Three new ways to use your sky. • Twin Sky: compare the sky at two different times, with linked direction and zoom or independent cameras. • Guided observing sessions: work through your saved targets, prioritise those becoming low sooner, and explicitly mark observations or skip ahead. • Nightstand: a dimmable bedside clock over the real-time sky, with Moon phase, weather, red night vision and screen-awake control. • On Duo, native fold margins separate sky and instrument panes. Adaptive layouts also support iPad and ordinary iPhone windows. Also includes altitude comparisons, saved observing plans, field notes and improved access to sky tools. Nightstand is designed for landscape table use with the hinge at the top, keeping clock and weather over the sky on the facing display. Both landscape directions are supported.

BUILT FOR iPHONE DUO — AND THE SKY NO LONGER DISAPPEARS WHEN YOU TAP IT. On a big screen — a Duo's inner display, an iPad, a Mac — tapping a star used to slide a card up over the very thing you were looking at. Not any more. A PANEL BESIDE THE SKY, NOT OVER IT Tap anything and its details open in a column down one side. The sky stays live the whole time: keep panning, keep pinching, keep tapping. Everything lands in the panel — objects, constellations, Tonight, Nova, search, the lot. The clever bit is what the sky does about it. As the panel opens, the whole sky quietly re-aims so that what you tapped ends up centred in the part you can still see, rather than hiding behind the panel. Stars keep drifting along behind the glass, because a star field cut off with a straight edge looks like a bug. Left-handed? Settings → Detail panel → Side → Left. Or turn the whole thing off and have your bottom sheet back. FOLD IT AND THE LAYOUT FOLLOWS Half-fold an iPhone Duo and Stargazer reads the hinge and lays itself out along it, so nothing ever sits in the crease. Hold it like a book and the sky takes one page and the details take the other, split exactly on the fold. Stand it on a table like a tiny laptop and it splits the other way: live sky on the half you are looking at, a planetarium console on the half lying flat. The console lists everything above the horizon right now, brightest first, with how high and which way to look. Tap any of it to lock on. Tonight, Search, Nova and time travel sit under your thumb. It is the closest thing to an observatory console you can fit on a camping table, and it is very hard to stop fiddling with. No Duo? Tabletop is a button. Prop any phone or iPad against a mug and you get the same two panes. ALSO • The toolbars, compass and controls now move aside for the panel instead of hiding beneath it • With something locked on, the rest of the app stays reachable rather than greying out • The tool column reshapes itself on short screens instead of running off the bottom edge

TONIGHT AT A GLANCE The question every stargazer actually asks is not "when does Saturn rise" — it's "when should I go outside?" Answering that meant holding five rise times and the darkness window in your head at once. So here is the whole night in one picture. A bar for the Moon and each planet showing exactly when it's above the horizon, laid over a band marking true astronomical darkness, with a line showing right now. Read down the line to see what's up this minute. Read across to find the hour when the most things overlap — that's when to go out. Tap any bar to jump straight to it. AR ON iPAD, PROPERLY THIS TIME The AR Sky Window had a bad habit on iPad: the camera feed came through rotated a quarter turn, because it was hardcoded to portrait and an iPad is usually held sideways. It now follows however you're holding it, and re-orients when you turn it. And if the camera can't start — another app has it, or the device hasn't got one — Stargazer now says so plainly instead of quietly showing you a very dark rectangle and letting you wonder whether the button worked. ALSO • Faster Tonight sheet • Object names on the timeline stay put instead of sliding off the edge Clear skies.

THE MOON, THE RIGHT WAY UP Here is a thing almost every star app gets wrong: the Moon does not look the same from everywhere. From Australia it hangs "upside down" compared with the pictures in northern textbooks — a crescent lit on the right in London is lit on the left in Melbourne. Stargazer now draws it tilted exactly as it appears from wherever you are standing, worked out from your latitude and where the Moon is in the sky this minute. Tap FLIP if you'd rather match a photo or a telescope that turns the image over. DRAG THE MOON THROUGH TIME Minutes, hours, days or a whole month. Scrub by month and watch it fill and empty. Scrub by minutes and watch something stranger: the phase barely changes, but the Moon slowly turns as it crosses the sky. Kids notice this immediately. Tap the Moon for a big one — pinch to zoom right in on the craters, then share it. IS IT REALLY BIGGER TONIGHT? Supermoons are always announced and never obvious, because a 7% difference is invisible without something to compare against. So now there is something: the Moon is drawn at its true size for tonight, with a dashed ring showing its average. Plus its distance in kilometres, and how big it looks in arcminutes. SPIN THE EARTH A new globe with all 677 satellites currently in orbit, wrapped around a spinnable, zoomable Earth. Search for one — type "hubble", or "starlink" to watch 500 of them swarm past in formation. Tap any of them for its altitude and how many times a day it laps the planet. READING THE SEASON Tonight now shows what the Boorong sky is signalling this month. In August: Neilloan means the mallee fowl are on their nests, and Tchingal the Emu stands up in the south. ALSO • Searching "southern cross" finally finds the Southern Cross. Also the Big Dipper, the Saucepan, the Teapot, the Seven Sisters and the Pointers • A short walkthrough the first time you open the app — six steps, skip whenever you like • VoiceOver labels throughout, and text that grows with your accessibility settings • The Sky Quiz now asks about the Boorong sky too

