Clearer Nights Ahead with Scope Nights Astronomy Weather...
Scope Nights helps stargazers, astronomers, and astrophotographers find the clearest, darkest skies. Instead of analysing conventional weather forecasts yourself, Scope Nights does the work for you, showing exactly when and where conditions will be best for observing the night sky.
"Every amateur astronomer yearns for clear, dark skies, and this exhaustive app helps you find them." - Sky At Night Magazine
"Scope Nights has become my favorite… it does a fine job of summarizing the data in a clear and understandable fashion." - Sky & Telescope Magazine
Plan Your Observing
• Smart stargazing ratings with animated weather icons
• Custom thresholds for moon phase, wind, humidity, and temperature
• Compare conditions across your favourite observing sites
Find Dark Sky Sites
• Detailed light pollution map from NASA satellite data
• Certified dark sky places, observatories, and robotic telescopes
Detailed Global Forecasts
• Long‑range forecasts worldwide (up to 7 nights, 7 locations)
• Local forecasts for UK & USA direct from Met Office & NOAA
• Night‑time specific data: cloud cover, moon phase, humidity, wind, temperature, sunrise/sunset, moonrise/moonset
Notifications & Sharing
• Custom alerts for good observing conditions before sunset
• App badge showing tonight’s best sites
• Share astronomy weather reports with friends or observatories
Requirements
• iOS 15 or later
• Internet connection (Wi-Fi or cellular)
• Location Services to provide local stargazing forecasts and notifications. No personal data is collected, and no tracking occurs.
• Background Services for local notifications. Notifications are used only to alert you about good stargazing conditions, they are not used for advertising or tracking.
Scope Nights is independently developed. Your reviews and ratings help sustain future updates for the stargazing community.
I really love this app. Although I don't use it for scoping, but for Astrophotography, it perfectly meets my needs 😊 However, there are some issues I have experienced and suggestions that I would like to share:There seems to be a mistake with the coordinates for latitudes and longitudes for Observatories and Dark Sky Sites. Please check the numbers, there seems to be a comma missing. I always get an error when trying to add one of these locations to my scope sites.For the saved locations it would be nice to implement a toggle function for enabling/disabling certain locations. When I'm at home I don't need to see my holiday destination forecasts, especially when using the "Best all night star gazing" function. I only what to see the scoping sites that are close to me. I also don't want to type in my holiday destinations everytime I'm traveling so this would be a good way to keep the locations saved without interfering with favorite spots around me.For the Dark Sky Map it would be awesome if a cloud coverage function would be added. Thereby it would be easier to search for random spots where the night sky is dark and clear to go scoping/shoot.For some locations there seems to be a problem with recognizing the name. Currently you have to sometimes select something that is close to the original location that you were trying to save. Maybe a flexible location pinpoint that you can drag around could solve this problem? One could thereby exactly mark the location where you want to scope/shoot.Overall I think that this is a wonderful app! Beautiful design and stable performance - great job! I hope that the developer tries to work with this feedback, in case it is realizable, and would welcome some of the above mentioned improvements/elimination of bugs. I rarely write reviews, but this app really amazed me. Keep up the great work! 💪🏻
Bietet zu wenig
Dimi (blogbucheintrag)
Die kostenlose App Sky Live bietet genauso viel, ist übersichtlicher und kostenlos und GoodToStargaze bietet deutlich mehr Informationen. Leider nicht wirklich gut
Ideal zur Planung
IOtaist
Macht was sie soll und ist recht verlässlich
Keine Wetterdaten verfügbar.
Lewin L.
Die App kann auf keine Wetterdaten zugreifen, daher funktioniert der beworbene Forecast zur Himmelsbeobachtung nicht. Überhaupt nicht!Der Anbieter weist auf das Problem sogar, bzw. nur auf seiner Homepage hin, verlangt hier aber volles Geld.Thema an Apple gemeldet.Karte der Lichtverschmutzung funktioniert…wer‘s braucht.App ist für mich absolut nutzlos.
Scope Nights 2.6 Update:
• Optimized for iOS 26 and the latest iPhone and iPad models
• Smoother planning with improved stability and performance
• Higher-resolution data for national and global astronomy forecasts
• Refreshed listings for Dark Sky Places, Observatories, and Robotic Telescopes
• Fixed global forecast outage
• UI refinements and general bug fixes
Scope Nights is independently developed. Your reviews and ratings help sustain future updates for the stargazing community.
Version 2.6.0
Das Entwicklungsteam, Martin Dodd, hat darauf hingewiesen, dass die Datenschutzrichtlinien der App den unten stehenden Umgang mit Daten einschließen können. Weitere Informationen findest du in den Datenschutzrichtlinien des Entwicklungsteams .
Keine Daten erfasst
Der Entwickler erfasst keine Daten von dieser App.
Die Datenschutzpraktiken variieren beispielsweise abhängig von den verwendeten Funktionen und von deinem Alter. Weitere Infos
Bedienungshilfen
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Kompatibilität
Erfordert iOS 15.0 oder neuer.
iPhone Erfordert iOS 15.0 oder neuer.
iPad Erfordert iPadOS 15.0 oder neuer.
iPod touch Erfordert iOS 15.0 oder neuer.
Mac Erfordert macOS 12.0 (oder neuer) und einen Mac mit Apple M1-Chip (oder neuer).
Martin Dodd hat sich als Händler für diese App ausgewiesen und bestätigt, dass dieses Produkt oder diese Dienstleistung dem Recht der Europäischen Union entspricht.
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