Tonight's sky, from where you stand
Positions of the Sun, Moon and planets for your place, how dark it gets and the cloud forecast.
The night at a glance
What will you look with?
Everything worth a look tonight, whatever you have.
Where will you look from?
Tonight's specials
Open the sky map →The full menu
Your sky tonight
Full sky map →Tap a star, planet or cluster to name it.
The edge of the circle is your horizon, the centre is straight overhead. The bright patch is the part you can see (My view).
Up high tonight
Coming up
Full calendar →Explore
Any sky, any century
Look around tonight's sky, or wind time back to Stonehenge, Babylon or Tycho's supernova.
What's coming, from here
Meteor showers with honest hourly counts, eclipses, close planet pairs — rated for your place.
Only a window?
Tell us where it faces. We'll tell you what passes through it and when.
13 000 deep-sky objects
Messier, Caldwell, NGC, IC and bright stars, with photos and when to see them tonight.
9 000 craters and seas
The real phase and tilt for your place, with what to look at along the terminator tonight.
A 3D model you can fly
Real positions of planets and moons from 3000 BC to AD 3000, with eclipse shadows.
Telescopes, honestly
What each instrument really shows — and when binoculars are the better buy.
5 000 years of skywatching
From Stonehenge to Webb, each moment with a link to the sky as it was.
What StarsMenu does
Most sky apps show you a map. StarsMenu answers a different question: is it worth going outside tonight, and what will I actually see from here? It works out how dark your night gets, when the Moon is up, what the cloud forecast says, and which planets, clusters, nebulae and galaxies are well placed — sorted into a simple menu by time of night.
If you observe from a window or a balcony, set up My view once. From then on every list shows only what passes through your patch of sky, with the times it does. Your place and your view stay on your device: there are no accounts and no tracking.