Astrarium
Offline planetarium, sky atlas
Free
Set the place and the time, and see that sky. Everything runs on the device, so it all works where there is no signal.
Choose a place and a time, and Astrarium draws that sky. Every position is computed on the device, so the whole app works where there is no signal.
CATALOGUES (all bundled)
• 9,096 stars — Yale Bright Star Catalogue, to about magnitude 8: everything the naked eye can see
• 155 nebulae, clusters and galaxies — the Messier and Caldwell objects, with photographs and descriptions
• The 88 IAU constellations: 672 line segments and the classical figures
• The Milky Way, built from the integrated light of the Tycho-2 stars
• Planets and the Moon from JPL DE421, with surface maps, libration, lunar age and the traditional full-moon names
• 16 major meteor showers, the MPC observatory codes, observing sites worldwide
WHAT IT DOES
• Whole-sky and horizon views, pinch zoom down to a one-arcminute field
• Jump to any date, run the clock at up to 6000x, step by the synodic month
• Planet close-ups: apparent diameter, phase, geocentric and heliocentric distance, orbital elements, and the moons of Jupiter, Saturn and Mars — tap one for its own figures
• Meteor shower calendar: maximum in local time and UT, radiant altitude, moon conditions, and an expected hourly rate from the ZHR and the radiant altitude
• Satellites: fetch CelesTrak elements and watch the ISS or Tiangong cross the chart, with visible-pass predictions
• Comets and asteroids from the MPC and JPL, plotted on the chart
• Four coordinate grids, the ecliptic, celestial equator, galactic plane and meridian, and field-of-view frames for smart telescopes and camera lenses
• Switch each layer on its own: constellation lines and names, stars, star names, the Sun and planets, deep-sky objects, the Milky Way and the constellation figures — turn the stars off and the figures stand alone
• Limiting magnitude that follows twilight and moonlight, a red night-vision mode, PNG/PDF export, a captioned demo, screen recording, and spoken summaries
LOCATION
Your position is used only to compute the sky where you are, and never leaves the device. If you decline, pick a site from the list or type in the coordinates: nothing is lost.
No ads, no in-app purchases, no account. Every source and licence is listed in the app under Credits.
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• Your observing site, language and display switches are remembered, so the app opens where you left it — including coordinates you typed in by hand.
• Satellite element sets and comet/asteroid elements are now kept after you fetch them, so they are there offline next time.
• Added the galactic plane to the coordinate lines.
• Added "Long exposure": trails are no longer faded away, so diurnal motion builds up as it would on film.
• Star proper names are shown in katakana when the app is in Japanese.
• Tidied the line colours: the equatorial grid and celestial equator in red, the galactic grid and galactic plane in yellow-green, the meridian a thin grey dashed line.
• Sunlight and moonlight are now separate switches.
• "Planets" is now "Sun, Moon & planets", and the stars have a switch of their own.
• The View tab is reordered: objects, constellations, the sky itself, coordinate lines, then viewing aids.
• The site category "Overseas observatories" is now "World observatories".
• Constellation art is fetched in one go and appears at once; the seams between figures are filled, and in horizon view it is cut at the zenith.
• Zooming to a planet now draws it at its true size straight away, without waiting for the surface map.
• The demo tour gains three scenes: dozens of Starlink crossing a twilight sky, a long exposure, and the Messier objects M3, M13, M16 and M20 with their photographs and notes.
• While the tour runs, the button turns into a red "Stop demo" so you can leave it at any point.
• Fixed the horizon drifting off centre after zooming in on an object and back out in all-sky view.
• Fixed the blurred edge on the time-step buttons.
• A Mac edition is now available.
The developer, Shinsuke Abe, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
Accessibility
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Information
- Seller
- Shinsuke Abe
- Size
- 72.3 MB
- Category
- Education
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 17.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 17.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 13.0 or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English and Japanese
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2026 Shinsuke Abe a.k.a. Avell
