Xasteria Plus - Astro Weather 4+
Forecasts for stargazers
Dimitrios Kechagias
Designed for iPad
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- £0.99
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Description
Xasteria+ aims to give you quick access to all the weather forecasts & tools you might need in a single app - especially made for those with an interest in the night sky.
It adds the Apple Weather and MET Norway weather sources, and several extra tools and features to the free Xasteria app and was made primarily to fund the 7Timer weather forecast servers. Why not try the free version of Xasteria first - it is completely free with no ads - if you like it, you can support the service by getting Xasteria+ which comes with many extra features:
-Apple Weather configurable hourly/hyperlocal world forecast.
-MET Norway configurable hourly world forecast with cloud layer option.
-Night-vision mode (choice of red/green/blue) with dimmer.
-Lunar Calendar with Sun/Moon graphs and rise/set/twilight.
-Location Manager with choice of location sources (online search, offline database, maps) and access to GPS accuracy/elevation and barometer data (for iPhones/iPads with barometer sensor).
-Solar Eclipses: Find all future Solar Eclipses for any location and simulate them.
-Landscape display mode ability extends to iPhone/iPod.
As with the free version of Xasteria, you get a customizable world forecast from the ASTRO/7Timer service which provides:
-Cloud cover.
-Astronomical seeing.
-Atmospheric transparency.
-Temperature & Humidity.
-Rain/Snow.
-Atmospheric instability.
-Wind Speed & Direction.
Apple Weather and MET Norway forecasts add visibility, dew point and more.
Xasteria provides you with a choice of 3 visualization modes for the data: an icon/graphic display based on 7Timer's ASTRO, the color-stripe graphics similar to some other astro-forecast services and a raw text mode.
Additional features:
-Quick access to selected astro-weather web sources like Clear Outside, Meteoblue, Windy, Astrospheric, Sat24.com, the latest water vapor satellite images and animations, as well as the nearest Clear Sky Charts.
-Light pollution report/maps for your location.
-ISS and bright satellite passes for your location (data from heavens-above.com).
Xasteria is available in English, Greek, German and French. If you would like to translate it to your own language, please contact the author.
I would appreciate a quick review on the App Store if you are using the app (there will be no popup asking you in the app as I hate those). If you have a specific request/suggestion you can also try the official app page at http://astro.ecuadors.net
What’s New
Version 4.9
Please support the app by rating or reviewing! You will never get any annoying in-app popups asking you to do so.
Here's what's new:
- Light Pollution Map added as an extra button under "Other" sources (some new users had trouble finding it) and fixed light pollution source data selection.
- Increased contrast blue text in weather view and other tweaks.
- German language fixes.
Ratings and Reviews
Spot on app with loads of information
Like the other reviewer here I found the free version of this app awesome in fact I would of been happy to pay for the free version ☺️ the only request I would make would to be able to have the main screen full size or the location tab to be smaller or fold away, as I use auto location it’s a massive area of dead space, but it’s definitely not a deal breaker
Developer Response ,
Hello. Thanks for the feedback, you could write to me via the contact page on the Xasteria page (or even a comment on the page) about how you would want to use extra vertical space and on what device. For most devices I would think the vertical space is reasonably comfortable - horizontal would be more useful to see a bigger "time slice". But yeah, some feedback on that from users helps develop the app further.
Edit: You are probably enjoying v4.0 which allows expanding the weather view ;)
Good app
I like this app a lot but would love it more if there was a way to get an automatic notification based on there being favourable star-gazing conditions expected during the coming night.
Developer Response ,
Admittedly, it is the most asked-for feature. I have refrained so far because I dislike notifications if they are not super-relevant myself, and that's something quite hard to do right with a subject such as weather forecast. I will look into it, but no promises ;)
Great app
It told me there were no clouds but seeing was crap which was bang on at the time so upgraded to plus version
Developer Response ,
Thanks for the review, but, remember, getting the weather right once for the UK does not mean you can blindly rely on weather predictions :D I am speaking as a fellow UK resident ;) On a more serious note, the 7Timer! seeing prediction is usually quite accurate, clouds are harder to predict. For same-day cloud-prediction, the Dark Sky might be more accurate as it is calculated more often.
App Privacy
The developer, Dimitrios Kechagias, 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 Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Location
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Information
- Provider
- Dimitrios Kechagias
- Size
- 9.1 MB
- Category
- Weather
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 12.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 12.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 12.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English, French, German, Greek
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2020 D Kechagias
- Price
- £0.99
Supports
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Family Sharing
Up to six family members can use this app with Family Sharing enabled.