Transit 1.5 is the biggest update yet: your desktop joins the menu bar, and the forecast learns to think in hours. DESKTOP WIDGETS • Next Up counts down to tonight's events right on your desktop: passes, transits, conjunctions, and satellite crossings of the Sun and Moon, including the drive-to crossings within your chosen radius. • Solar Activity shows today's Sun as photographed by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, with active regions, flare probability, and the aurora outlook on a space-black card that looks right on any wallpaper. TONIGHT, HOUR BY HOUR • A new forecast strip scores every hour of the coming night with the same conditions engine you already trust: green bars are hours worth planning around, and the best window of the night is bracketed and named. • The Tonight tile shows the night's peak beside the current score, becomes Later once the night is under way, and rolls to the coming night at sunrise. • The curve also rides directly under the events timeline, so a planet's rise lands right on the hours the sky is worth the most. Hover any bar for its hour and score. • The menu bar score now carries a miniature curve: the shape of the night, at a glance, all day. • Before sunset, the headline leads with the day's real events: a satellite crossing the Sun, targets on the solar disk, and when tonight begins. WEATHER, NOW FROM APPLE Conditions now come from Apple Weather, refreshed hourly with cloud layers, humidity, dew point, and wind, the same inputs as before from a first-party source built for the long haul. ABOUT SEEING The seeing and transparency numbers are gone, and honestly, they were never as good as they looked. They came from a free global forecast whose seeing model is not equally valid everywhere, and many of you wrote in to say the numbers did not match your sky. The providers who compute seeing properly price their data well beyond what a one-time purchase can support at this scale. Rather than keep showing a number I could not stand behind, that effort went into what you have actually been asking for: the hour-by-hour forecast above, which answers the real question, when tonight is worth going outside. ALSO • Great Red Spot transit times use a corrected, current longitude. • Sharper menu bar rendering, better light and dark mode behavior throughout, and a menu bar that recovers itself if macOS misplaces its icons. Clear skies.

A clearer Sun, Moon & Sky panel - Every row now starts in the same place and ends with the thing you came for. Times, dates, and readings all line up in one column down the right side, so you can scan the panel instead of reading it. - Solar Activity now looks like what it is: something you can open. It shows how many sunspot regions are on the disk and how many are worth pointing a telescope at, before you open it. A faint arrow used to be the only hint there was anything inside. - Open it and the detail sits in its own panel, so it is obvious which row it belongs to. The "checked at" line now stays put instead of moving when you expand. - The next eclipse and the next meteor shower are now proper rows with the date on the right, instead of one long dim sentence that wrapped onto a second line. - The aurora line shows tonight's forecast Kp figure on the right, with what it means for your site beside it. - The Sun safety reminder has its own line under the eclipse it belongs to, rather than trailing off the end of a wrapped sentence. - The two gold badges are now readable in Light mode. They did not have enough contrast against a white background before.

Solar activity, read like an observer. The Sun, Moon & Sky panel now answers the question solar imagers actually ask: is the Sun worth setting up for? A one line verdict ("Good solar targets", "Quiet Sun") sums up the day, and expanding it shows the regions that matter, ranked as targets: position on the disk in plain words, size, whether the region is growing, decaying, or recently flaring, and its 24 hour flare probability. The top ranked target is labeled, and the complete NOAA region list stays one tap away. Data comes from NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center as a daily snapshot, with its date always shown. An aurora forecast that knows where you live. A new line in the Sky section shows tonight's peak Kp forecast, interpreted for your location's geomagnetic latitude. An Alaska sky might read "aurora likely, possibly overhead" while a Gulf Coast sky honestly reads "faint at best, a camera target", and a quiet night simply says so. Always a probability, never a promise. Both readouts are on by default, can be turned off in Settings, and send no notifications. Bug fixes in this update: If an old copy of Transit is still running when a new one starts (for example, after deleting or updating the app while it was open), Transit now explains what is happening and how to fix it, instead of silently doing nothing. This could previously make Transit look impossible to reinstall until the Mac was restarted. If macOS cannot find room for Transit's icon in a crowded menu bar, Transit now opens its settings window so the app is always reachable, and shows which icons need room. Launching Transit while a copy is already running now brings the running copy forward instead of nothing happening.

