Star & Planet Finder

Star & Planet Finder scores 79 out of 100: rating 74, rating count 74, App Store search rank 68, update recency 100. The four parts are averaged with no weights, and B tier follows from that score within this list. The full explanation, as data.

Point your iPhone at the sky. Follow the arrow. Lock on. Star & Planet Finder 7 is rebuilt from scratch: live AR pointing, a 3D Earth globe, and more than 10,000 satellites from your location - ISS, Hubble, Tiangong, Starlink trains, Iridium flares, NASA close approaches, and the Messier catalog. --------------------------------- REVIEWS --------------------------------- “I have dabbled with astronomy for 30 years, star maps, celestial co-ordinates, Patrick Moore’s year book but this app renders them all obsolete. It makes locating stars and planets child’s play!” “Got a telescope for Christmas and hated not knowing what I was looking at. This app made stargazing a million times better for me and my kids!” “Any astronomer knows the computational power needed for these algorithms. And the iPhone sensors are up to the task. Unique.” --------------------------------- WHAT YOU CAN DO --------------------------------- • Follow a live AR arrow to any planet, star, constellation, satellite, galaxy or near-Earth asteroid • Identify what’s in front of the camera - names appear as you pan • AR for everything, including a live orbit streak on the camera so you see where the satellite i