Astro Planner
Daniel Vilela Photography
Sun, moon, light pollution, Milky Way & aurora — plan your perfect shot.
- Downloads
- 5+
- on Google Play
- Price
- $4.99
- No in-app purchases
- Updated
- Aug 29
- 2026 · v1.0.4
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About Astro Planner
No ads. No tracking. No subscriptions. Pay once, use forever.
━━━ SUN & MOON ━━━
• Sun and moon rise/set times for any location
• Azimuth positions on an interactive compass dial
• Plan compositions with landmarks at the right moment
━━━ GOLDEN & BLUE HOUR ━━━
• Precise morning and evening golden-hour windows
• Blue-hour times for that deep-cool light
• Calculated for your exact location and date
━━━ MOON PHASE CALENDAR ━━━
• Full monthly calendar with phase icons and illumination %
• Find the darkest nights for deep-sky imaging
• Plan moonlit landscapes around the gibbous
━━━ LIGHT POLLUTION MAP ━━━
• Interactive map with Bortle-scale overlay
• Find dark skies near you, drive less
• Tap any location for its Bortle level
━━━ MILKY WAY VISIBILITY ━━━
• Galactic-center altitude over the next 24 hours
• Visibility window factoring twilight + moon brightness
• Know exactly when the core is up
━━━ AURORA TRACKER ━━━
• Real-time Kp index from NOAA SWPC
• 3-day forecast chart with observed + predicted
• "Visible at your latitude" verdict based on geomagnetic position
━━━ BUILT FOR PHOTOGRAPHERS ━━━
• Mostly offline — calculations run on-device (aurora needs internet)
• Dark theme — preserves your night vision in the field
• Date picker — plan days, weeks, or months ahead
• GPS for accurate data wherever you are
• Home screen Moon widget — phase, illumination, rise and set
• English and Portuguese
━━━ HOW IT WORKS ━━━
Astronomical calculations are powered by the astronomia Dart library — a port of Jean Meeus's Astronomical Algorithms, the gold standard for celestial position math. No scraping prayer-time websites. No dependency on external servers (except NOAA for live aurora data). Real math, running locally.
What’s new
Version 1.0.4 · Updated August 29, 2026
Astro Planner now speaks Portuguese — and Android finally gets the Moon widget. • The whole app is translated, with a language picker in Settings • A home screen Moon widget: phase, illumination, rise and set • Fixed a crash on launch in Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Iceland • Fixed the dark-sky map drawing over its own basemap • Times, dates and numbers follow the language you pick
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