a telescope, the 88 constellations, the planets, the Moon and 26 clusters, nebulae and galaxies. Tap one for its name, its distance, and how old the light is that reaches you.
Tonight shows when the sky gets properly dark, what the Moon is doing, which planets are up, and a year of eclipses and meteor showers for where you live. Set a reminder and it tells you when to look.
Starlight works in a field with no signal. It knows your city, not your street: your position is rounded to about a kilometre. No account, no ads, no analytics. Satellite and aircraft tracking stay off until you turn them on.
The sky tonight, at about 9 pm.
Outbound is a small game in the Play tab. You steer the Lark, a gold glider, out of your own sky and collect real constellations star by star, in the order their lines join. The aliens are made up. The stars are not.
Starlight isn’t on the Play Store yet, so Android asks before installing it. That warning is normal for any app from outside the store.
Signed by Starlight. Certificate SHA-256: c304 2b69 dd73 6f4f ef6b 8fc7 6831 3359 b2bc def7 6fe0 b66d 952d 1bd1 6d32 ce81
Point your Android phone’s camera at the code to install.
Download Starlight 1.8 for Android