SOLAR ACTIVITY, READ LIKE AN OBSERVER The Sun, Moon & Sky panel now answers the question solar imagers actually ask: is the Sun worth setting up for? A one line verdict ("Good solar targets," "Quiet Sun") sums up the day. Expanding it ranks the regions that matter as targets: position on the disk in plain words, size, whether the region is growing, decaying, or recently flaring, and its 24 hour flare probability. The top ranked target is labeled, and the complete NOAA region list stays one click away. Data comes from NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center as a daily snapshot, with its date always shown. This release covers sunspot regions and space weather. Prominences and filaments are a story for another one. AN AURORA FORECAST THAT KNOWS WHERE YOU LIVE A new line in the Sky section shows tonight's peak Kp forecast, interpreted for your location's geomagnetic latitude. An Alaska sky might read "aurora likely, possibly overhead." A Gulf Coast sky honestly reads "faint at best, a camera target." A quiet night simply says so. Always a probability, never a promise. ALSO IN THIS RELEASE Both new readouts are on by default and can be turned off in Settings, and neither sends notifications. The Sun, Moon & Sky settings now follow the panel's own order, and readability is improved throughout the solar surfaces.

Eclipses Transit now predicts lunar and solar eclipses, and it only speaks about your sky. - An eclipse appears only when it is visible from your location, titled by the kind you will actually see: a total eclipse on its distant path can honestly read "partial" from your backyard. - A solar eclipse row tells you the coverage at your site and the moment of maximum, for example "Covers 62% here, maximum 2:14 PM." A total lunar eclipse gives its totality window, start to end, in your site's own time. - On quiet days, a small line under Sun or Moon names the next eclipse your location will see, sometimes years ahead. The lead time is the point. - One notification per eclipse, timed to its maximum. Solar eclipse alerts ignore your night-hours quiet window (they are daytime events) and are never silenced by the altitude floor: a low sun during an eclipse is the dramatic case, not a skippable one. - Every solar eclipse surface carries the same warning: never look at the Sun without a certified solar filter. - Predictions are computed from the standard astronomical series and NASA's published eclipse elements, and validated against NASA's own tables. Credit to Fred Espenak, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center. Meteor showers The year's nine major showers, from the Quadrantids in January to the Geminids in December. - On a shower's peak night (and the night either side), a row shows the best viewing time for your sky and how much the Moon will interfere. - The hourly rate is honest for your location: the published ceiling is scaled down when the shower's radiant sits low in your sky, so the card never promises meteors your horizon cannot deliver. - The rest of the year, a quiet line names the next shower to peak, so you always know what is coming. - One notification per shower, on the peak night, gated by cloud cover like every other alert. Sun, Moon & Sky The Sun & Moon card grew into Sun, Moon & Sky, organized into three labeled sections: Sun (sunrise, sunset, solar eclipses), Moon (phase, moonrise, moonset, lunar eclipses), and Sky (meteor showers). Each section carries its own quiet what's-next line, and a section with nothing to show steps aside entirely. Fresher weather - Conditions refresh when you open a panel, not only on a fixed schedule, and again shortly after your Mac wakes from sleep. - If a check fails, Transit keeps showing the last good reading, marked with its time, and retries within minutes.

Meteor showers Transit now covers the year's nine major meteor showers, from the Quadrantids in January to the Geminids and Ursids in December. - On a shower's peak night (and the night either side), a row appears in the Sun, Moon & Sky card with the best viewing time for your sky and how much the Moon will interfere. - The hourly rate is honest for your location: the published ceiling is scaled down when the shower's radiant sits low in your sky, so the card never promises meteors your horizon cannot deliver. - The rest of the year, a quiet line names the next shower to peak and its date, so you always know what is coming. - One notification per shower, on the peak night, with your choice of lead time. It is gated by cloud cover like every other alert, and clicking it opens straight to the shower's row. - Peak nights appear on the Night Arc too, at the best viewing moment. Sun, Moon & Sky The Sun & Moon card and its settings pane are now Sun, Moon & Sky: home to sunrise, sunset, the Moon, and now meteor showers, with room for more sky events to come. Fresher weather - Conditions now refresh when you open a panel, not only on a fixed schedule. - After your Mac wakes from sleep, Transit re-checks the weather as soon as the network settles. - If a check fails, Transit keeps showing the last good reading, marked with its time, and retries within minutes instead of waiting for the next cycle.

