Updated for iOS 26 - Scope Nights helps you find the clearest, darkest skies for stargazing on the latest iPhone and iPad devices.
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’ve been using this app since it came out and I do rely on it but the weather info provided to the app is not as accurate as I would wish. I now find myself cross checking with other sources of met data to see what the consensus is.But my biggest problem now is that the app no longer scales to my iPad Pro. This presents itself as the app screen is too big to fit on my iPad screen. So crucial boxes such as the search box is almost impossible to access. I reinstalled the app but it made no difference. I contacted the developer but have not received any reply.
Excellent Stargazing App :-)
Dinkydave100
Probably the most used App which I have on my phone. It is the most accurate App I have used for predicting if I am going to be getting my scope out during the next few nights, and although I do not really believe what it is telling me in more than fours nights time, I think this is true for any weather forecasting. Would recommend to anyone into Stargazing and one of the upgrades, which gives you a 'Dark Sky' map, is handy when you are travelling and want to find an area to visit with some binos.
Potentially Excellent - Seems Glitchy
RichPBizkit
It is possibly a quirk of the iPhone X, but when I run this app it seems to populate my Scope Sites list with the exact same site 20 or so times no matter how many times I delete them. When I then try to add a site I want on my list it tells me the list is full and I have to delete one before I can add any more. Because of this, I can’t look at the weather for the actual places I want to go to, just have to look at the nearest on on my list and hope. Am I doing something wrong or is it a latest version of IOS issue?? Please help, I love the functionality but this issue is killing my enthusiasm for the otherwise great app!
App is dead
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Purchased this app expecting a great weather app. Unfortunately it no longer works, only provides a weeks weather which is no good as we know weather changes. The developers Facebook page informs customers of this issue and that was a posted a year ago with no change. There is no information on the App Store and If you purchase this app and want your money back apple won’t give it back. Had to put a claim in through PayPal which I won.
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
The developer, Martin Dodd, 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.
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Information
Provider
Martin Dodd
Size
177.7 MB
Category
Weather
Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 15.0 or later.
iPod touch Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.