READING THE SEASON Tonight now shows you what the sky is saying this month in the Boorong reading. Right now, in August: Marpeankurrk marks the season for gathering bittur; Neilloan means the mallee fowl are on their nests; Tchingal the Emu stands up in the south. A star used as a calendar — which is exactly what the Australian Curriculum asks students to understand about First Nations seasonal knowledge. Only figures with a documented window appear. Nothing is guessed. SEARCH ACTUALLY FINDS CONSTELLATIONS Searching "southern cross" used to return nothing at all — constellations were not searchable, and Crux never calls itself the Southern Cross. Now it finds Crux, by nickname, IAU name or abbreviation. It also finds Bunya, Berm-berm-gle and Tchingal, because in the Boorong sky those same four stars are a tree with a possum up it. Big Dipper, the Plough, the Saucepan, the Teapot, the Seven Sisters and the Pointers all work too. THE SKY QUIZ NOW TEACHES THE BOORONG SKY New questions across all three levels: which star is Neilloan, what Tchingal is made from, and what the Boorong read from Lyra rising in March. Every answer names the nation it came from.

A FIRST NATIONS SKY Stargazer can now show you the Boorong sky instead of the Greek and Roman constellations. The Boorong are a clan of the Wergaia language group of north-western Victoria, and in 1857 a Boorong family at Lake Tyrrell shared some forty star names and figures with William Stanbridge, who wrote that they "pride themselves upon knowing more of astronomy than any other tribe". • 27 figures with their original artwork, each named in language with the English meaning underneath • TCHINGAL, THE EMU — a dark constellation, made not from stars but from the starless dust lanes of the Milky Way. Its head is the Coalsack beside the Southern Cross and it stretches about 90° across the sky, far larger than any Greek figure. You need a dark sky to see it, and once you have, you cannot unsee it. • Star names switch to language too — Vega becomes Neilloan the mallee fowl, Sirius becomes Warepil the wedge-tailed eagle • Tap any figure for what it is, where to look, and what it was used for. Neilloan rising in March means the mallee fowl are building their nests; when it sets in October the eggs are ready to collect. Choose it under Layers → Sky Culture. The Greek sky remains the default. This is one nation's sky, not a pan-Indigenous one — there are hundreds of distinct First Nations traditions and they do not agree with each other, which is part of what makes them worth seeing. ALSO NEW • A short first-run walkthrough of what each control does — six steps, skippable, and re-runnable any time from Settings • Constellations are far easier to select: tapping a figure's name or its artwork now selects the figure instead of an invisible catalogue object behind it

ALL 88 CONSTELLATIONS, up from 13 — each with classic hand-painted artwork that lights up as you turn toward it, like glass lit from within. FOR CLASSROOMS • Printable star chart — a proper A4 planisphere for your date and place, ready to hand out • Sky Quiz — three levels, from Explorer to Astronomer, with "show me in the sky" on every answer FOR PHOTOGRAPHERS • Night photography planner — astronomical darkness, the moonless window, when the Milky Way core rises, and how long you can expose before the stars trail ALSO NEW • Ask Siri: "what's the moon phase", "what's up tonight", or how many moons Saturn has • New Lock Screen and Home Screen widgets for the Moon and the daily fact • Nova now answers reference questions exactly — sizes, distances, moons, temperatures, and comparisons like "which is bigger, Jupiter or Saturn" • A far richer Milky Way with the Great Rift, the Coalsack and the great star clouds • Move and resize objects placed in AR, and tap anything through the camera to identify it • Brighter stars below the horizon, so looking "through" the Earth is worth doing • Fixed: "Another fact" no longer repeats the same subject twice in a row