Light Pollution Map allows you to easily locate dark sky locations where the sky will not be affected by light pollution, allowing the best observance, star gazing, and photography of the night sky! But it's not just a light pollution map. There's so much more, such as aurora borealis live viewing map, meteor shower alerts, super moon alerts, lunar eclipse alerts, moon phases and info, aurora and magnetic field information, international space station tracker, and a lot more! Light Pollution Map will help you master the night sky..
List of all features:
• Highly accurate, customizable and interactive light pollution map to find dark sky viewing locations near you.
• See live aurora borealis information such as KP value, magnetic field information, and more for the hardcore aurora chaser.
• Live aurora borealis visibility map for northern and southern hemisphere, with additional timelapse options.
• Aurora information widgets (today widget).
• ISS Tracker with live updates about the international space station including the location, visibility, velocity, altitude, and more.
• Night sky event calendar allows you to find dates for lunar eclipses, super moons, and meteor showers.
• Live images of the Sun via NASA's Solar and Heliospheric Observatory.
• Darkness countdown timer until the darkest period of night so you know when the night sky will be the darkest. Also let you know when it starts getting light outside.
• Astronomy photo of the day directly from NASA! A new one every day to look at!
• Local temperature indicator to know if you need to bring a sweater before you even step outside.
• Local cloud coverage indicator to know if you will be able to see anything before you step outside.
• Cloud cover overlay on the main map to find clear sky locations at night.
• Settings to customize the app.
• Moon information such as moon phase, moon rise, and moon set times, days of next full moon and new moon, etc.
• Moon direction tool which allows you to find where the moon will be, at any time, any date, for any location.
• Enable a horizon safe radius circle to avoid light pollution from nearby cities on the map.
• Local Aurora Borealis (Northern/Southern Lights) alerts and push notifications.
• Global Aurora Borealis Activity alerts and push notifications.
• Meteor shower alerts and push notifications.
• Super moon alerts and push notifications.
• Lunar eclipse alerts and push notifications.
• Save and load your favorite dark sky locations.
• Navigate to your saved locations using the Apple Maps app.
Some features above require an optional in-app purchase to upgrade to the pro version. Every purchase helps us to continue running and developing the app and is much appreciated.
Note: Light Pollution Map loads data online. Internet connection or wifi is required, and we are not responsible for any data usage chargers from your provider.
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Nice and responsive from a map perspective, but there’s no legend for the colors to link them even notionally to Bortle class. So, it works fine for seeing where you need to drive for dark skies (vs towns and cities) but gives no guidance for differentiating between two locations of similar darkness.
Warning, do not buy
sayjoannA
Well, I wish I could have gotten some support or a refund but for some reason this app is not eligible for a refund through Apple so you can’t even tell them what scammy or problematic stuff is happening. I paid $10 for Pro and nothing changed. I’m using an iPhone 16 pro. I tried going to the support website directly but it comes up with an invalid security certificate warning and says it’s insecure and may be compromised by people wanting to steal my passwords and info. Great. In the app when you tap the Support tab.. literally NOTHING happens. Also in the app when you tap FAQ/Help literally NOTHING happens. This actually happens with several of the other “options” as well. Unfortunately in the few minutes I tried using the app after paying for Pro.. nothing changed. I literally got nothing at all for paying for Pro. The only thing the app shows clearly is a map with differing light pollution.. but, shocker, the areas that have dark skies are not cities and the map doesn’t show info for those areas so you can’t even look them up elsewhere. I was totally locked into the city I am currently in. I could only get info about the city I am currently in. I could see no info for any other place on the map. You can drop a radius circle around anywhere you tap on the map but again.. no info on that place appears.. so what’s the point? If you use the search feature, the 1 time it didn’t just automatically close on me, it showed NO INFO about the city I was looking up. This is the most pointless app I’ve ever installed or I’m for the first time in 47 years learning I’m a complete idiot incapable of even tapping buttons correctly to reveal the info behind them. So annoying when you try to support a small app and get No Service, No Support, No Refund. Thanks for stealing my money!
Developer Response
Hi There,Sorry for the inconvenience. Lets try fixing this first and then work on what features are unlocked.Launch the app, top left there would be an icon with 3 horizontal lines, tap on that, a drawer kind of thing would slide, on top left you could see a orange box with a long text about the premium features, tap on this long text, that will show tue upgrade screen. On top right there is a restore text, tap on that. I think that should restore your purchase.If the orange box doesn’t contain the long text then the app is already in pro mode.
Really good!
MrMonstertruck
I feel like it could have more features but other wise it helps a lot for stargazing!
Light Pollution Display
ASelvey
Doesn’t display light pollution on map regardless of zoom level when using VPN. Once turned off the light pollution shows up. Just something to be aware of.
Fixed Astranauts info not showing up
Version 5.6.2
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Information
Seller
Dunbar Technology, LLC
Size
97.7 MB
Category
Weather
Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 17.0 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 14.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
