Conditions has a new hour by hour view: the sky, cloud by layer and the chance of rain through the night, with the clear window now counting rain. Astronomer adds transparency and separate narrowband and broadband calls.

Closing the App Store sheet during a purchase now takes you back to the plans. Before, it showed an error asking you to restore purchases.

Switch the tray to Mosaic and ATLAS lays a grid of panels on the sky for a target larger than one frame. Set the columns, rows and overlap, tap a panel to skip it, see how many hours the whole mosaic takes, and send the panels to NINA at the mosaic's angle. Mosaics are part of Astronomer. Without it, Frame mode outlines the grid a target needs. Real structure behind the frame In Frame mode the Rosette Nebula now shows its own shape, drawn from an M102 Astro image of it, so you can see where your frame falls on the nebula itself. Also new Search for a target from inside Frame mode. Frame a target in Gear opens straight onto the sky. After a drag, the frame takes the name of the target you centered.

Frame any target Tap Frame on a target's card and the Sky view zooms to it with your camera's frame drawn at its real size, using the gear and corrector you set. Drag the sky to move the frame, twist to rotate it, and pinch to zoom. The tray shows the position angle, whether the target fits and how much of the long side it fills, and Align to target lays the frame along the target. Field stars to about magnitude 8 are drawn around it, so you can see what else falls in the frame. Save a framing and it stays drawn on the sky. Send to NINA now carries the frame's center and position angle. A target that is below the horizon opens at its best time tonight, and the field of view on each target's card is now free.

Tonight's targets, ranked by the night The list now ranks each target by its best six hours tonight and how many good hours it has in total, not by one moment at dusk. It also weighs the season, so on an October night from Chicago the Double Cluster, Andromeda and the Heart lead and the summer Cygnus targets drop back. Each card shows the best window, such as 9:10 PM to 3:10 AM, and a Prime season or Last weeks tag. Scores read a little lower than before, since they are relative to the night. Reducers and barlows Gear now has a Corrector step between your telescope and camera. Pick 0.8×, 0.75×, 0.7×, a 2× barlow or a flattener, or type the rated factor, and ATLAS shows the effective focal length, focal ratio, field of view and image scale. Scores and framing use it too. It works from the rated factor, so real spacing can shift the result a few percent. Send to NINA A target's card now has Send to NINA. It saves a file that NINA's simple sequencer can import and opens the share sheet, so you can AirDrop it, save it to Files or email it to the computer that runs your rig. On the web, the Targets export menu can also export tonight's top targets for NINA.

Astronomer, a new subscription ATLAS is still free, and the free version still does what it always did: tonight's best targets from your own sky, scored for your gear and your light pollution. Astronomer adds the twelve month imaging planner. Pick a target and see which nights of the next year it is actually reachable from where you stand, how many hours each night gives you, and which months are worth planning around. Free accounts see the best months for any target. Astronomer sees the rest. It also opens Universe view, which leaves the sky behind and puts every object at its real distance, so a constellation stops being a shape and becomes the scattered stars it actually is. $3.99 a month or $29.99 a year, and the first year is $19.99. Point at the sky Hold your phone up and ATLAS shows you what you are looking at, with the live camera behind the map if you want it. Nothing to set up: it finds north when it opens and then follows the phone, so the map stays where it should even near a building or a steel railing. If it ever looks off, center the Moon and tap it, and it corrects. Also in this release A calmer first launch, a time scrubber that reaches five years either way, a rebuilt Conditions page that reads as one night instead of three sections, and search that keeps up as you type.

This update improves location sharing and sign-in: - Location permission requests now display ATLAS correctly. - Your location permission is remembered when you close and reopen the app. - Signing in returns you to ATLAS.