ForeSky - Star Gazing App

ForeSky - Star Gazing App is the ultimate astronomy companion for stargazers, astrophotographers, and telescope owners. Know exactly when to observe, what to look at, and how good the sky will be — all in one beautifully designed app. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌟 SMART ASTRONOMY FORECAST ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Get a 7-night astronomy AI forecast tailored specifically for observing — not just generic weather. ForeSky Astro combines seeing, transparency, cloud cover, humidity, and dew risk into a single clear quality rating: Bad → Poor → Fair → Good → Excellent. No more guessing whether tonight is worth setting up the scope. • Atmospheric seeing & transparency ratings • Cloud cover (total, low, mid, high layers) • Dew & frost risk alerts • Wind speed & humidity • Bortle light pollution class for your location (1–9 scale) • Hourly timeline with a visual scrollable strip • Night-by-night breakdown with composite scores ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔭 TONIGHT'S SKY — WHAT TO OBSERVE ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Never run out of targets. Browse deep sky objects from the Messier catalog, organised by difficulty — perfect for beginners and seasoned observers alike. • Galaxies, nebulae, star clusters & more • Altitude charts showing object visibility throughout the night • Best viewing window, peak altitude, and rise/set times • Thumbnail images and Wikipedia links for every object • Planet visibility with magnitude, altitude, and best times • ISS visible passes for the next 5 days ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌌 LIVE SKY MAP (AR MODE) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Point your phone at the sky and see what's up there. ForeSky Astro's built-in Sky Map uses your device sensors and live camera overlay to show stars, planets, and DSOs in real time. • Augmented reality camera overlay • Real-time orientation using device sensors • Tap objects to view details • Navigate directly from a DSO card to its sky position • Cardinal direction labels and altitude grid ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌠 ASTRONOMICAL EVENTS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Never miss a celestial event. The Events tab keeps you informed about everything happening in the sky. • Solar and lunar eclipses • Meteor showers • Planetary conjunctions and oppositions • Comet visibility windows • Asteroid close approaches (with hazard status, miss distance & velocity) • Aurora forecast with live Kp index, solar wind data, and NOAA imagery • NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔴 NIGHT VISION MODE ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Protect your dark-adapted eyes. One tap switches the entire app to a red-only display, preserving your night vision while you observe. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📡 TELESCOPE MOUNT CONTROL ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Own a Sky-Watcher GoTo mount? Connect to your mount over Wi-Fi and send GoTo commands directly from a DSO card. Includes directional nudge controls with three speed modes, slew status, and safety alerts for targets below the horizon or near the zenith. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📍 FLEXIBLE LOCATION PICKER ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Use your GPS location, search for any city in the world, or drop a pin anywhere on an interactive OpenStreetMap. All forecasts and sky data update instantly. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔔 SMART ALERTS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • Aurora alerts at your chosen Kp threshold (G1–G4) • Tonight's observing conditions summary • Upcoming event reminders ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✅ FREE & AD-FREE ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ForeSky Astro is free to use with no ads. Optional tips help keep it that way and support future development. Clear skies! 🌙