Version 1.1.1 includes the following: Satellite passes now show their maximum altitude, so you can see at a glance how high the ISS and other satellites will climb above the horizon. A higher pass clears trees and rooftops and tends to be brighter, so this makes it easier to pick the passes worth stepping outside for. Transit now remembers your last location, so your sky and conditions appear the moment you open the app instead of waiting on a fresh fix. If locating ever gets stuck after a restart, the app now recovers on its own.

Satellite disk transits The rarest satellite event is now in Transit: the ISS or Tiangong crossing directly in front of the Sun or the Moon, a silhouette lasting under two seconds. - When a transit is coming up for your location, it appears under its satellite with the crossing time to the second, how long the silhouette lasts, and the direction it crosses. - Inside the final ten minutes, the row becomes a live countdown, so you can be focused and tracking before it starts. - A notification can warn you ahead of time (you choose how far ahead), and clicking it opens straight to the event. - Solar transits are daytime events, and Transit treats them that way: your night-hours quiet window does not silence them. Cloud cover still does, like everything else. Transits within driving distance A transit's visibility path is only a few kilometers wide, so one crossing your exact spot is rare luck. Transit now also lists crossings whose centerline passes within driving distance, with the distance and direction on the row ("centerline 41 mi NW"). The radius is yours to set, from 5 to 200 miles, or off entirely. Every prediction was validated against independent calculations before shipping. When the orbital data behind a prediction is aging, the row says so. Also in this release - Groundwork for future localization: every string in the app is now translation-ready. - The Help Book covers the new features.

Version 1.0.3 This update fixes two display bugs: - The Tonight panel could open collapsed to a small, scrolling sliver after your Mac woke from sleep, and took a while to recover. Fixed at the source: the panel no longer trusts screen measurements taken while it is closed, and re-measures the moment it opens. The reflow that keeps the panel on screen for smaller laptop displays still works exactly as before. - Menu bar icons and scores now render at the sharpness of the display they are actually shown on, and refresh immediately when you connect, disconnect, or rearrange displays. Previously they could look slightly soft on setups that mix Retina and non-Retina screens.

What's New in 1.0.2 This update focuses on the Tonight panel's layout. - The Tonight panel now uses a steady two-column layout. It no longer reshuffles into a single tall column or an extra-wide spread, and it stays put after your Mac sleeps or your display turns off. - On quiet nights the columns balance themselves: when only a planet or two is in play, Sun & Moon or Satellites slide under the Planets column so neither side runs long. - The overcast indicator moved to the top right of the Tonight panel, next to the updated time, where it no longer overlaps the night timeline. - In Settings, all seven planets are now listed together. Uranus and Neptune no longer hide behind a fold-out.

Transit 1.0.1 is a broad accuracy, trust, and polish pass across the whole app. More accurate satellite passes - Pass times and directions are computed with a corrected coordinate transform and full atmospheric drag modeling, now verified against reference implementations. Expect small shifts from 1.0; the new numbers are the right ones. - Your site's altitude now factors into predictions, with a new optional altitude field for manual locations. - Every visible pass is listed for each satellite, not just the best one, and only genuinely visible passes appear anywhere. - Add satellites from a new curated catalog, sorted brightest first, with verified magnitudes; or paste any NORAD number. The panel answers the night's question - A new verdict line sums up tonight: the best target and when it rises, a heads-up when seeing is poor, and how long the sky stays moonless. - Events appear only inside each planet's real observable window; planets too low to see say so plainly; planets whose window has ended dim to past tense. - The live NOW badge only appears while the object is genuinely above your horizon, re-checked every minute. - Every category panel gains a mini timeline with hover details; click any marker to jump to its row. - Before sunset, the panel tells you when tonight begins. Observe from anywhere - A manual location now follows its own timezone: every time in the panel and in notifications reads in site time, clearly labeled. - Save named locations and switch between them right from the panel header. - Changing location refreshes everything immediately, and weather is never shown for the wrong site. Menu bar, rebuilt - Panels open, close, and switch reliably with single clicks; click anywhere else to dismiss; right-click works too. And throughout - Dew spread respects your temperature unit. - Sharper, higher-contrast text everywhere. - Clearer settings copy, and a fully rewritten Help Book explaining how every number is computed. - Alerts pause automatically under overcast skies and resume when it clears. Clear skies.