Stargazing Map: Star Finder

🔭 Point your phone at the sky and it tells you what you are looking at

Hold your phone up. Stargazing Map draws the patch of sky your camera is facing

— the real stars, in their real positions, for exactly where you are standing

and exactly the time it is now. Move the phone and the sky moves with it.

⭐ WHAT IS UP THERE

• 8,922 stars — everything visible to the naked eye, down to magnitude 6.5

• All 88 constellations, with the joining lines that make the shapes readable

• 109 Messier objects — the Andromeda Galaxy, the Orion Nebula, the Pleiades

• The Sun, the Moon and all seven planets, computed live rather than looked up

• The Moon drawn at its true phase, with the lit side facing the real Sun

• Deep-sky objects drawn at their true size — Andromeda really is six full

moons wide, and the app shows it that way

👆 TAP ANYTHING TO IDENTIFY IT

Touch a star and it tells you what it is: name, constellation, spectral type,

how bright it is in plain words rather than a number, and when it rises, peaks

and sets tonight. Tap a planet and you get its distance in light-minutes and how

much of its disc is lit.

🔍 SEARCH, THEN BE POINTED AT IT

Look up Saturn, Vega, M31 or any of 440 named stars. The result tells you

straight away whether it is above the horizon and which way to face. Tap "Point

me at it" and an arrow leads you there, counting down the degrees as you turn.

🕐 TRAVEL IN TIME

Wind the clock forward and backward to see how the sky turns, or jump straight

to the end of astronomical twilight — the moment it gets properly dark tonight

at your location. Useful for working out whether a planet will clear the

rooftops before midnight.

🌙 RED NIGHT MODE

Your eyes take twenty minutes to adapt to darkness and one bright screen undoes

all of it. Night mode draws everything in dim red, which preserves that

adaptation the way an observatory torch does. Switch to the standard theme when

you are planning indoors.

📴 WORKS COMPLETELY OFFLINE

The entire star catalogue is built into the app. Nothing is downloaded, nothing

is fetched while you use it, and it works identically with the phone in

aeroplane mode. That matters, because the best places to stargaze are the places

with no signal.

🙅 NO ACCOUNT, NO SIGN-UP

Open it and look up. There is no login, no email, no profile, and nothing to

create.

📍 ABOUT LOCATION

The stars above Delhi are not the stars above London, so the app needs a rough

idea of where you are. It asks only for **approximate** location — never precise

— because moving a few kilometres changes the sky by less than the width of a

hair. Your position is used on your phone and never sent anywhere. If you would

rather not share it at all, pick a city from the list or type coordinates; the

app works exactly the same.

🧭 ABOUT THE COMPASS

Phone compasses drift, especially near metal, a car, or a laptop. If the sky

looks rotated, wave the phone in a figure of eight and it will re-calibrate.

The app watches the compass quality and tells you when this is needed rather

than letting you wonder why nothing lines up. Phones without a magnetometer can

drag to look around instead.

🧩 HONEST ABOUT ITS LIMITS

Uranus is at the edge of naked-eye visibility and Neptune beyond it — both are

drawn, but you will need binoculars. A live camera view behind the stars is

planned but not in this release.

🔒 PRIVACY

No account, no personal information. Your location never leaves your phone. The

app sends anonymous usage statistics and crash reports — the only thing that

leaves your device, and it contains no location and no object names.

📞 SUPPORT

Something looks wrong in the sky, or a feature you want:

[email protected]

Download Stargazing Map, step outside tonight, and find out what you have been looking at.