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Welcome to Sky View Café NP

Sky View Café is an app that lets you see many types of astronomical information in both graphical and numerical form. You can see which stars and planets will be out tonight in the sky above your home town, see how the next solar or lunar eclipse will look from Los Angeles, or find out when the Moon rose over Sydney on your birthday ten years ago. Sky View Café includes star charts, a 3-D orrery, displays of the moons of Jupiter and Saturn, an astronomical event calendar, and many other features.

What's New / Version History

1.18.0 2023-01-15:Improved timezone selector. Fixed Calendar view text for Edge and similar browsers. Asteroid/comet updates.

1.17.0 2022-11-06: Major update with:

1.16.2 2022-09-25:GRS update, asteroid/comet updates, dependency updates.

1.16.1 2022-07-20: Fixed possible copy-to-clipboard bug for latitude/longitude. Updated/replaced/removed a number of expired web links in this site’s documentation.

1.16.0 2022-07-17: Map option for timezone overlay.

1.15.4 2022-07-07: Fix bug filling in timezone selector with initial timezone.

1.15.3 2022-06-28: Search improvements. Updated asteroid/comet data.

1.15.2 2022-06-17: Graphics improvements.

1.15.1 2022-06-05: Minor adjustments for use of new back-end API.

1.15.0 2022-05-28: Greatly improved rendering of Moon, using WebGL and displaying effects of libration. Browser compatibility checking.

1.14.8 2022-05-14: Fixed bug in drawing lunar eclipse shadows on high pixel density displays. (I definitely need more user feedback! This bug must have existed since 2018-08-13.)

1.14.7 2022-04-30: Fixed iOS keyboard input bug caused by iOS update.

1.14.6 2022-01-15: Added an option to change the first day of the week for calendars from the locale default day. Updated star catalog.

1.14.5 2021-12-20: Fixed restoration of previous user settings. General updates for timezones, GRS, asteroid/comet data.

1.14.4 2021-10-03: Update for iOS 15 issues. Update GRS data.

1.14.3 2021-07-31: Minor style improvements for new time/angle entry widgets.

1.14.2 2021-07-28: Fix other background color issues for iOS Safari.

1.14.1 2021-07-27: Fix floating clock background for iOS Safari.

1.14.0 2021-07-27: Major update with:

1.13.1 2021-06-30: GRS update, dropped support for older web browser which don’t support at least ES6 JavaScript.

1.13.0 2021-06-05: Asteroid/comet updates, dependency updates.

1.12.4 2021-05-05: Update dependencies.

1.12.3 2021-04-25: Fix Safari compatibility issue.

1.12.2 2021-04-20: Fix spurious view dragging. Dependency updates, updated GRS.

1.12.1 2021-03-01: Fix dropdown calendar formatting on Safari.

1.12.0 2021-02-23: Add UTC-offset option for timezone selection. Fix side panel help links.

1.11.0 2021-02-21: Updated timezones to 2021a. Improved drop-down calendar. Updated delta-T, GRS, and provided long-overdue asteroid and comet updates too.

1.10.2 2020-10-13: Updated timezones to 2020b.

1.10.1 2020-08-01: Fix atlas bug.

1.10.0 2020-07-21: Updated delta-T, GRS, asteroids, and comets. Updated timezones to 2020a.

1.9.0 2019-10-24: Updated GRS, asteroids, and comets. Updated timezones to 2019c. Made Orbit View rotation persistent.

1.8.4, 2019-07-11: Fixed incorrect display of Local Mean Time in Time panel.

1.8.3, 2019-07-10: Updated optional iOS native date/time input method.

1.8.2, 2019-07-10: Minor change to accommodate geographic search ratings higher than 9.

1.8.0, 1.8.1, 2019-07-07: Added option (off by default) to use native iOS or Android touch interface for date/time input. Updated timezone database to 2019b.

1.7.3, 2019-06-16: Minor Google Maps updates.

1.7.2, 2019-06-12: Updated access to Google Maps. Regained ability to support Internet Explorer 11 and other ES5-level web browsers.

1.7.1, 2019-06-12: Fixed broken support for Edge web browser. Fixed touch interface access to clock, latitude, and longitude.

1.7.0, 2019-06-09: Updated to use Angular 8, and to use ES6 (ES2015) for up-to-date web browsers. Internet Explorer and other older browsers are no longer supported.

1.6.0, 2019-06-08: Various behind-the-scenes updates.

1.5.0, 2019-04-18: Updated GRS data and UTC conversion, made changes needed for full functionality via HTTPS.

1.4.14, 2018-08-14: Added quick drawing mode for Orbits view. Added speed metrics.

1.4.13, 2018-08-13: Increased graphics resolution for high resolution displays. Added quick, lower-resolution drawing mode for slow devices. Added three-finger gesture for escaping "zoom traps".

1.4.12, 2018-08-09: Fixed bug where Table view could be left blank until options changed.

1.4.11, 2018-08-08: Improved adaptation to different screen and window sizes.

1.4.10, 2018-08-06: Added touch zoom to Orbits and Moons/GRS views. Improved mobile keyboard input.

1.4.9, 2018-08-04: Fixed ecliptic and celestial grid lines sometimes being too faint. Improved consistency of font for astronomical symbols. Fixed confirmation dialog for Save dialog.

1.4.8, 2018-07-30: Fixed problems with one keyboard's too-rapid autorepeat.

1.4.7, 2018-07-30: Made pointing with a tablet pen work. Cleaned up console errors.

1.4.6, 2018-07-29: Early steps at making SVC more mobile tablet-friendly. Improved info marquee.

1.4.5, 2018-06-20: Internal code changes.

1.4.4, 2018-05-12: Updated timezone database to 2018e, updated GRS, reduced "shudder" that could occur when initially selecting a previously unseen tab panel.

1.4.3, 2018-03-25: Updated timezone database to 2018d.

1.4.2, 2018-03-22: Updated atlas search dialog, improved layout, focus, and formatting of other dialogs.

1.4.1, 2018-02-28: Restored support for Internet Explorer.

1.4.0, 2018-02-26: Added full-screen mode.

1.3.15, 2018-02-21: Fixed formatting of timezone description in atlas dialog.

1.3.14, 2018-02-21: Minor bug fixes, code update.

1.3.13, 2018-02-12: Fixed bug in display of Jupiter and the Great Red Spot in the Moons view.

1.3.12, 2018-02-06: Mostly internal code changes, with one minor cosmetic update and a new link added to the GitHub code repository.

1.3.11, 2018-02-02: Fixed bug where location could be saved with blank name, and the list of saved locations was not updated for deleted items.

1.3.10, 2018-01-30: Fixed problems related to days that have two midnights. (This can occur when clocks are turned back to midnight.)

1.3.9, 2018-01-23: Updated timezone data to version 2018c, extended to the year 2500, kept Europe/Dublin timezone from 2018b.

1.3.8, 2018-01-21: Updated timezone data to version 2018b, extended to 2050, added handing for negative/winter Daylight Saving Time, eliminated "calendar rollbacks" from timezone data. Updated delta-T and GRS longitude.

1.3.7, 2018-01-06: Extended timezone data to 2037.

1.3.6, 2018-01-01: Made some adjustments to historical timezone support.

1.3.5, 2017-12-31: Added preliminary version of Table view. Improved timezone support.

1.3.0, 2017-11-28: Added printing support.

1.2.2, 2017-11-11: Updated to use Angular 5.0.

1.2.1, 2017-10-29: Fixed Edge/Internet Explorer Calendar layout issues.

1.2.0, 2017-10-29: Added daily moon phase and daily daylight duration to Calendar view.

1.1.2, 2017-10-24: Fixed text overflow in atlas dialog and Firefox layout of atlas dialog.

1.1.1, 2017-10-21: Fixed flickering marquee in Firefox (and related performance issue).

1.1.0, 2017-10-16: Added asteroids and comets.

1.0.4, 2017-07-30: Added Milky Way display to Sky view.

1.0.3, 2017-07-29: Added anaglyph 3-D option for Orbits view. Sky view's facing display now matches azimuth style preference setting.

1.0.2, 2017-07-23: Faster client-side event finder. "Growl"-style event messages. Full event functionality for OS timezone.

1.0.1, 2017-07-15: Fixed bug with OS and Local Mean Time timezones.

1.0.0, 2017-07-14: First release.


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